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 .
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Status of the Claims
Claims 1-20 are pending in the current application.
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) 1-3, 9, 11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Parish (US 4030639).
As to claim 1, Parish discloses a material distributor comprising:
A distribution mechanism and housing, wherein the mechanism is provided at the bottom of the housing (figure 1: hopper/‘housing’ 12 with distribution portion 16 at the bottom);
The material distribution mechanism comprising a plurality of through holes formed inside the mechanism at intervals along a length direction of the mechanism (figure 3-4: distributor 16 with holes 11 along longitudinal direction [figure 1]);
A plurality of feeding channels provided at two sides of the distribution mechanism and each feeding channel corresponds to one of the through holes (figure 4-5: channels 30 for each hole 11, figure 14 showing embodiment with feeding channels angled to two sides of distribution mechanism by channels 72).
As to claim 2, Parish discloses two rows of holes (figure 3: two rows of holes 11).
As to claims 3 and 11, Parish discloses a plurality of guide tubes at the bottoms of the through holes (figure 11: ‘guide tube’ structure 54 at hole 40).
As to claim 9, Parish discloses the housing is trumpet shaped (figure 1: showing ‘Y’/trumpet shaped hopper 12).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-8, 10 and 12-20 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.
These claims require various tube structure and vacuum evaporation devices not disclosed by the prior art as discussed above.
Various prior art, discloses similar structures:
US 2022033958 to Deppisch – disclosing housing structure with distributor and holes (figure 1: holes 21 in distributor with above ‘housing’ 20) for a vacuum evaporation device, but not disclosing the requisite guide tube structure.
CN 113981378A to Peng disclosing a housing structure, distribution mechanism with a row of holes and tubes for a vacuum evaporation mechanism (figure 2), but without the requisite location of the tubes (on 2 sides of the distribution mechanism).
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/JASON BERMAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1794
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