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 .
In response to the restriction requirement, Applicant elected claims 1-2 and 6 for further examination. As a result, claims 3-5, 7-13 are withdrawn from further prosecution.
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.
Claim(s) 1-2, 6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Misumi et al. (US 2009/0097870).
Misumi et al. discloses a production machine diagnosing system comprising:
a data collecting unit that collects operation data of a plurality of drive devices (FIG. 5: Collecting sound data from driven motors to determine the abnormality); and
a diagnosing unit that detects an abnormality based on the operation data of the plurality of drive devices collected by the data collecting unit (FIG. 5, steps S302, S305, S308, S311, S314: Determining if the abnormal sound occurs),
wherein the diagnosing unit includes
a first diagnosing unit that detects an abnormality based on operation data of a
first drive device which drives an apparatus which transfers a sheet among the plurality of drive
devices in a case where the first drive device is driven (FIG. 6: The motor of the feed roller pair (24, 26) is driven (step S401) and the abnormality is detected based on the collected sound (step S402), wherein the feed roller pair transfers a sheet as shown in FIG. 2), and
a second diagnosing unit that detects an abnormality based on operation data of a second drive device other than the first drive device among the plurality of drive devices in a
case where the second drive device is driven (FIG. 5: The motor of the rotary development device 38 is driven (step S301) and the abnormality is determined based on whether the abnormal sound occurs (steps S302, S315).
Regarding to claim 2: wherein the first diagnosing unit and the second diagnosing unit detect the abnormalities of the first drive device and the second drive device, respectively, based on the operation data of the first drive device and the second drive device in a case where the first drive device and the second drive device are driven at different times (FIG. 5 shows that the motor of the rotary development device and the motor of the feed path are driven in sequence).
Regarding to claim 6: wherein the second diagnosing unit detects the abnormality based on the operation data of the second drive device in a case where the second drive device is driven from a first position to a second position (FIG. 2 shows the rotary development 38 is driven to rotate from one position to the other position).
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/LAM S NGUYEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2853
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