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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 .
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 1-4 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Khoo (WO 2014/117350).
In regard to claim 1, Khoos shows a stator module 1 with a stator body 3/4. An armature winding 6 is fixedly arranged on the stator body ¾. The armature winding 6 is provided with an upper surface US and a lower surface LS which are oppositely arranged in a first vertical direction (see annotated figure 2 below). A first splicing surface 1S and a second splicing surface 2S are oppositely arranged in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first vertical direction. The armature winding 6 provided with a first protrusion 1P that protrudes from the first splicing surface in the second/horizontal direction. The armature winding 6 is provided with a plurality of armature coils A/B/C arranged periodically (see figure 12a). At least a part of the plurality of the armature coils is/are arranged in the first protrusion (see armature coil A’ arranged furthest left in figure 12a).
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In regard to claim 2, the armature winding 6 includes a second protrusion 2P, the second protrusion protruding from the second splicing surface 2S in a horizontal direction opposite to the second direction. At least a part of the plurality of the armature coils A/B/C are arranged in the second protrusion (this part would be located above the leftmost armature coil A’ in figure 12a).
In regard to claim 3, the armature includes a plurality of U-phase armature coils (see the A coils in figure 12a), a plurality of V-phase armature coils (see the B coils in figure 12a), and a plurality of W-phase armature coils (see the C coils in figure 12a). The U-phase armature coils, the V-phase armature coils and the W-phase armature coils together form a plurality of three-phase armature windings. The armature winding are formed by stacking a plurality of layers of the armature coils (see page 15, lines 10-25). In the second/horizontal direction, the armature coils are periodically arranged in phase sequence A/B/C.
In regard to claim 4 for any three-phase armature winding, the U-phase armature coil (the A coils) , the V-phase armature coil (the B coils), and the W-phase armature coil (the C coils) are located in a same layer (see fig 12a showing a layer of A coils, a layer of B coils, and a lower of C coils). In the second direction, the U-phase armature coil, the V-phase armature coil and the W-phase armature coil are arranged at intervals in phase sequence of A/B/C.
In regard to claim 6, it may be seen in figure 1, that a plurality of the stator bodies 3/4 are joined together. A group of three of these stator bodies 3/4 joined together and extending through a 90° arc (see the segment between the arrows). When this is done, this stator body is fan-shaped, the armature winding 6 of this stator body is arc-shaped, and a plane where an end surface ES1 of the first protrusion is located would be perpendicular to a plane where an end surface of the second protrusion ES2 is located.
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 5 and 7-30 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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/MARK A DEUBLE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3651