DETAILED ACTION
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 1 is pending.
Claim Objections
Claim 1 is objected to because of the following informalities: The claim should recite:
--A system comprising:
a stationary base;
a movable body; and
a parallel pair of flexure beams, each flexure beam being mechanically connected to the stationary base and the movable body so as to provide for two-dimensional motion of the movable body relative to the stationary base.--
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1)/102(a)(2) as being anticipated by G. Jenny (US 3,247,311; hereinafter Jenny).
Regarding Claim 1, Jenny discloses a system (Fig. 1) comprising:
a stationary base (Fig. 1; board 23);
a movable body (Fig. 1, item 6); and
a parallel pair of flexure beams (Fig. 1, parallel items 4a), each flexure beam being mechanically connected (Fig. 1, at item 4b by intermediary bar 5) to the stationary base (Fig. 1; board 23) and the movable body (Fig. 1, item 6) so as to provide for two-dimensional motion of the body (Fig. 1, item 6) relative to the stationary base (Fig. 1, board 23).
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Nagata et al. (US 2021/0255212 A1) suggests a substrate; a fixing portion that is provided on the substrate; a first support beam that is arranged in a first direction; a first movable body that faces the substrate and that is displaceable with the first support beam as a first rotation axis, the first support beam coupling the first movable body and the fixing portion; a second support beam that is arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction (see claim 1).
Brunner et al. (US 2017/0160153 A1) teaches an electrode that includes at least one electrode strip connected to the charge transmission by means of material bonding in certain areas of the at least one electrode strip, the electrode further including a charge pick-off arranged parallel to the front face of the piezoelectric transducer and that receives and transmits the received generated electric polarization charges via the charge transmission (see claim 1).
Bao et al. (US 2016/0146680 A1) discloses an enclosure defining an interior cavity; a bending resonator housed in the interior cavity, the bending resonator comprising: a diaphragm connected to the enclosure, the diaphragm comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface (see claim 1).
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/GIOVANNI ASTACIO-OQUENDO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2858 8/23/2025