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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments regarding amended claim 1, see Arguments/Remarks, filed 04/29/2026, with respect to claim 1 and its dependents have been fully considered and are persuasive. The rejection of claims 1 and its dependents in view of Miura (in view of Nakata as previously relied on for claims 2-3 subject matter) has been withdrawn.
Neither Miura nor Nakata teaches a display which includes/displays a “maintaining function of maintaining an output of the drive device” and “displays an operating state of the maintaining function…of the drive operation” as recited in amended claim 1.
Applicant's arguments filed 04/29/2026, regarding the prior art rejections of claims 16 and 17, have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. Claims 16 and 17 were not amended to recite similar subject matter to amended claim 1, they still recite the same language as in the originally examined claimed set. As such the first display screen only requires displaying “drive information related to the drive device”; as such the previous rejections (of Miura reference) still applies.
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) 16 and 17 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by anticipated by US 20090243831 A1, “Display Device Of Work Vehicle”, Miura et al.
Regarding Claim 16, Miura et al teaches “A work machine display control method used for a work machine including a work unit that performs a work by driving an attachment attached to a machine body of the work machine;”(Abstract: teaches invention is a display control system for a work machine which includes actuators (drive device) for a work device + [0043] work device is/includes an attachment of the machine body);” ; and a drive device that drives the attachment by supplying power to the attachment”([0043]-[0045] actuators are a drive device which provide power to the attachment);” the work machine display control method comprising: causing a display device to display a first display screen including drive information related to the drive device.”( [0008] According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display device for a work vehicle having a work apparatus operated by an actuator, the device comprising a flow rate limit setting unit for variably setting a maximum flow rate level of hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator by operating an operating member, and a display unit for displaying the maximum flow rate level of the hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator, wherein the hydraulic oil whose flow rate corresponds to a manipulated variable of the operating member is supplied to and drained from the actuator within a range defined by the maximum flow rate level that is set by the flow rate limit setting unit to cause the work apparatus to operate, and an operating member symbol for indicating the operating member is displayed in the display unit, with the maximum flow rate level of the hydraulic oil supplied to and drained from the actuator by operating the operating member being displayed in accordance with the operating member symbol.” Display includes oil flow rate to actuators (drive information of the drive devices))
Regarding Claim 17, it is a non-transitory computer readable medium equivalent to the method claim 16 above, it has the same grounds of rejection.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1 and 4-15 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: No prior art was found to teach or render obvious a work machine display system which includes “maintaining function of maintaining an output of the drive device” and “displays an operating state of the maintaining function…of the drive operation” as recited in amended claim 1.
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Conclusion
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/KENNETH M DUNNE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3669
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