Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
DETAILED ACTION
1. This office action is in response to application 17/605,782, and Amendment filed on 08/25/2023. Claims 1-10, 16-17 and 25 have been canceled. Claims 11, 14, 18, 22 and 24 have been amended. Claims 11-15 and 18-24 remain pending the application.
2. Objections of claims 22 and 24 u have been withdrawn based on Applicant’s amendment.
3. Rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) has been withdrawn based on Applicant’s amendment.
4. Rejections of claims 11 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) have been withdrawn based on Applicant’s amendment.
5. By amending the claim/s and creating the new claims, which necessitates changing the ground/citations for rejection, the new rejection of claims was necessitated by Applicant’s Amendment.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
6. Claim 11 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the enablement requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and/or use the invention. Claim 11 contains subject matter “electronically operated machines” that was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to make and/or use the invention (emphasis added. The instant specification is silent about “electronically operated machines”.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
7. Claims 11 and 21 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems (Pub. No.: DE 102016008028 A1) in view of Asada et al. (Pub. No.: JP 2012231559 A).
8. As to claim 11 Willems discloses a fast-charging station for charging batteries of electrically operated machines, the electrically operated machines including electric vehicles, watercraft, aircraft or work machines (Abstract; page 2, ¶¶ 6-7; page 3, ¶ 2; Fig.), the fast-charging station comprising:
an internal combustion engine (a mobile charging system 10 (fast-charging station) has at least one combustion engine 22 – Abstract; page 4, ¶ 3; Fig.);
at least one of:
a fuel tank, a fuel cell, a generator (a generator device 16 –Abstract; page 3, ¶ 7; Fig.), a backup battery (energy store/high-voltage battery 40 - page 3, ¶ 6; page 4, ¶ 6; Fig.), a high-power capacitor, a photovoltaic element or a flywheel store; and
a charging device for connecting the fast-charging station to the
electrically operated machine (the respective connections 18 and 20 are
designed, for example, as charging sockets, in which respective plugs of the respective motor vehicles 12 and 14 can be inserted; for example, the connections 20 configured as DC charging sockets, via which a DC charging the energy storage of the motor vehicles 14 can be carried out - page 3, ¶ 8; page 4, ¶¶ 1-2; Fig.).
With respect to claim 11 Willems does not explicitly describe that the fast-
charging station further includes a control or regulating unit for communicating with the electronically operated machines, wherein the control or regulating unit is configured to log and evaluate driving profiles of the electric vehicles to suggest, as a function of transmitted operating states of each of the electric operated vehicles, breaks for charging to be displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle.
As to claim 11 Asada in combination with Willems teaches the fast-
charging station (Abstract; Figs.1-2) further includes a control or regulating unit for communicating with the electronically operated machines (as best understood, Figs.1-3 and 6 show a control circuit 17 (control or regulating unit) for communicating with the electrically operated machines (A, B, C) 20 using a communication unit 14 and 22 – page 4, ¶¶ 8-9; page 5, ¶¶ 9-10; Figs.1-3 and 6), wherein the control or regulating unit is configured to log and evaluate driving profiles of the electric vehicles (based on the information received from the reserved vehicle 2 via the communication unit 14, the charging reservation unit 17b of the control circuit 17 (control or regulating unit) records the reservation content for charging from the power storage device 11 to the vehicle 2 in the reservation memory 16 (log driving profiles of the electric vehicles) – page 5, ¶ 8; Figs.1-3; further, the estimated charge end time of this record is calculated , by the charging reservation unit 17b of the control circuit 17 (control or regulating unit), based on the charge start request time T2 and the required charge amount Q2 (evaluate driving profiles of the electric vehicles)such that the larger the required charge amount Q2, the longer the period from the charge start request time T2 to the scheduled charge end time - page 7, ¶¶ 9-10; page 6, ¶¶ 1-3) to suggest, as a function of transmitted operating states of each of the electric operated vehicles, breaks for charging to be displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle (for example, Fig. 12 shows an example of an image displayed on the display device of the operation display unit 21 (displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle) a charge start candidate time and the possible charge amount (suggest, as a function of transmitted operating states of each of the electric operated vehicles) in the possible charge amount transition table are displayed along the time series from left to right - page 7, ¶ 6; Figs.3-4, 12).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before
effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Asada’s teaching regarding the
fast-charging station that further includes a control or regulating unit for communicating with the electronically operated machines, wherein the control or regulating unit is configured to log and evaluate driving profiles of the electric vehicles to suggest, as a function of transmitted operating states of each of the electric operated vehicles, breaks for charging to be displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle to modify Willems’ invention by creating more user friendly environment for performing a charge reservation by the driver of the electrically operated machine (Abstract).
9. As to claim 21 Willems in combination with Asada recites a method for charging electrically operated land vehicles, watercraft, aircraft, work machines and/or batteries, the method comprising: performing a charging using the fast-charging station as recited in claim 11 (page 3, ¶¶ 7-8; page 4, ¶¶ 1-2; Fig.).
10. Claims 12-13 and 24 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Gehret (U.S. Patent 7,239,034 B2).
With respect to claims 12-13 and 24 Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the fast-charging station further comprising at least one of a particle filter or an exhaust gas catalytic converter in an exhaust tract.
As to claims 12-13 and 24 Gehret in combination with Willems and Asada discloses:
Claim 12 The power generation system/station further comprising at least one of a particle filter or an exhaust gas catalytic converter in an exhaust tract (Abstract; col.6, ll.29-38; col.7, ll.17-24; Fig.1);
Claim 13 The power generation system/station, wherein the fast-charging station is configured for being operated by at least one of natural gas, hydrogen, gasoline or diesel fuel (col.7, ll.8-16; Fig.1);
Claim 24 The method further comprising installing the fast-charging station at a construction site (col.8, ll.53-67; col.9, ll.1-5; Fig.1).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Gehret’s teaching regarding the fast-charging station further comprising at least one of a particle filter or an exhaust gas catalytic converter in an exhaust tract to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by lowering emission concentrations (col.6, ll.29-33).
11. Claims 14-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Raghunathan (U.S. Patent 10,560,050 B2).
With respect to claims 14-15 Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the fast-charging station further comprising a roof covering the at least one of the charging device or the mains connection, wherein the roof is openable and closeable.
As to claims 14-15 Raghunathan in combination with Willems and Asada teaches:
Claim 14 The fast-charging station further comprising a roof covering the at least one of the charging device or the mains connection (Abstract; col.4, ll.12-24; col.4, ll.36-51; Figs.1-2);
Claim 15 The fast-charging station as recited in claim 14, wherein the roof is openable and closeable (Abstract; col.3, ll.13-28; col.4, ll.6-15; col.5, ll.9-11; col.5, ll.48-63; col.7, ll.4-23; col.7, ll.61-67; col.8, ll.1-28).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Raghunathan’s teaching regarding the fast-charging station further comprising a roof covering the at least one of the charging device or the mains connection, wherein the roof is openable and closeable to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by providing the solar roof systems that are portable and collapse easily (col.2, ll.34-35).
12. Claim 19 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Galin et al. (U.S. Patent 11,400,821 B2).
With respect to claim 19 Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the fast-charging station further comprising a control or regulating unit for communicating with the electrically operated machines, wherein breaks for charging to be displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle.
As to claim 19 Galin in combination with Willems and Asada describes the fast-charging station further comprising a wireless data transfer device (col.11, ll.47-52; col.15, ll.37-48).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Galin’s teaching regarding the fast-charging station further comprising a control or regulating unit for communicating with the electrically operated machines, wherein breaks for charging to be displayed in a cockpit of each electric vehicle to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by using a user interface to display that the charging process is finished, thereby providing more friendly user interface (col.41, ll.23-33).
13. Claim 18 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Jiang (Pub. No.: CN 207416582 U).
With respect to claim 18 Jiang in combination with Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the fast-charging station further comprising an antenna, the antenna being connected to the control or regulating unit.
As to claim 18 Jiang in combination with Willems and Asada recites the fast-charging station (Abstract; page 2, ¶ 5) further comprising an antenna (outdoor reception antenna 7 - page 3, ¶¶ 7-8; Fig.3), the antenna being connected to the control or regulating unit (processor module 9 - page 3, ¶¶ 7-8; Fig.3).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Jiang’s teaching regarding the fast-charging station further comprising an antenna, the antenna being connected to the control or regulating unit to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by increasing the strength of the receiving and transmitting communication signal, thereby improving the communication speed, convenient to charge (page 3, ¶ 7).
14. Claims 22-23 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Wang et al. (Pub. No.: CN 102097832 A).
With respect to claims 22-23 Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the method, wherein the charging involves charging a plurality of work machines, the method further comprising integrating the work machines into the fast-charging station via radio link and detecting a work behavior of the work machines by fuzzy logic.
As to claims 22-23 Wang in combination with Willems and Asada describes:
Claim 22 The method, wherein the charging involves charging a plurality of work machines (Abstract), the method further comprising integrating the work machines into the fast-charging station via radio link (¶¶ 36; 52-55; 149-154; 156-157; 185-187);
Claim 23 The method further comprising detecting a work behavior of the work machines by fuzzy logic (¶ 188).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Wang’s teaching regarding the method, wherein the charging involves charging a plurality of work machines, the method further comprising integrating the work machines into the fast-charging station via radio link and detecting a work behavior of the work machines by fuzzy logic to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by Implementing an intelligent computing technology for sea quantity of cross-region and the cross-industry, multi-departments data and information for analyzing and processing, so as to realize the terminal device and charging/exchanging power station of intelligent decision and control (¶ 188).
15. Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Willems and Asada in view of Bhat et al. (U.S. Patent 10,800,279 B2).
With respect to claim 20 Willems and Asada do not explicitly describe the fast-charging station further comprising a current transfer or communication transfer device that is cascadable with a further fast-charging station.
As to claim 20 Bhat in combination with Willems and Asada describes the fast-charging station (Abstract; col.4, ll.42-55) further comprising a current transfer or communication transfer device that is cascadable with a further fast-charging station (col.8, ll.45-67; col.9, ll.1-5; Figs.11-12).
It would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skills in the art before effective filing date of clamed invention to employ Bhat’s teaching regarding the fast-charging station further comprising a current transfer or communication transfer device that is cascadable with a further fast-charging station to modify Willems’ and Asada’s inventions by permitting powering a high voltage load requirement associated with current transfer to the electric vehicle (col.8, ll.51-57).
REMARKS
16. Mostly Applicant argues that amended claim 11 overcomes rejection under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1).
By amending the claim/s, which necessitates changing the ground/citations for
rejection, the new rejection of claims was necessitated by Applicant’s Amendment.
Applicant's arguments filed on 08/25/2023 have been fully considered, but
they are not persuasive with regard to rejections of claims 11-15 and 18-24 as set forth above in the instant Office Action.
17. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
Conclusion
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/NAUM LEVIN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2851
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