Ex Parte Gabrys - Page 5



            Appeal 2007-0022                                                                                 
            Application 10/148,935                                                                           
                   • whether Appellant has shown that the Examiner erred in finding a                        
                      motivation to combine the teachings of Nakayama and Rabenhorst.                        

                                           FINDINGS OF FACT                                                  
                   We find the following facts by a preponderance of the evidence:                           
                   1. Rabenhorst discloses an elastic joint for mounting and rotatably                       
            coupling a flywheel to a shaft (Rabenhorst, Abstract).                                           
                   2. Rabenhorst discloses that the elastic joint can be used with flywheel                  
            structures having a shaft extending through the structure and with solid disc-type               
            flywheels without a through-hole (Rabenhorst, col. 2, ll. 10-17 and col. 3, ll. 22-              
            25).                                                                                             
                   3. Rabenhorst further discloses that the elastic joint can be used with                   
            filament flywheels or conventional isotropic steel flywheels (Rabenhorst, col. 3, ll.            
            15-20).                                                                                          
                   4. The rotor 16 shown in the embodiment of Figure 1 of Rabenhorst is                      
            described as “comprising anisotropic elements wound about the hub 14”                            
            (Rabenhorst, col. 3, ll. 31-34).                                                                 
                   5. Rabenhorst shows in Figure 6 an embodiment having a flywheel rotor                     
            112 and states, “rotor 112 has no central aperture formed therein” (Rabenhorst, col.             
            5, ll. 55-56).  Rabenhorst provides no disclosure as to the specific material or                 
            construction of rotor 112.                                                                       
                   6. The flywheel rotor 112 of Figure 6 is depicted in a similar fashion to                 
            rotor 16 of Figure 1.                                                                            

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