Appeal No. 2006-1955
Application No. 10/818,060
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a self-contained refrigeration unit
designed to be installed in suitable receiving recesses in a truck or trailer
refrigeration body (present specification, p. 1). Claim 1, the only independent
claim pending in the application, reads as follows:
1. A refrigeration system comprising:
at least one refrigeration unit comprising,
an evaporator;
a condenser communicating a refrigerant to said
evaporator;
a compressor communicating said refrigerant to
said condenser;
a casing of a predetermined size supporting at least
said evaporator and said condenser;
a frame on a vehicle refrigeration compartment,
having an opening of about said predetermined size to
receive said casing wherein said refrigerant is
substantially communicated within said casing; and
said casing being removable as a unit with said
condenser and said evaporator.
The examiner relies upon the following as evidence of unpatentability:
Crongeyer US 4,196,657 Apr. 8, 1980
Aldrich US 4,641,502 Feb. 10, 1987
Borges US 5,878,592 Mar. 9, 1999
The appellants seek review of the examiner’s rejections of claims 1-4 and 6-
8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Aldrich in view of
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