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) 1,2,3,9,13-15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by (2021/099041) Sun et al as cited by Applicant .
Sun et al discloses electric motor see fig 3 and 4 , a rotor (45) , a stator (41) comprising a stator core and windings (44), a magnetic low pass filter comprising a coil (48) having one or more turns and one or more capacitors (76) connected in series with coil. Paragraph 42. Wherein excitation of winding generates stator flux, coil is linked to stator flux and filter attenuates harmonics in the stator flux , see paragraphs 38-42.
Dependent claims 2, 2, 9, 13-15 such as one or more magnets is shown fig 3 reference 47 , and filter has resonant frequency greater than running frequency is shown in paragraph 42 .
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) s 4-8, 10-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Sun et al in view of JP2017028803 both cited by Applicant.
Sun et al as disclosed above lacks disclosing magnets segments and coil of filter wound about magnet, . JP2017028803 discloses magnet segments and coil of filter wound Abou magnet, see fig 3 .
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to combine the motor of Sun et al with magnet segments and coil wound about magnet of JP2017028803 for improved control.
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