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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, 5, 9- 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Bache et al. (DE 102011078921 A1)
Re. claims 1, 9 and 10, Bache discloses a system/method for controlling temperature of a motor, comprising at least one processor and a storage medium, wherein the storage medium stores (control unit 5):
an acquisition module configured to acquire a real-time temperature of the motor (¶. [0006] and [0016]-[0017]);
a comparison module configured to compare the real-time temperature of the motor with a plurality of preset temperature thresholds (¶. [0002] and [0009]), wherein the plurality of the temperature thresholds correspond to a multi-level voltage amplitude limiting strategy (¶. [0011]); and
a limiting module (Matrix of figure 2 stored in the memory of the microcontroller) configured to determine the voltage amplitude limiting strategy (U) at a level corresponding to the real-time temperature of the motor according to the comparison result (G11, G12…) and limiting an input voltage of the motor with the voltage amplitude limiting strategy at the level corresponding to the real-time temperature of the motor to control the temperature of the motor (¶. [0031]).
Re. claims 5, 11- 13, Bache discloses controlling the temperature of the motor has different protection modes, and the method further comprises: switching between the different protection modes according to the real-time temperature of the motor (See mode P1, P2, P3).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2- 4, 6- 8 and 14- 16 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
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/SAID BOUZIANE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2846
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