Appeal 2007-0955
Application 10/297,899
reasonably comprising the “plug input” giving the term its broadest
reasonable interpretation. Likewise, the end tabs 15a of the second bus bars
15 reasonably comprise the “plug output.”
Also, the claimed “connecting part” is fully met by the two
perpendicular arrays of bus bars 16 and 14 with insulating sheet 17
therebetween. That is, the “first connecting part” is fully met by the array of
upper bus bars 14 (i.e., “terminal connector strips”) and the associated face
of insulating sheet 17 whose grooves 17a accommodate the upper bus bars.
Likewise, the “second connecting part” is fully met by the array of lower bus
bars 16 (i.e., “terminal connector strips”) and the associated face of
insulating sheet 17 whose grooves 17a accommodate the lower bus bars.
Selected bus bars within the array are connected together at
“connecting points” P1-P6 (Oka, col. 4, ll. 10-25; Figs. 5A-7). As shown in
Fig. 5B of Oka, two of the lower bus bar terminal strips 15 are each
connected solely to corresponding upper bus bar terminal strips 13 at
connecting points P3 and P4 respectively. In our view, this particular
connection fully meets the limitation calling for at least two output
connections to be connected to an associated input connection via a
connecting point on a respective terminal strip as claimed. Moreover, this
connection fully meets the limitation calling for each of the at least two
output connections on the second connecting part to be conducted only to
the respective terminal connector strip of the associated input connection as
claimed.
Lastly, we note that Oka’s second connecting part noted above is
capable of “decoupling the plug input from the plug output” as claimed
giving the term “decoupling” its broadest reasonable interpretation.
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