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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because Fig 2 box 24 , fig 5 box 39 and fig 6 box 40 need to be labelled descriptively with text . 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.
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) 1,2,5,10-15,17-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by DE102014201903 cited by Applicant .
DE 102014201903 discloses in fig 1 an externally excited electric synchronous machine copsing a machine rotor (LER) including a rotor shaft and machine rotor coil non rotatably arranged on rotor shaft , machine rotor coil (LER) a magnetic rotor filed during operation and machine rotor coil including first rotor terminal and second rotor coil terminal , machine stator including stator coil fixed relative to machine stator , the at least one machine stator coil providing magnetic stator field during operation which interacts with rotor field such that machine rotor rotates about an axial axis of rotation during operation, a transformer secondary coil ( L1R) configured to electrically supply machine rotor coil , the transformer secondary coil non rotatably fixed to machine rotor, rectifier circuit (2R) connected between transformer secondary coil and machine rotor coil , rectifier circuit configured to convert a transformer voltage induced in transformer secondary coil into a dc voltage during operation , rectifier circuit including a first rectifier terminal and second rectifier terminal, a protection circuit (3R) configured to protect rectifier circuit from overvoltage the protection circuit including a first protection terminal connected to first rectifier terminal an second protection terminal connected to second rectifier terminal, first protection terminal connected to first rotor coil terminal and second protection terminal connected to second rotor coil terminal such that protection circuit is connected in parallel between machine rotor and rectifier circuit , a switch ( T1R) arranged between second rectifier terminal and second protection terminal and trigger circuit( L2R) connected to switch and configured to open switch for demagnetizing machine rotor coil . See Fig 1 and paragraphs 27-57 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 3,4,6,7,8,9,16,20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over DE102014201903 as cited above in view of DE102014209607 disclosed by Applicant and Frampton et al (2016/0149528).
DE102014201903 as disclosed above lacks voltage divider and wireless and ammeter . DE102014209607 discloses in fig 4 voltage divider . Frampton et al discloses wireless paragraph 235 and ammeter in background paragraph 4 . It would have been obvious to one before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine the synchronous machine of DE 102014201903 with voltage divider of DE102014209607 and ammeter and wireless of Frampton et al for improved control .
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/KAREN MASIH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2846