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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 .
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.
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.
Claims 1 & 7-9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Takahashi (US 2020/0403467).
Regarding Claim 1, Yuki discloses a rotor housing [40] for use in a rotor [10] of a rotating electric machine [rotating electrical machine is equipped with a rotor and a stator] (FIG. 1, 5, Abstract; A rotating electrical machine is equipped with a rotor and a stator), comprising:
a cylindrical portion [30] that is cylindrical and holds a magnet [33] of the rotor [10] (FIG. 1, 5);
an end plate portion [20] joined to an axial end [top of 30] of the cylindrical portion [30] and to which a shaft [11] serving as a rotating shaft is fixed (FIG. 1, 5); and
a cylindrical extension portion [63] provided at an end portion [bottom of 30] of the cylindrical portion [30] opposite to the end plate portion [20] in an axial direction and extending axially outward beyond an arrangement area of the magnet [42] (FIG. 1, 5);
wherein the cylindrical portion [30] and the end plate portion [20] are each formed as separate bodies and are joined together to form an integrated body [FIG. 5 shows each element as separate bodies], while the cylindrical portion [30] and the cylindrical extension portion [63] are each formed as separate bodies and are joined together to form an integrated body [FIG. 5 shows each element as separate bodies] (FIG. 1, 5, also FIG. 1 shows all the recited element “joined together”).
Regarding Claim 7, Yuki discloses the rotor housing according to claim 1 [see rejected Claim 1], wherein
the cylindrical portion [30] is formed of a magnetic material [because of 33] (FIG. 5), and
the end plate portion [20] is made of a material that is non-magnetic [shafts are no] and lighter than the cylindrical portion [30] (FIG. 5, 30 is smaller than 20 and therefore “lighter”).
Regarding Claim 8, Yuki discloses the rotor housing according to claim 1 [see rejected Claim 1], wherein
the end plate portion [20] has a disk portion [21] extending in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction, and a shaft fixing portion [23] provided on a radial center side of the disk portion [21] and fixing the shaft (FIG. 5), and
the disk portion and the shaft fixing portion are formed separately from each other and are joined together to form an integral body (FIG. 5 shows all elements as separate and FIG. 1 forming the integral body).
Regarding Claim 9, Yuki discloses the rotor housing according to claim 1 [see rejected Claim 1], wherein
the cylindrical portion [30] and the end plate portion [20] have different thicknesses, and the thickness of the cylindrical portion [30] is greater than the thickness of the end plate portion [20] (FIG. 5).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 2-6 & 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
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/JOSEPH ORTEGA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2834
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