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 .
Claims 1-7 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.
As to claim 1, the preamble calls for a method to inspect a module in which an inertial sensor is incorporated; however, the step of lines 3-4 is disclosed as taking place before the module even existed (i.e. before the sensor is incorporated in the module). As such, the “inertial sensor” (line 4) that provides the “sensitivity information” (line 3) is NOT THE SAME as the “inertial sensor” (line 5) that’s incorporated (“into the module”, line 5) because a difference in sensitivities between the module and sensor is due to the sensor having gone through a substantive change. Note that the “result” (line 2 from last) is indicative that the inertial sensor has changed because the inertial sensor has changed.
As to claim 4, how does “the electric test signal” (line 2) includes 2 signals. Such is internally inconsistent.
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Cao et al CN 112379128 teaches (step 3.3 to 4.5) comparing sensitivity of an acceleration sensor with a reference value sensitivity value.
Claim 1 would be allowed if amended by adding the following to the end of the claim 1: - - wherein the inertial sensor employed in acquiring sensitivity information corresponding to a predetermined inertial force of the inertial sensor is the inertial sensor incorporated in the module before such inertial sensor was incorporated. - -
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/ROBERT R RAEVIS/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2855