Application of Tomoyuki Kohno

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

Kohno appeals from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 3-8 in appellant’s application 1 for “Miniature Variable Condensors” as “unpatentable over Osnos 2 in view of Lechopiez 3 under 35 U.S.C. 103.”

Rather than connecting the two insulating end plates of a variable capacitor by utilizing nuts and through bolts surrounded by insulative spacers at the corners of the end plates to form the framework of the capacitor, as Osnos shows to be conventional in the prior art, appellant provides the corners of one end plate of his device…