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 .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10, 12-14 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.
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.
Claims 1 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lang, US 20210069884.
Regarding claim 1, Lang discloses: A hand-held power tool (Fig. 1, handheld machine tool 100), comprising: a drive motor (Fig. 1, motor 180) comprising a drive shaft (Fig. 2, drive shaft 215); and a transmission (FIG. 2, gear unit 125) operably connected to the drive shaft and configured to be driven by the drive shaft, the transmission comprising at least one transmission cover (Fig. 2, gearbox flange 230) configured to close the transmission at least in portions, the at least one transmission cover arranged at least partially between the drive motor and the transmission (see Fig. 8), wherein at least one motor component (Fig. 8, motor component 280 including motor terminal 811, 812) assigned to the drive motor projects at least in portions into the at least one transmission cover.
Regarding claim 11, Lang further discloses: the at least one motor component includes a stator, and the stator is configured to project at least partially into the at least one transmission cover through the through-opening ([0060], “the at least one motor component 811, 812 allocated to stator 211 is at least regionally disposed in accommodation element 499 of gearbox flange 510 or 230 developed as recess 530”).
Conclusion
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/DANIEL JEREMY LEEDS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3731