DETAILED ACTION
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 .
This non-final office action is responsive to Applicants' application filed on 06/17/24. Claims 1-8 are presented for examination and are pending for the reasons indicated herein below.
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.
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.
Claims 1-2 and 7 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Li et al. (US 20180191288 A1)
Regarding claim 1. Li teaches a power conversion apparatus [fig1] comprising: a rectifier [2] to rectify an alternating-current voltage input from an alternating-current power supply to convert the alternating-current voltage into a direct- current link voltage [i.e. 1 to 3];
a capacitor [3] to be charged with the direct-current link voltage converted by the rectifier;
a power applier [4] to convert the direct-current link voltage with which the capacitor is charged into an alternating-current voltage by switching the direct-current link voltage, and output the alternating-current voltage to a load [5];
and a power-applier controller [6] to control the power applier, wherein the power-applier controller controls the power applier such that a second beat [beat 41 after 0.4s in fig 8b] is superimposed on a load current [imposed in 40, fig 8a], the second beat having a second frequency [beat 41 after 0.4s in fig 8b has a second frequency] different from a first beat [beat 41 before 0.4s in fig 8b] having a first frequency included in the load current [i.e. rippled current shown in 40 before 0.4s],
and the second beat having at least one of an amplitude or a phase aligned [i.e. interpreted as correcting] with the first beat [See fig 8b with 8a after time 0.4 is shown that second beat 41 puts 40 into a corrected state relative to one and another].
Regarding claim 2. Li teaches the power conversion apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power-applier controller includes: a cancellation voltage calculator [10 with 12 with 15 with 19 and hereinafter as A, fig 4] to detect at least one of an amplitude or a phase of a first beat included in the load current [¶39-¶41], calculate a second beat in which at least one of an amplitude or a phase is aligned with the detected first beat, and output a voltage command [output of cited A] including the calculated second beat as a cancellation voltage [i.e. suppression voltage to 14];
and a switching signal generator [18] to correct a command value such that the second beat is superimposed, based on a cancellation voltage input from the cancellation voltage calculator [function of 18].
Regarding claim 7. Li teaches an air conditioner comprising: the power conversion apparatus according to claim 1; a refrigeration cycle device; and a blower [¶66].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-6 and 8 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, and if the claim objections stated above were overcome.
Examiner Note
The examiner cites particular columns and lines numbers in the references as applied to the claims above for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested that, in preparing responses, the applicant fully consider the references in their entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the examiner.
Conclusion
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/BRYAN R PEREZ/Examiner, Art Unit 2838