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 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 1-12 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.
In claims 1, 12, line 17, respectively the phrase “which of the motors to allow to generate heat” is not clear.
Claims 2-11 are also rejected for incorporating the deficiencies of their base claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 12 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 prior art does not specifically disclose a motor control system to be applied to an electric vehicle, the motor control system comprising: a battery; a motor including a rotor and a stator; two inverter circuits coupled to the stator of the motor and configured to control driving and regeneration of the motor; one or more processors configured to control driving of the two inverter circuits; and a cooling water circuit including a cooling water pump and configured to circulate cooling water through at least the battery and the motor, the motor control system comprising motors each being the motor and pairs of two inverter circuits each being the two inverter circuits, the stator of each of the motors being coupled to the two inverter circuits of a corresponding one of the pairs of two inverter circuits, the one or more processors being configured to drive the cooling water pump to circulate cooling water, and drive each of the two inverter circuits to apply oppositely directed rotational torques to the rotor, to warm up the battery with cooling water heated by heat generation of the motors, and the one or more processors being configured to, while warming up the battery, switch, at predetermined timing, which of the motors to allow to generate heat.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Hotta (U.S. Pub No. 20160211767) discloses an inverter controller is configured to control an inverter device. The inverter device is configured to generate a drive voltage of an AC load by a switching operation of a switching element that a reflux diode is connected to. The inverter controller is configured to perform a control of setting a switching speed of the switching element to be smaller on a lower level side of a magnitude of a current flowing in the AC load than on a higher level side of the magnitude of the current.
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/GERTRUDE ARTHUR JEANGLAUDE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3661