Appeal 2007-1454
Application 11/088,528
1 Appellants claim a vehicle brake system wherein the system is operative to
2 determine a target position of a movable brake component and to control actuation
3 of the brake component based on the current position of the component.
4 Claim 1, reproduced below, is further illustrative of the claimed subject
5 matter:
6 1. A vehicle brake system comprising:
7 a brake actuator associated with a tire, said brake actuator having at
8 least one moveable brake component;
9 a brake control system operative to determine a target position of the
10 at least one moveable brake component based at least in part upon a
11 relationship between an actual tire/road friction force and a target tire/road
12 friction force; and
13 wherein said brake control system is operable to control actuation of
14 said brake actuator based at least in part upon the target position of the at
15 least one moveable brake component and at least in part based upon a
16 current position of the at least one moveable brake component.
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18 The reference of record relied upon by the Examiner as evidence of
19 anticipation and obviousness is:
20 Matsumoto US 5,001,640 Mar. 19, 1991
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22 Claims 1-48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as failing
23 to comply with the enablement requirement.
24 Claims 1, 2, 6-11, 14, 18-22, 25, 26, 30-35, 38 and 42-46 stand rejected
25 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Matsumoto.
26 Claims 12, 13, 23, 24, 36, 37, 47, and 48 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
27 103 as unpatentable over Matsumoto.
28 Claims 1, 2, 6-14, 18-26, 30-38, 42-48 stand provisionally rejected under the
29 judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as unpatentable
30 over claims 1-8, 14-17, 21-32, 37-40, and 44-46 of co-pending application
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