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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
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 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 –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 and 2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Zheng et al (US Pub No. 2025/0131905).
Regarding claim 1, Zheng teaches an electronic device (Abstract, electronic device), comprising a first housing (Fig 4, cover body 120), a second housing (Fig 4, enclosure frame 111), a speaker module (Figs 1 & 4, electroacoustic module 220), and a speaker bracket (Fig 4, second housing 212), wherein the first housing and the second housing are connected to each other along a thickness direction of the electronic device (Fig 4, cover body 120 and enclosure frame 111 connected along a thickness direction), and the second housing is further provided with a first sound outlet hole (Fig 4, second sound hole 1111) and a second sound outlet hole (Fig 4, first sound hole 310); the speaker module comprises a first sound emitting portion (Fig 4, second diaphragm 222) and a second sound emitting portion (Fig 4, first diaphragm 221), the first sound emitting portion faces the first housing (Fig 4, second diaphragm 222 facing cover body 120), and the second sound emitting portion faces the second housing (Fig 4, first diaphragm 221 facing enclosure frame 111); and the speaker bracket is provided with a communication cavity (Fig 4, second front cavity 102), the speaker bracket has a first connecting end (Fig 4, left of second housing 212) and a second connecting end arranged in the electronic device (Fig 4, right of second housing 212), the first connecting end is sealingly assembled to the first sound emitting portion (Fig 4, left of second housing 212 assembled over second diaphragm 222), the first sound emitting portion is capable of emitting a sound wave into the communication cavity (Fig 4, second diaphragm 222 emits into second front cavity 102), the second connecting end is sealingly assembled to the second housing (Fig 4, right of second housing 212 attached to enclosure frame 111), the communication cavity is in communication with the first sound outlet hole (Fig 4, second front cavity 102 connected to second sound output hole 1111), the second sound emitting portion is sealingly assembled to the second housing (Fig 4, first diaphragm 221 connected to enclosure frame 111), and the second sound emitting portion is capable of emitting a sound wave into the second sound outlet hole (Fig 4, first diaphragm 221 emits into first sound hole 310).
Regarding claim 2, Zheng teaches the electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the second housing is further provided with a first sound outlet cavity, and the first sound outlet cavity is configured to communicate with the first sound outlet hole and the communication cavity (Fig 4, front cavity sound transmission channel 1021).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-15 and 17-21 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Yang et al (CN-112839270) teaches a loudspeaker module comprising two sound producing surfaces producing sound in opposite directions as well as a first and second shell.
Guo (CN-114070913) teaches an electro-acoustic assembly comprising a first and second housing, a sealing assembly, as well as a front and back sound cavity.
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/T.M.L./Examiner, Art Unit 2694
/ALEXANDER KRZYSTAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2694
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