Appeal 2007-0756
Application 10/652,853
taken. The Examiner does not assert that the dashed-line squares are
both the pumps and the suction ports of the pump. Rather, we
understand the Examiner’s position to be that the suction ports are
disposed someplace along the periphery of the dashed-line squares, as
this is the place where the hydraulic fluid enters the pumps, which are
represented by the dashed-line squares.
3. Nohira’s valves SI1 and SI2, identified by the Examiner without
challenge from Appellants as the suction valves, are illustrated in Fig.
9 closer to the peripheries of the dashed-line squares representing the
pumps than the valves SC1 and SC2, identified by the Examiner
without challenge from Appellants as the regulators. Moreover, the
valves PC1 through PC8, identified by the Examiner without
challenge from Appellants as control valve units, are further from the
suction ports of the pumps than are the regulators SC1 and SC2.
4. Nohira’s Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hydraulic pressure unit
shown in plan view in Fig. 1 and in schematic block diagram form in
Fig. 4. The spatial relationships illustrated in Fig. 1 are consistent
with those indicated in the perspective view of Fig. 3. Figs. 7 and 8
are a schematic block diagram and plan view, respectively, of a
conventional system with a traction control system (Nohira, col. 1, ll.
30-31 and 43-50). Nohira’s Fig. 9 is a plan view of a hydraulic
pressure control system of the type illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8 that
additionally performs a steering control by braking operation. Such a
system requires control of the brake fluid at relatively high pressure
and therefore utilizes electromagnetic valves SC1, SC2, SI1, and SI2
having solenoid coil portions of relatively large outer diameters.
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