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           Appeal No. 2007-1530                                                                    
           Application 10/095,112                                                                  

           conductivity and provide more positive shielding (id. at 7:12-17).  Appellant’s         
           housing connector is further described as having “sufficient strength” (id. at 7:15).   
                                                                                                  
                 The lightweight metal 51 can be aluminum, an aluminum alloy, or a                 
           magnesium alloy (id. at 12:14-15).  The hollow ceramics grains 53 can be                
           “[m]ullite balloons, alumina balloons, carbon balloons, SiO2 balloons, or the like”     
           (id. at 12:16-18).  Appellants explain that “[i]n view of the lightweight design of     
           the connector housing 49 and its practical strength enough [sic – being enough?] to     
           perform its function, it has been confirmed through experiments that the proper         
           content of the hollow ceramics grains is about 30 to about 60 vol. %” (id. at 13:8-     
           11).                                                                                    

                              APPELLANTS’ EVIDENCE APPENDIX                                        
                 The Brief is accompanied by an Evidence Appendix consisting of five               
           figures described as “comparing the properties of the composite material of the         
           embodiment described in the specification with the properties of an aluminum            
           alloy" (Br. 10).  The Brief states that these figures were submitted with the           
           Response filed August 23, 2004 (Br. 10.).  The captions to the figures indicate that    
           the composite has (a) a “specific gravity” (sic -- density) 49% lighter than that of    
           the aluminum alloy, (b) a coefficient of linear expansion 42% that is lower than        
           that of the aluminum alloy, (c) an oscillation loss that is 4860% higher than that of   
           the aluminum alloy (indicating a higher vibration damping effect), (d) the same         
           shielding effects as the aluminum alloy, and (e) a thermal conductivity that is 20%     
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