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 .
Claim Objections
Claim 9 is objected to because of the following informalities: claim 9 is a single run on paragraph with no pre-amble or line breaks, however “Where a claim sets forth a plurality of elements or steps, each element or step of the claim should be separated by a line indentation”, see MPEP 608.01(i). Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 9-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
The claims are generally narrative and indefinite, failing to conform with current U.S. practice. They appear to be a literal translation into English from a foreign document and are replete with grammatical and idiomatic errors. Applicant must avoid narrative language in the claimed system, and use positive claim language, non-limiting examples include:
Claim 9, “CHARACTERIZED because section S1…” uses unclear transitional claim language, furthermore this language is repeated in claims 10-13, and should use commonly accepted language such as “comprising”, “wherein” or “further comprising” as appropriate.
Claims 9-13, claims have multiple instances of use of “it” or “its” which is narrative and imprecise, in each case applicant must recite, using clear antecedent claim language terminology what is meant by “it” to overcome this rejection.
Claim 9, “some gear boxes (10)” “some” is narrative language and should preferably be deleted.
Regarding claim 9, there are two instances of “a Pelton turbine” and “a Pelton turbine (14)” leading to confusion whether these are the same or different; applicant should make these agree with using “the” or “said” and changing the first instance to “a Pelton turbine (14)” to overcome this rejection.
Regarding claim 9, each of sections S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 are expressed narratively by what is does, therefore has unclear boundaries, therefore the claim should specify what each section is comprised of, before narratively expressing what each section does to have clear metes and bounds.
Regarding claims 9-13, in claim 9, the recitations “a Halbach type magnet array (15)”, “the matrix (15) of magnets” are in disagreement; furthermore in claim 11, “the Halbach matrix type dies (15)” is further in disagreement. The reference character (15) must be recited in the exact same manner in each case.
Regarding claims 10 and 11, “three gearboxes (10)” in each claim is in disagreement with claim 9, “some gear boxes (10)”, and should explicitly say “wherein the gear boxes (10) comprise three gear boxes” or made to be in agreement with claim 9.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 9-13 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Regarding claim 9, the prior art does not teach or fairly suggest an arrangement comprising two systems, a mechanical system and an evaporation system, powered only by an electric motor, which includes a cardan shaft system connected to a crankshaft, the crankshaft then moves a system of levers which by means of a gearbox gives speed to a system of pistons and cylinders oriented radially around the crankshaft, which drive a Pelton turbine, which is driven by means of the mechanical system through twelve radial cylinders arranged in each section S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5, connected to a rotation axis, wherein section S1, compresses hydraulic liquid to rotate a Pelton turbine (14) keeping it in motion and setting in motion some gear boxes (10) which are connected to a Halbach type magnet array (15) connected to an induction plate (19) of aluminum or copper inducing an electric current which dissipates all its energy generating thermal energy, section S2, operates by sucking sea water, this is injected by means of sprinklers or nozzles (17) under pressure as a spray in order to diffuse the water and lower the thermodynamic capacity of the seawater, so as to evaporate it more quickly, section S3, is responsible for lowering the pressure inside an evaporation chamber (22), with all this the heat induced by the matrix (15) of magnets the low pressure, produces additionally the evaporation to the water injected in the form of mist through the nozzles (17), section S4, is in charge of injecting air to an atmosphere exchanger (23), which takes all the water vapor from the evaporation chamber (22), transfers it inside the exchanger of atmospheres (23), which takes all the water vapor from the evaporation chamber (22), the S4 section injects air from the atmosphere, which passes through impurity filters, thus increasing the pressure inside the atmosphere exchanger (23), when it reaches the ambient pressure, the water increases its thermodynamic resistance, the last section S5, like section S1, rotates the Pelton turbine (14), by means of the gearbox (10), so as to suck all the vapour from inside the evaporation chamber (22) and transfer it into an atmosphere exchanger (23), where the gearbox (10) transfers the water to a final disposal (25), where it is analysed and its solutes are checked.
Takita et al (US 2009/0110563) is regarded as the closest relevant prior art, Takita teaches a power recovery system for reducing the energy consumption in a seawater desalination plant including the delivery of a fluid under pressure (title, abstract), the system comprises a positive-displacement piston pump (23) which pumps part of the supply seawater (24) from the supply line (4), to a power recovery pump turbine (18) which comprises a turbine (14) having a turbine impeller and a booster pump (17) coupled together by means of a shaft (16), the seawater at high pressure discharged from the turbine impeller flows towards an turbine outlet line(27) which is connected to the outlet line (19) of the booster pump and supplies the seawater to the high pressure chamber (9) of a cartridge of a reverse osmosis membrane (8) (see title, abstract, [0002], [0005], [0018], [0019], [0036]; fig 1), Takita is silent to section S1, compresses hydraulic liquid to rotate a Pelton turbine (14) keeping it in motion and setting in motion some gear boxes (10) which are connected to a Halbach type magnet array (15) connected to an induction plate (19) of aluminum or copper inducing an electric current which dissipates all its energy generating thermal energy, and is also silent to the water evaporation system as claimed.
Chen (US 2013/0291532) teaches a tidal seawater desalination energy generation system (title, abstract), Chen teaches a seawater desalination treatment system (200) comprising a seawater evaporation tower (30), which can be optionally equipped with a water heater (33), at the bottom of the seawater evaporation tower (30) seawater is placed, a vacuum pump (32) is connected to the top portion of the seawater evaporation tower, seawater which is suctioned by the evaporation tower to form a negative pressure (A) therein, the negative pressure generated causes the water in seawater to be quickly evaporated and be suctioned by the vacuum pump (32) towards a condensation tower (31) through a pipe (36b), and the high pressure steam is sent to a coiled pipe (35) of the condensation tower and is cooled to be condensed, and finally obtaining the condensed fresh water (Fig 5, [0066]), however Chen is silent to the claimed association of the desalination system with the specific turbine plant as claimed in the manner claimed.
Pertinent Art
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Erlach (US 4,950,130) teaches a Pelton turbine. Warner (US 5,086,622) teaches environmental control system. Tzong (US 5,186,822) teaches water powered desalination. Filippone (US 2015/0128622) teaches exhaust water evaporation. Al-anzi (US 2022/0204374) teaches energy production with desalination. Riley (US 11,591,241) teaches desalination.
Conclusion
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/JONATHAN MILLER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1772