Appeal No. 95-3194
Application 08/020,232
page 6]. As noted above, Finegold teaches the details of a
starter motor for an automobile. The respective coils on the
stator of Finegold’s motor are connected to each other in series
so that an applied current will flow through the coils in
sequence. The variable reluctance motors of Obradovic, Konecny
and the admitted prior art have the various stator coils
unconnected to each other so that a current can be selectively
generated through any one of the coils. It is appellants’
position that the control of an automobile starter motor is so
different from the control of a variable reluctance motor that
the artisan would not consider using Finegold’s strapping or foil
wire for the coils in Obradovic, Konecny or the admitted prior
art.
When the breadth of claim 1 is considered, we agree with
the examiner that the invention recited therein would have been
obvious to the artisan within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 103. We
do not agree with appellants’ assertion that there is no basis to
combine the teachings of the applied references. All the
references relate to the control of movement of a rotor with
respect to a stator. All the references control this movement by
the generation of electromagnetic fields in coils surrounding the
pole pieces of the stator. The manner in which the coils are
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