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 § 102
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)(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.
Claim(s) 1-4, 6, 8-10 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Arima et al (11,590,961).
Arima et al teaches converting a target trajectory of the motor vehicle into a target movement of the motor vehicle (see col. 3 line 17-49); determining wheel-specific target longitudinal and target transverse slip values (see col. 4 line 20 through col. 5 line 43) for the wheels based on the target movement using a vehicle and tire model; and adjusting (see col. 8 line 40-45) actual longitudinal and actual transverse slip values of the wheels to the respective target longitudinal and target transverse slip values by the electromechanical braking system and the electric drive system as a function of a steering angle of the steer-by-wire steering system.
For claim 3 (see col. 7 line 65 through col. 8 line 8).
For claim 4 (see col. 6 line 43-57).
For claim 6 (see col. 7 line 24-32).
For claim 8 (see col. 3 line 17-49, figures 1-2).
For claim 10 (see col. 2 line 34-41).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 5, 7 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
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/HAI H HUYNH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3747