Appeal No. 2006-1166
Application No. 09/994,257
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1, 16, 50 and 51 over Sipin in view of Van der Pol, and
claims 32 and 33 over Sipin in view of Van der Pol and Bitto.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections. The appellants do
not separately argue any of the dependent claims, including
claims 32 and 33 to which an additional reference is applied. We
therefore limit our discussion to the sole independent claim,
i.e., claim 1.
Sipin discloses a “mass flow meter in which a conduit with
supported ends is vibrated in a direction transverse to the plane
of the conduit, and the force couple about an axis orthogonal to
the longitudinal axis of the conduit and also to the direction of
vibration is sensed as a measure of the mass flow rate through
the conduit” (col. 2, lines 10-16). The conduit is vibrated with
respect to a housing (74) by an electromagnetic driver (84), and
the inlet and outlet deflections of the conduit with respect to
the housing are detected by displacement sensors (86, 88)
(col. 6, lines 10-15).
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