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 .
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) 1-3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Uranaka et al. (US9,868,343 B2).
With respect to claim 1, Uranaka et al. discloses a vehicle comprising a frame defined by a pair of side rails 24, a motor/generator 42 able to provide regenerative braking, a brake register or resistors 48 located below said rails and able to be air cooled by the outside air, as shown in figures 1 and 9.
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With respect to claim 2, Uranaka et al. discloses bracket 85, 86 for securing said brake registers to said frame rails below and spaced, as shown in figure 10.
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With respect to claim 3, Uranaka et al. discloses radiators 44, 46 disposed outside the register, wherein refrigerant can flow to said registers or resistors, as shown in figure 1 and recited in col. 7, lines 55-67.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 4 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.
Conclusion
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JEFFREY J. RESTIFO
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 3613
/JEFFREY J RESTIFO/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3613