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 figure 1 boxes 2,50,60,30,3 figure 2 boxes 62-1, 62-n, figure 3 boxes 69,64. 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.
Specification
The abstract of the disclosure is objected to because it should be 150 words or less . A corrected abstract of the disclosure is required and must be presented on a separate sheet, apart from any other text. See MPEP § 608.01(b).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 1-11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea without significantly more . The claims recite routine data gathering such as determining , filtering, generating . There is nothing else being done to the motor . The judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. Motor and sensor are generic . The fact that they add noise reduction is what we call “extra post solution “ and does not integrate the abstract idea into a practical application. Additional element does not integrate abstract idea into practical application because it does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing the abstract idea.
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) 1, 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over DE102018115148 in view of EP3294510 , both cited by Applicant .
DE102018115148 disclosed in current application on pages 1 and 2 disclose method for noise reduction during operation of motor using motor control loop , actual value of control variable determining rotary drive of motor to correspond to setpoint value of respective control variable supplied to motor control , and generating correction signal where amplitude of interference signal is reduced . DE 102018115148 lacks disclosing instantaneous rotation frequency and filtering frequency component , multiplied by specified factor greater than 1 . EP3294610 discloses determining instantaneous rotational frequency , see claim 1 and filtering frequency component correspond to instantaneous frequency of motor multiplied by specified factor greater than 1 , see claim 9 . It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine the method of noise reduction of DE102018115148 with filtering and instantaneous frequency of EP3294610 for improved control .
Claims 2-10 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Prior art does not disclose frequency of interference signal to specified integer multiple , control variable is sets torque , inverse Clarke transformation where space vector modulation based on control signals in stationary coordinate system , lower limit of specified acoustic frequency range is at least 20 Hz, and upper limit of acoustic frequency range is at most 20Khz, number of interference signal and/or frequencies are specified as function of instantaneous operating parameter , interference signal are specified as at least 3 times instantaneous rotational frequency of motor and specified at most 100 times , interference signal amplitude of respective interference signal reduce the respective specified noise reduction setpoint, nose reduction setpoint value is specified a function of at least one instantaneous operating parameter .
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. WO2021/033489A1 discloses suppress torque ripple and superposition.
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/KAREN MASIH/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2846
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