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 § 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 1-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over JP H1035969, in view of JP 20017052571.
Regarding claims 1 and 6, JP ‘969 discloses a paper winder 11 that winds a paper 12 (web like material, which includes paper), the paper winder comprising a first winding core 13a that is provided in a first arm (left side of 16a-b) turning centering on a rotation shaft 17a-b and on which the paper would be wound, a first motor (left side 19) that drives the first winding core 13a, a second winding core 13b that is provided in a second arm (right side of 16a-b) turning centering on the rotating shaft 17a-b and on which the paper should be wound next to the first winding core 13a, a second motor (right side 19) that drives the second winding core 13b, and a controller 46 (i.e., controls each motor with respect to the torque value, see figure 3) that performs rotation control for the first motor (left side 19) and the second motor (right side 19), wherein the controller 46 is configured to, in the rotation control, after completion of the winding of the paper by the first winding core 13a and after, according to the turning of the second arm (right side of 16a-b), a position where the paper should be wound, during an operation of cutting using a pressure contact unit 25 rather than a traverse cutter that cuts the paper near the second winding core 13b, when a torque value (TQ1, see figure 3) is equal to or larger than a torque reference value (48, 53), switch a control mode of the second motor from speed control to torque control and perform tension correction control for adjusting the torque value of the second motor (using 50) such that tension of the paper falls within a target range (using 46, see figure 3), see figures 1-5.
JP ‘571 discloses a traverse cutter 61 that cuts the paper W near the second winding core, see figures 1-8.
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention was made to modify the apparatus of JP ‘969 to include a traverse cutter as suggested by JP ‘571, in order to show another way of cutting the web material. Furthermore, since all of the claimed elements were known in the prior art and one skilled in the art could have combined the elements as claimed by known methods with no change in their respective functions, and the combination would have yielded predictable results to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention.
Regarding claims 2-5, as stated above, JP ‘969 discloses the torque reference value is a torque value (48) of the first motor (left side 19) and a torque value (53) of the second motor (right side 19) which each motor has control means (49, 50) to adjust a mechanical loss (i.e., speed control based on the value, claims 3-5) at a time when the tension (Te) of the paper at a time of the winding of the paper by the first winding core 13a immediately before the paper is wound by the second winding core 13b is within the target range, see figure 3.
Conclusion
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/SANG K KIM/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3654