Appeal No. 1999-2097 Page 3
Application No. 08/621,988
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a method for producing an alternating
current dynamo-electric machine, such as the alternating current generators for
automobiles. Such devices comprise, inter alia, a stator core and a stator coil installed on
the core. The improvement provided by the appellants’ invention simplifies the assembly
of the core and the coil. As manifested in claim 1, the inventive method comprises the
steps of laminating a plurality of magnetic strips together to produce a laminated core
assembly with a regular parallelopiped shape having a plurality of slots, disposing a
generally flat-shaped coil assembly in the slots, and bending the laminated core assembly
together with the stator coil assembly to produce a cylindrical stator.
This claim stands rejected as being unpatentable over the combined teachings of
the Japanese publication, Huang and Barrett. Although not succinctly set forth, it appears
to be the examiner’s opinion that the Japanese reference discloses all of the subject
matter recited in the claim except for the step of disposing a generally flat-shaped stator
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