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 .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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 of this title, 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.
This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the claims the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the various claims was commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the claimed invention(s) absent any evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out the inventor and effective filing dates of each claim that was not commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the later invention in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(2)(C) for any potential 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) prior art against the later invention.
Claim (s) 1-6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Asakura et al. (US 7368664B2) hereinafter Asakura in view of Hofling (US 2018/0083404).
Regarding claim 1, Asakura discloses a composite electrical wire (Fig.1) comprising: a shielded electrical wire (11 and 12) that includes one insulated electrical wire (see 11) and a metallic shield (14) that covers an outer periphery of the insulated electrical wire (see 11); a lead wire (19); and a fixing member (43) that fixes the lead wire to the shielded electrical wire (12), wherein the metallic shield includes a covering part (see 16 in Fig.1) that covers an outer periphery of the shielded electrical wire (12), the lead wire (19) overlaps with the covering part ( folded part) and is electrically connected to the metallic shield (14), and the fixing member (18) presses the mutually-overlapping covering part and lead wire radially inward with respect to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1), and fixes the covering part and the lead wire to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1).
Asakura is silent with respect to the metal braid being a film like metal shield.
Hofling discloses a film like metal shield (22; Fig.1b; [0021]).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of claimed invention to use the teachings of Hofling to modify the metal shield of Asakura in order to provide superior electrical magnetic field interference protection to an insulated wire.
Regarding claim 2, Asakura discloses wherein the lead wire includes an electrical wire part ( conductor 20) and a terminal (end of conductor 20) attached to a conductor of the electrical wire part, the terminal overlaps with the covering part ( 20 overlaps with 16) and is electrically connected to the metallic shield (14), and the fixing member (18) presses the mutually-overlapping covering part and terminal radially inward with respect to the shielded electrical wire, and fixes the covering part and the terminal to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1).
Regarding claim 3, Asakura discloses a cylindrical member (17) that covers the outer periphery of the shielded electrical wire (12) and is attached to the outer periphery of the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1), wherein the fixing member (18) sandwiches the covering part (16) and the lead wire (20) between the fixing member (18) and the cylindrical member (17) and fixes the covering part and the lead wire to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1).
Regarding claim 4, Asakura discloses wherein the shielded electrical wire further includes an insulating sheath (15) that covers an outer periphery of the metallic shield (14), the metallic shield has an inside part that is covered with the sheath and a folded- back part (16) that is connected to the inside part, the folded-back part forms the covering part by sandwiching the sheath between the folded-back part and the inside part and covering an outer periphery of the sheath ( see part 15 between 16 and 14), the lead wire overlaps with the folded-back part and is electrically connected to the metallic shield (see Fig.1), and the fixing member presses the mutually-overlapping folded-back part and lead wire radially inward with respect to the shielded electrical wire, and fixes the folded-back part and the lead wire to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1).
Regarding claim 5, Asakura discloses wherein the shielded electrical wire further includes an insulating sheath (15) that covers an outer periphery of the metallic shield (14), the cylindrical member (17) covers an outer periphery of the sheath, the metallic shield has an inside part (14) that is covered with the sheath and a folded- back part (16) that is connected to the inside part, the folded-back part forms the covering part by sandwiching the sheath (15) and the cylindrical member (17) between the folded-back part (16) and the inside part (14) and covering the outer periphery of the sheath, the lead wire (20) overlaps with the folded-back part and is electrically connected to the metallic shield (14), and the fixing member (18) sandwiches the mutually-overlapping folded-back part and lead wire between the fixing member and the cylindrical member and fixes the folded- back part and the lead wire to the shielded electrical wire (see Fig.1).
Regarding claim 6, Asakura discloses the fixing member is formed as a ring-shaped swaging member (see 18 in Fig.1-2; 18 is swagged onto the wire).
Conclusion
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/PETE T LEE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2848