Appeal 2006-3219
Application 10/122,270
The language of claim 14 specifies, in product-by-process format, any
automotive part that can be obtained by molding from a plurality of any
manner of blanks, including any length, width and depth, that include at least
two layers of blanks, each of the layers having any manner of woven mat
made of tows that contain any manner of fibers commingled with any
manner and amount of thermoplastic resin material, regardless of the manner
in which the part is molded or otherwise prepared from the blanks. See
generally, In re Thorpe, 777 F.2d 695, 697, 227 USPQ 964, 966 (Fed. Cir.
1985).
The claimed part comprises at least any manner of central shock-
absorbing portion. The part further “is adapted” in any manner to be
attached to an automotive vehicle through any manner of a pair of
attachment locations spaced apart a predetermined distance of any length,
however short, and either horizontally or vertically. Indeed, in the body of
the claim, the part further comprises at least the said spaced apart pair of
attachment locations as “portions” further having fixation points or holes
and connected to the central shock-absorbing portion.
The part still further comprises at least any manner of two
thermoplastic reinforced fiber “structures,” each formed by any manner of
“woven mats” made of tows that contain any manner of woven fibers wetted
by said any manner of thermoplastic resin material. The “woven mats,” and
thus, the “structures,” “at least partially forms to any extent the central
shock-absorbing portion and the pair of attachment portions, and
continuously extends between the attachment portions to link the attachment
portions.” The “woven mats” can be the same “woven mats” forming the
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