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 .
Acknowledgement is made of application #18/648,605 filed on 04/29/2024 in which claims 1-14 have been presented for prosecution in a first action on the merits.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed in parent Application No. 17/419,194, filed on 06/28/2021.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) filed on 04/29/2024 has been considered and placed of record. An initialed copy is attached herewith.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims. Therefore, the limitations of, “current detection unit (52)” as recited in claim 8 must be shown , specifically in Fig. 3 or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s). No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
The drawings are further objected to as failing to comply with 37 CFR 1.84(p)(4) because reference character “46” has been used to designate both “an external energy metering module (46)” and “an internal energy metering module (46)”, as recited in claim 4. Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 3-4,6 and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
While the limitations of, “…comprises A, B and/or C” unequivocally indicates that the subject matter includes at least one of the listed elements, allowing for any individual item or any combination of the items, it can nonetheless be argued that using “and/or” for more than two items can be ambiguous, as is the case in claims 3,6 and 8 and thus render the said claims consequently indefinite.
Claim 4 depend directly from claim 3 and thus inherit the same deficiencies as parent claim 3.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-2,5,7,9-14 are objected to but are otherwise allowable.
The prior art of record either taken alone or in combination thereof fails to teach or reasonably suggest, a charging post controller with various functional modules connected by means of a PCB, comprising a monitoring unit, a direct-current main loop unit and a mounting and fixing unit which are associated with each other, the monitoring unit comprising functional modules formed by combining a PCB and an electronic circuit, the functional modules being electrically connected by the PCB, and some or all of the functional modules being mounted on the mounting and fixing unit, such that a laminated arrangement structure is formed between the monitoring unit, the direct-current main loop unit and the mounting and fixing unit, wherein the direct-current main loop unit comprises unit modules, each of the unit modules being mounted on a face or two faces of the monitoring unit, and the mounting and fixing unit comprises an element unit, a bracket and/or a protective shell.
Claims 3-4,6 and 8 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Citation of Prior art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
CN 206283291 U to Fan et al., (Fan) discloses the general state of the art regarding a new electric automobile direct current charging pile control system.
USPAT 9,917,529 B2 to Hattori et al., (Hattori) discloses a power conversion unit, power converter and method of manufacturing power converter.
USPAT 6,100,670 to Levesque discloses the general state of the art regarding multi-functional battery management module operable in a charging mode and a battery pack mode.
USPAT 7,135,836 B2 to Kutkut et al., (Kutkut) discloses a modular and reconfigurable rapid battery charger.
Conclusion
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M'BAYE DIAO
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2859
/M BAYE DIAO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2859 February 20, 2026