Appeal No. 2002-0816
Application No. 09/442,895 Page 7
228 USPQ 685, 686 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re Piasecki, 745 F.2d
1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re
Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
The examiner takes the position (answer, page 4) that
Shirakawa does not disclose “a magnet carrier fixed for rotation
with said rotor and the magnet carrier carrying a second
plurality of circumferentially spaced permanent magnets.
Shirakawa uses no magnet carrier. Shirakawa just mounts the
magnet (7) directly on the shaft (4). ” In addition, the examiner
(answer, page 11) acknowledges that Shirakawa does not show first
and second pluralities of circumferentially spaced magnets. To
overcome these deficiencies in Shirakawa, the examiner turns to
Knappe for a teaching of a magnet carrier, and to Carrier for a
teaching of pluralities of circumferentially spaced magnets
having alternating N and S poles.
Appellant asserts (brief, page 4) that Knappe does show a
magnet carrier, but that the carrier only carries a single
magnet, and that Knappe and Shirakawa fail to disclose a
plurality of circumferentially spaced magnets. Appellant further
asserts (id.) that although Carrier shows a second plurality of
circumferentially spaced magnets, in Carrier, the outer housing
rotates around a fixed armature. Appellant additionally asserts
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