CTNF 18/861,931 CTNF 91300 DETAILED ACTION This office action is in response to claims filed on 10/31/2024. Claims 1-10 are pending. Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Priority 02-26 AIA Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55. Information Disclosure Statement 06-52 The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 10/31/2024 was filed on the filing date of the application. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (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. 07-15 AIA Claim s 1-2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102( a)(1 ) as being anticipated by Yoshiura et al. US 20130057191 A1 (Hereinafter “Yoshiura”) . Claim 1 , Yoshiura teaches a power conversion device (Fig. 1, 100) that drives a magnet motor (Fig. 1, 200), comprising: a first filter unit (Fig. 1, 7) that includes a primary system transfer function filter that varies in correspondence with a pulsating component of the magnet motor, and computes a second speed estimation value (Fig. 1, second motor speed) from a speed command value and a first speed estimation value (Fig. 1, First motor speed); a speed control unit (Fig. 1, 2) that computes a first torque current command value (Fig. 1, first torque command) from the speed command value and the second speed estimation value (Fig. 1, second motor speed); and a second filter unit (Fig. 1, 3) that includes a secondary system transfer function filter that varies in correspondence with the pulsating component, and computes a second torque current command value (Fig. 1, second torque command) from the first torque current command value, wherein power to be supplied to the magnet motor is controlled on the basis of the second torque current command value (Claim 1, the torque controller being configured to acquire the second torque command so as to control a torque of the motor, the thrust controller being configured to acquire the second thrust command so as to control a thrust of the motor). Claim 2 , Yoshiura teaches the power conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the first filter unit has a parameter relating to the speed command value ([0071]), and computation including the parameter is performed from the first speed estimation value to obtain the second speed estimation value ([0072]) . Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 Claim s 3-10 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. Conclusion 07-96 AIA The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Takaki et al. US 20150244298 A1 teaches estimating a first estimated phase value relating to an estimated phase of a rotor based on a rotary electric machine current flowing through a rotary electric machine; acquiring, based on a second estimated phase value corresponding to the first estimated phase value, from correction information storing a plurality of the second estimated phase values and a plurality of correction values in association with each other, one of the plurality of correction values associated with the second estimated phase value, and correcting the second estimated phase value based on the one of the plurality of correction values; calculating a speed command based on a position command and the corrected second estimated phase value; and calculating one of a torque command value and a q-axis current command value based on the speed command and the corrected second estimated phase value . 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