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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 .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of pre-AIA 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) 1-6, 10 and 11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Domenger et al WO 2015128571.
Domenger et al discloses a bank of capacitor for an automotive vehicle electronic power module comprising: a capacitance block 14 comprising a differential LC filter 16 comprising a capacitor 17 and differential inductors and three capacitors 42)
Figure 4, shows a positive busbar 25 (i.e. a first bus bar) ,a negative busbar 26 (i.e. a second bus bar), and capacitors 17 and 42 , wherein the capacitors are directly connected to each of the positive and negative busbars by a material-locking and electrically conductive connection (laser weld) (per claims 2 and 3)
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With regards to claim 4, each busbar 25 26 is designed configured as a sheet at least in an area of the connection.
With regards to claim 5, the capacitors comprises a positive pin 11 and negative pines (i.e. one connecting wire) per busbar, each of which is connected to the respective busbar .
With regards to claim 6, each positive and negative pins extends in the area of the connection substantially orthogonally to a sheet plane of the respective busbar .
With regards to claim 10, the automotive vehicle electronic power module further comprises
a power module 15 (DC/AC) (i.e. a power electronic component ) , and the differential LC filter 16 .
The differential LC filter 16 comprising a capacitor 17 and differential inductors 19 . Figure 4, shows a positive busbar 25 (i.e. a first bus bar) ,a negative busbar 26 (i.e. a second bus bar), and capacitors 17 and 42 , wherein the capacitors are directly connected to each of the positive and negative busbars by a material-locking and electrically conductive connection (laser weld) .
With regards to claim 11, the power module 15 (DC/AC) is an inverter.
Domenger et al states “ Nowadays, the development of the power electronics makes it possible to produce a reversible AC / DC converter block, that is to say, operating either as a rectifier or as an inverter to power a single reversible polyphase rotating electrical machine which advantageously replaces the starter and the alternator.”
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 7-9 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.
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August 5, 2026
/K.E.G/Examiner, Art Unit 2843
/ANDREA LINDGREN BALTZELL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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