DETAILED ACTION
Notice to Applicant
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
Claims 1-14 are pending.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Claim Objections
Claims 1-5, 8, and 10 are objected to because of the following informalities:
The following changes should be made to improve claim language clarity within the claims:
On line 10 of claim 1, change “further” to --fourth--.
On line 19 of claim 1 and line 12 of claim 2, change each occurrence of “the first-third” to --a first-third--.
On line 20 of claim 1, change “the center” to --a center--.
On line 23 of claim 1, change “first direction“ to --first--.
On the penultimate line of claims 1-2, change each occurrence of “the width of the region” to --a width of a region--.
On line 3 of claims 3, 4, 5 and line 6 of claim 5, change each occurrence of “it” to --the second half turn--.
On lines 15 and 18 of claim 8, insert --than-- before each occurrence of “a width”.
On line 4 of claim 10, the variables A and R are not defined and should be defined within the claim.
Appropriate correction is required.
Specification
The title of the invention is misspelled. The following title is suggested: --Coil Component--.
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.
Claims 1 and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yoon et al. US Patent 11,170,927.
As per claims 1 and 13, Yoon et al. discloses in Fig. 4 a coil component (e.g. coil component 100’) comprising:
as per claim 1, a support member (e.g. support member 132); a first coil pattern (Annotated Fig. 4 below, coil pattern annotated as A) disposed on one surface of the support member (e.g. bottom surface of member 132) and having a plurality of turns (The coil pattern annotated as A has a plurality of half turns.); a second coil pattern (Annotated Fig. 4 below, coil pattern annotated as B) disposed on the other surface of the support member (e.g. top surface of member 132) and having a plurality of turns (The coil pattern annotated as B has a plurality of half turns.); a body (related Fig. 1, body 1) in which the support member and the first and second coil patterns are embedded and having first and second surfaces (e.g. related Fig. 1, back and front surfaces respectively) facing each other in a first direction (e.g. direction L), third and fourth surfaces (related Fig. 1, left and right surfaces respectively) facing each other in a second direction (e.g. direction W), and fifth and sixth surfaces (related Fig. 1, top and bottom surfaces respectively) facing each other in a third direction (e.g. direction T); and a via (Annotated Fig. 4 below, via annotated as C) extending in the third direction and connecting the first and second coil patterns, wherein an innermost turn of the plurality of turns of the first coil pattern includes a first half turn connected to the via (Annotated Fig. 4 below; An innermost turn of the coil pattern annotated as A includes a half turn annotated as D which is connected to the via annotated as C.) and a second half turn connected to the first half turn (Annotated Fig. 4 below; Half turn annotated as E is connected to the half turn annotated as D.), in a first-third direction cross-section of the body cut in a center thereof in the second direction, the width of the first half turn is smaller than the width of the second half turn (Annotated Fig. 4 below; A width of the turn annotated as D is smaller than a width of the turn annotated as E in a L-T cross section of the body 1 cut in a center of the W direction.), and the width of the second half turn in the first-third direction cross-section is greater than a width of a region where the first and second half turns are connected (Annotated Fig. 4 below; The width of the turn annotated as E is greater than a width of a region annotated as F where the turns annotated as D and E are connected.); and
as per claim 13, wherein the first and second half turns of the first coil pattern have curved regions, respectively, facing each other in the first direction (related Fig. 1 and Annotated Fig. 4 below; The turns annotated as D and E have curved regions opposite one another in the direction L.), and an average width of the curved region of the first half turn is smaller than an average width of the curved region of the second half turn (Annotated Fig. 4 below; An average width of the curved region of the turn annotated as D is smaller than an average width of the curved region of the turn annotated as E since the width of the turn annotated as D in the entirety of the turn is smaller than the width of the turn annotated as E.).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-12 and 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.
Conclusion
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/RAKESH B PATEL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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