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 .
Drawings
The drawings are not of sufficient quality to permit examination. Accordingly, replacement drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to this Office action. The replacement sheet(s) should be labeled “Replacement Sheet” in the page header (as per 37 CFR 1.84(c)) so as not to obstruct any portion of the drawing figures. 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.
Applicant is given a shortened statutory period of TWO (2) MONTHS to submit new drawings in compliance with 37 CFR 1.81. Extensions of time may be obtained under the provisions of 37 CFR 1.136(a) but in no case can any extension carry the date for reply to this letter beyond the maximum period of SIX MONTHS set by statute (35 U.S.C. 133). Failure to timely submit replacement drawing sheets will result in ABANDONMENT of the application.
The drawings are objected to as failing to comply with 37 CFR 1.84(p)(5) because they do not include the following reference sign(s) mentioned in the description:
The phrases “a wire supply part 31” and “a controller 60” in paragraph [0047] do not shown in the Figure 1.
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. 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 Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 1, 3 and 4 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jeong et al. (KR-101891039 B1).
Jeong et al. teach an electric motor coil winder (10, Fig. 1) that minimizes a loss of a wire required to manufacture a coil of an electric motor, comprising: a rotary table (500) provided with an insert tool (T) on which the coil (C) is to be stacked on an upper surface and a rotation motor (not shown, paragraph [0002]) configured to rotate the insert tool as shown in Fig. 1 (see also paragraph [0017]); a winding framework part (200) provided with a winding cylinder, which is vertically provided above the rotary table, winding guides installed at an end part of a rod of the winding cylinder and around which the wire is to be wound, and a support part provided on the winding guides and configured to slide up and down so that the coil is stacked on the insert tool as shown in Fig. 1 (see also paragraphs [0017]-[0018]); a flier part (300, paragraph [0018]) configured to wind the wire, which is wound around a wire supply part (not shown), to the winding guides, while rotating along an outer part of the winding guides (see also paragraphs [0017]-[0018]); a gripping part (700) configured to hold one side of the wire and pull and move the wire to an outside of the winding framework part as shown in Fig. 1 and 4-6 (paragraphs [0026]-[0031]), wherein it is noted that the phrase” after the a rotating operation of the flier part” is a process of using and an intended use; a cutting part (400) provided with a cutting member configured to cut the wire pulled by the gripping part as shown in Fig. 1, 10-11 (see also paragraphs [0017]-[0018] and [0039]-[0040]); and a controller (not shown) configured to control sequential operations of the electric motor coil winder and a moving distance of the gripping part (paragraph [0036]).
However, Jeong et al. fail to teach the cutting part including a cutting cover (not shown) configured to protect the electric motor coil winder by surrounding the wire at a predetermined interval to prevent the wire from popping up outwards when the wire is cut. Since it has been held that where the general conditions of a claim are disclosed in the prior art, discovering the optimum or workable rangers involves only routine skill in the art. MPEP 2144.04 (il-A). Therefore, since such a modification would have been an obvious design consideration that is within the purview of one having ordinary skill in the art to provide the well-known benefit of obtaining desirable cutting part.
Re. claim 3: Since the scope of the claimed invention is the electric motor coil winder, but the phrase “the wire extending from a slot provided inside the electric motor up to an output terminal but tailors a length of each lead wire according to a pulse of the electric motor, thereby reducing the loss of the wire that occurs while aligning the lead wire in the output terminal” as recited in lines 2-5 is an intended use of the electric motor. Therefore, it is noted that the claims can be drafted to recite the intended working environment.
Re. claim 4: Since the scope of the claimed invention is the electric motor coil winder, but the phrase “the electric motor coil winder is suitable for operation by comparing a value of a wire length required to manufacture the coil with a value of a length of the wire wound on the wire supply part” as recited in lines 2-4 is an intended use of the electric motor coil winder. Therefore, it is noted that the claims can be drafted to recite the intended working environment.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 2 is 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.
The Prior Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Yamazaki et al. (US PAT. 6,782,600), Duclos et al. (US PAT. 6,012,664), and Sbalchiero et al. (US PAT. 5,664,735) are cited to further show the state of the art with respect to an electric motor coil winder.
Conclusion
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/PAUL D KIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3729
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