DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-10 of U.S. Application No. 18/757892 filed on 06/28/2024 are presented for examination.
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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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, 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.
Claims 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Cheng Xiao-Ke (CN 219229584; Hereinafter, “Cheng”) in view of Xie Wei-Qun (CN 113285547; Hereinafter, “Xie”).
Regarding claim 1: Cheng discloses a curtain motor (title), comprising:
a housing (1, 2, 5) and a motor core (31), a speed reducer (32) and a circuit board (6, 7) are disposed in the housing (1,2,5); the motor core (31) is fixedly connected (fig. 2) to the speed reducer (32), and also electrically connected to the circuit board (6), wherein a through hole (21, from which 331 extends; fig. 3, 8) used for an output end of the speed reducer to transmit power (since 331 is an output shaft) is opened at an end of the housing (fig. 4); a support in communication with the through hole is integrally formed inside this end of the housing (the ring surround hole 21 in fig. 8); the support is connected with the output end (fig. 8) of the speed reducer (32); a bracket (8) is further disposed in the housing (1), and the other end of the bracket is connected with the circuit board (6, and 7).
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Cheng does not clearly show one end of the bracket is connected with the motor core.
Xie discloses (see fig. 4) one end of the bracket (162) is connected with the motor core (130) and the other end is connected with the circuit board (140).
Therefore, it would have been obvious for a person having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to have formed the motor of Cheng with one end of the bracket is connected with the motor core as disclosed by Xie, to provide mechanical support in the axial direction, increasing the robustness of the curtain motor internal components.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10 are 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.
Regarding claim 2/1: the limitations of claim 2, “…reinforcing ribs integrally formed with the support are disposed at an inner side of the end of the front housing away from the rear cover; the reinforcing ribs are disposed along a periphery of the support” in the combination as claimed are neither anticipated nor obvious over the prior arts in record. Claims 3-10 are also objected-to for depending on claim 2.
Conclusion
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/AHMED ELNAKIB/Primary Examiner,
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