Appeal 2007-0906
Application 10/445,238
curing the crystalline multi-axially oriented liquid crystal polymer
layer and the layer of composite material at a temperature of about 177ēC;
and
removing the crystalline multi-axially oriented thermoplastic layer
and the layer of composite material from the tool.
4. A method for thermoplastic coating a composite structure,
comprising:
applying a crystalline multi-axially oriented thermoplastic layer onto a
working surface of a tool, the crystalline multi-axially oriented thermoplastic
layer having a softening temperature;
applying a layer of composite material onto the crystalline multi-
axially oriented thermoplastic layer;
curing the crystalline multi-axially oriented thermoplastic layer and
the layer of composite material at a curing temperature; and
wherein the softening temperature is not substantially greater than the
curing temperature.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art references as evidence
in rejecting the appealed claims:
Harvey US 4,966,807 Oct. 30, 1990
Clarke US 6,174,405 B1 Jan. 16, 2001
Claims 1-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Clarke in view of Harvey. Claims 1-13 stand rejected
under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting
over claims 1-6 of Clarke taken in view of Harvey. We affirm both
rejections. Our reasoning follows.
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