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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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 5 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Tominaga et al. (PGPub 2019/0115813 A1).
Tominaga et al. teach a wire winding device for winding a wire rod around a rotating winding core, comprising: a rotary plate (27, Fig. 1) rotationally driven by a driving mechanism (26); a pair of columnar members (28, 29, Fig. 1) provided on the rotary plate such that a rotation center axis of the rotary plate is positioned between the columnar members, the winding core (36, 37, Fig. 1) respectively attached to the pair of columnar members; and a holding mechanism (43, Fig. 2) capable of changing and holding a gap distance between the pair of columnar members, wherein the pair of columnar members are respectively provided on the rotary plate so as to be movable along a straight line, the straight line extending orthogonal to the rotation center axis of the rotary plate as shown in Figs. 1-2, and respective distances from the rotation center axis of the rotary plate to the pair of columnar members are held by the holding mechanism so as to become the same (see also paragraph [0031], [0040]-[0046]).
Re. claim 5: The winding core has inner winding cores (36, Figs. 2-3) respectively attached to tip ends of the pair of columnar members; and outer winding cores (37, Figs. 2-3) respectively attached to the pair of columnar members so as to be movable along a direction of the rotation center axis of the rotary plate, the outer winding cores being arranged on radially outer side of the inner winding core, and the wire winding device further comprising a winding core moving mechanism (57, Figs. 1-2) capable of reciprocatingly moving positions of the outer winding cores in the direction of the rotation center axis of the rotary plate between a winding position and a waiting position (see also Figs. 5, 6, 8-11, paragraph [0055], [0060]), the winding position being located at a same level as positions of the inner winding cores, the winding position enabling winding of the wire rod (see also Figs. 8-11); and the waiting position being located at a level deviated from the positions of the inner winding cores, the waiting position prohibiting the winding of the wire rod as shown in Figs. 8-11 (see also paragraphs [0073]-[0094]).
Re. claim 6: Tominaga et al. also teach a wire winding method for performing a wire winding by using a device having a rotary plate rotationally driven by a driving mechanism; a pair of columnar members respectively provided on the rotary plate so as to be movable along a straight line, the straight line extending orthogonal to a rotation center axis of the rotary plate; and winding cores respectively attached to the pair of columnar members (see the office action for claim 1, as set forth above), comprising steps of adjusting a gap distance between the pair of columnar members (see also Figs. 2-3), and a subsequent step of, while holding respective distances from the rotation center axis of the rotary plate to the pair of columnar members so as to become same with each other, winding a wire rod around the winding cores by rotating the rotary plate, the winding cores being rotated together with the pair of columnar members as shown in Figs. 8-11 (paragraphs [0073]-[0094]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-4 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Sugimoto et al. (US PAT. 11,705,792), Ishihara et al. (US PAT. 10,792,724), and Tominaga et al. (US PAT. 10,715,016) are cited to further show the state of the art with respect to a wire winding device.
Conclusion
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/PAUL D KIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3729