Appeal No. 95-3194
Application 08/020,232
Finegold is directed to a dynamoelectric field assembly
for use in the starter motor of an automobile. Finegold teaches
a stator and rotor having magnetic pole pieces. The pole pieces
of Finegold’s stator are surrounded by coils of strapping or foil
wire. The motor of Finegold is not a variable reluctance motor.
Each of Obradovic, Konecny and the admitted prior art teaches a
conventional variable reluctance electric motor. Such a motor is
described as having a stator and a rotor with magnetic pole
pieces. The coils around the stator pole pieces of these motors
are presumed to be formed from conventional conductive wire
having a circular cross section. Such wire does not meet the
definition of foil wire. The coils in Obradovic, Konecny and the
admitted prior art are selectively and independently controlled
to cause movement of the rotor relative to the stator. It is the
position of the examiner that it would have been obvious to the
artisan to use the strapping or foil wire of Finegold with the
variable reluctance motors of Obradovic, Konecny or the admitted
prior art [answer, pages 3-4].
With respect to claim 1, appellants argue that the
Finegold structure is so different from the structures disclosed
in the other references that a person having ordinary skill in
the art would not have considered them in combination [brief,
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