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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.
Claim(s) 9 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Hua (US 2016/0124050).
Hua teaches
Regarding claim 9,
a charging control method, wherein the charging control method comprising:
detecting contact state of a communication port (stationary battery charger 40);
judging whether the contact state of the communication port is normal, SO as to generate a communication execution instruction in conditions the communication port is electrically conductive (see Paragraph 0033);
conducting the communication circuit between the communication port and charging station according to the communication execution instruction, so as to enable the charging station start charging in conditions the communication is confirmed to be normal (see Paragraph 0033).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-8 are allowed.
Claim 10 is 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 following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art of record fails to teach or fairly suggest either alone or in combination thereof:
Regarding claim 1,
a charging control device, wherein two sides of the charging control device are respectively connected to a device to be charged and a charging station, and the charging control device comprises:
a charging port, connected to the device to be charged by one end, and connected to a contactor of the charging station by another end, for achieving contact connection of a charging circuit between the device to be charged and the charging control device;
a communication port, connected to a device communication port of the device to be charged, for achieving contact connection of a communication circuit between the device to be charged and the charging control device;
a main control unit, for judging whether contact state of the communication port is normal, so as to generate a communication execution instruction in conditions the communication port is electrically connected;
an execution unit, respectively connected to the main control unit and the communication port, for receiving the communication execution instruction sent by the main control unit, and conducting the communication circuit between the communication port and the charging station according to the communication execution instruction, so as to enable the charging station start charging in conditions the communication is confirmed to be normal; and
a power supply unit, connected to the main control unit and the execution unit;
regarding claim 10,
the charging control device according to claim 9, wherein the step of detecting contact state of a communication port is performed by a detection unit, the detection unit comprises a first detection switch, a second detection switch and a third detection switch; the first detection switch is used to detect the contact state in a X direction, the second detection switch is used to detect the contact state in a Y direction, and the third detection switch is used to detect the contact state in a Z direction; the step of the judging whether the contact state of the communication port is normal, so as to generate a communication execution instruction in conditions the communication port is electrically conductive comprises:
generating the communication execution instruction when simultaneously obtaining detection signals of the first detection switch, the second detection switch and the third detection switch.
Conclusion
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May 29, 2026
/JAMARA A FRANKLIN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
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