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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) 1-5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Dao et al., US Patent. No. (10367239) referred to hereinafter as Dao.
As per claim 1, Dao teaches a control system comprising: a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a battery mounted on a vehicle (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8); a heater that heats the battery; a battery control unit that detects a charge state of the battery and controls an operating state of the heater (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8); and a control unit that controls a drive device that operates with power supplied from the battery and gives an instruction related to the operating state of the heater to the battery control unit As per claim 1, Dao teaches a, wherein when the temperature of the battery is lower than a predetermined temperature threshold and the charge state of the battery is higher than a predetermined charge level, the control unit gives a heat generation instruction indicating that the heater generates heat to the battery control unit (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8), and when the temperature of the battery is lower than the temperature threshold and the charge state of the battery is equal to or lower than the charge level, the control unit gives a stop instruction indicating that the heater is stopped or a suppression instruction indicating that an amount of heat generated by the heater is suppressed to the battery control unit, and limits power consumption of the drive device (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8).
As per claim 2, Dao teaches a control system according to claim 1, wherein when the temperature of the battery is lower than the temperature threshold and the charge state of the battery is equal to or lower than the charge level, the control unit more strongly limits power consumption of the drive device as a difference between the temperature of the battery and the temperature threshold is larger (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8).
As per claim 3, Dao teaches a control system according to claim 1, wherein the drive device includes a motor mounted on the vehicle, and the control unit limits power consumption of the drive device by limiting a rotation speed of the motor (see at least abstract, summary, C7L15-26, C8L20-25, C7L50-60, C19L1-50, C20L26-65, Claim 1, 8).
As per claims 4-5, the limitations of claims 4-5 are similar to the limitations of claims 1-3, therefore they are rejected based on the same rationale.
Conclusion
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/MUSSA A SHAAWAT/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3669
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