Appeal No. 1998-1081
Application No. 08/462,202
embedded in the housing for carrying a circulating heat
removal fluid. The housing has a substantially cylindrical
wall formed of a thermally conductive material with the fluid
carrying conduit being disposed within the housing wall and in
thermally conductive contact with the wall material.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A housing for an electric motor comprising:
a substantially cylindrical cast housing wall formed
from a thermally conductive material; and
at least one fluid-carrying conduit embedded in said
housing wall;
said conduit having a tubular conduit wall distinct
from said housing wall and in thermally conductive
contact with said housing wall.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Bone 4,516,044
May 07, 1985
Molitor 4,540,045 Sep.
10, 1985
Claims 1-10 and 22-29 stand finally rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Bone in view of
Molitor.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the
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