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 and 9 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Ye (CN 113079593 A). Reference and Translation attached.
As to claim 1, Ye discloses:
A heat dissipation mechanism (Fig. 1-3) comprising:
a sheltering component 4 (front wall);
a division component 4 (side walls) disposed on the sheltering component;
a blade 11 pivoted (by 9; see par. n0022, Translation) to the division component;
a driving component 21 movably disposed on the division component and connected to the blade; and
an actuating module 8, 14, 15 connected to the driving component;
wherein, the blade is driven by the actuating module to rotate relative to the division component via the driving component (see Fig. 1 and 4).
As to claim 9, Ye discloses:
An electronic device (Fig. 1-3) comprising:
a case 1 comprising a side plate (any side of 1);
a heat dissipation mechanism (Fig. 1-3) comprising:
a sheltering component 4 (front wall) connected to the side plate;
a division component 4 (side walls) disposed on the sheltering component;
a blade 11 pivoted (by 9; see par. n0022, Translation) to the division component;
a driving component 21 movably disposed on the division component and connected to the blade; and
an actuating module 8, 14, 15 connected to the driving component;
wherein, the blade is driven by the actuating module to rotate relative to the division component via the driving component (see Fig. 1 and 4).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-8 and 10-19 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.
Claim 20 is allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
As to claims 2-8 and 10-19, the allowability resides in the overall structure and functionality of the apparatus as recited in the dependent claims 2, 10, and 11, including all of the limitations of their base claims and intervening claims, and at least in part, because they recite the following limitations:
2. The heat dissipation mechanism of claim 1, wherein the division component comprises a sliding slot, the blade comprises an insertion pin, the insertion pin of the blade passes through the sliding slot to connect with the driving component.
10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the electronic device further comprises a fan disposed inside the case and adjacent to the heat dissipation mechanism; a first heat dissipation hole is formed on the side plate of the case; the sheltering component comprises an slot inner wall, a second heat dissipation hole is formed on the slot inner wall; the fan faces the second heat dissipation hole, and the second heat dissipation hole is communicated with the first heat dissipation hole.
11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the division component comprises a sliding slot, the blade comprises an insertion pin, the insertion pin of the blade passes through the sliding slot to connect with the driving component.
Su (US 20100089549 A1), Ye (US 20080089035 A1), Yeh (US 20100015904 A1), and Novotny (US 6896612 B1) disclose conventional pivoting louver arrangements.
Du (CN 116759904 A; IDS) discloses a pin and sliding slot, but not in combination with the driving component movably disposed on the division component.
None of the prior art, either alone or in combination, can be reasonably construed as adequately teaching the above claimed elements, in combination with the remaining claim limitations.
Further, Examiner has not identified any double patenting issues.
Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.”
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
As to claim 20, the allowability resides in the overall structure and functionality of the apparatus as recited in independent claim 20, and at least in part, because it recites the following limitations:
20. An electronic device comprising:
a case comprising a side plate, a first heat dissipation hole being formed on the side plate;
a fan disposed inside the case; and
a heat dissipation mechanism comprising:
a sheltering component connected to the side plate to form a slot body, the slot body comprising an slot inner wall, and a second heat dissipation hole being formed on the slot inner wall;
a division component disposed inside the slot body of the sheltering component;
a blade pivoted to the division component;
a driving component movably disposed on the division component and connected to the blade; and an actuating module connected to the driving component;
wherein the fan faces the second heat dissipation hole, and the second heat dissipation hole faces the first heat dissipation hole, the blade is disposed between the first heat dissipation hole and the second heat dissipation hole, the blade is driven by the actuating module to rotate relative to the first heat dissipation hole and the second heat dissipation hole via the driving component.
None of the prior art, either alone or in combination, can be reasonably construed as adequately teaching the above limitations in combination with the remaining claim elements.
Further, Examiner has not identified any double patenting issues.
Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.”
Conclusion
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/JACOB R CRUM/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2835