DETAILED ACTION
Summary
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This is a first Office Action on the merits.
Claims 1-10 are currently pending.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because of numerous reference characters included in the drawings that are not mentioned in the specification. For example, numbers 9, 79, 83, 84, 86, 87, and 93 do not appear in the specification. Additionally, there are numerous reference characters mentioned in the specification that are not included in the drawings. For example, numbers 21, 23, 41, 51, and 52 do not appear in the drawings.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Claim Objections
Claims 4 and 10 are objected to because of the following informalities:
In claim 4, lines 1-2, please amend “wherein the distance between the first magnet and the second plate is larger than the distance between the third magnet and the second magnet” to recite “wherein a distance between the first magnet and the second plate is larger than a distance between the third magnet and the second magnet”;
In claim 10, line 1, please amend “there are a pluralities of the emergency power generating assemblies, the pluralities of the emergency power generating assembly are arranged surrounding the cam disc” to recite “there are a plurality of the emergency power generating assemblies, the plurality of emergency power generating assemblies are arranged surrounding the cam disc”.
Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Claims 2-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 2, lines 1-4, recites the limitation “wherein the emergency power generating assembly further includes a cylindrical body, two second magnets and a first rod, two second magnets are arranged on the cylindrical body, two first rods are arranged on two ends of the first magnet, a third magnet is arranged at one end of two first rods away from each other”. First, it is unclear to the examiner whether the recitation of “a first rod” was intended to be “two first rods” since the rest of the claim recites “two first rods”. Second, it is unclear what is being referred to by “away from each other” in “a third magnet is arranged at one end of two first rods away from each other”. Until further clarification is provided and further purposes of examination, the limitation has been interpreted as “wherein the emergency power generating assembly further includes a cylindrical body, two second magnets and two first rods, the two second magnets are arranged on the cylindrical body, the two first rods are arranged on two ends of the first magnet, a third magnet is arranged at one end of the two first rods”.
Claim 3, lines 5-6, recites the limitation “there are at least three rolling elements arranged surrounding the first rod, the first rod and the second plate is movably arranged via the rolling element”. As discussed above, claim 2, from which claim 3 depends, recites multiple “first rods”. It is unclear which of the “first rods” is being referred to in claim 3. Further clarification is required.
Claim 4 is rejected by dependence.
Claim 5, line 3, recites the limitation “a second charging coil”. Recitation of a “second” charging coil implies the existence of a “first” charging coil, however, there is no recitation of a first charging coil. For purposes of examination, “a second charging coil” has simply been interpreted as “a charging coil”.
Claim 6, lines 5-6, recites the limitation “the first magnet is provided with a third connecting rod”. Recitation of a “third” connecting rod implies the existence of “first” and “second” connecting rods, however, there is no recitation of first or second connecting rods. For purposes of examination, “a third connecting rod” has simply been interpreted as “a first connecting rod”.
Claim 7 is rejected by dependence from claim 6. Recitation of “the third connecting rod” in claim 7 has been interpreted as “the first connecting rod”.
Claims 8-10 are rejected by dependence.
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) and 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by ZHAO et al, CN102610868.
Re claim 1:
ZHAO discloses a mobile intelligent terminal with emergency charging function, comprising:
A smartphone [0004] [0008] [0062] [Figure 4];
An emergency power generating assembly cooperating with the smartphone [0057]-[0060] [Figures 2-3];
The emergency power generating assembly includes an induction coil (2) and a first magnet (6), the first magnet reciprocates relative to the induction coil, the first magnet moves relative to the induction coil, making the induction coil to cut though magnetic induction lines of the first magnet, the induction coil is used to charge a lithium battery of the smartphone [0057] [0060] [0063].
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
KIM, KR101571435, teaches a linear generator terminal case (10) for charging a mobile phone (90), the case including an induction coil (774) and a plurality of magnets (811, 812), the plurality of magnets reciprocate relative to the induction coil, the plurality of magnets move relative to the induction coil, making the induction coil to cut through magnetic lines of the plurality of magnets, the induction coil used to charge a lithium battery of the mobile phone [0023]-[0025] [Figures 1-10].
KIM, KR20070072060, teaches a self-charging apparatus in a mobile communication terminal (100), comprising induction coil (150) and first magnet (160), the first magnet reciprocates relative to the induction coil, the first magnet moves relative to the induction coil, making the induction coil to cut through magnetic lines of the first magnet, the induction coil used to charge a lithium battery (120) of the mobile phone [Figures 1-6].
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/LAURA A GUDORF/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2876
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