Appeal No. 2000-0706
Application No. 08/675,665
wherein the secondary winding, the input terminals, and the second
circuit are coupled together such that the second circuit is supplied by a
voltage whose amplitude is equal to the sum of the first DC voltage and
the second DC voltage in order to transfer some power from the voltage
source directly to the secondary circuit without passing through the
transformer,
thereby avoiding power loss that would result if the power directly
transferred from the voltage source to the secondary circuit were instead
transferred to the secondary circuit through the transformer.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Tap 3,079,525 Feb. 26, 1963
Stevens 4,277,728 Jul. 07, 1981
Claims 1, 2, and 4-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph as
failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter appellants regard
as the invention. Claims 1, 2, and 4-61 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Stevens in view of Tap.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 22, mailed Oct. 26, 1999) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 20.5, filed Jul. 27, 1999) for
appellants' arguments thereagainst.
1The examiner withdrew the rejection of claim 7 and indicated that the claim would be allowable if
rewritten to overcome the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112. (Final rejection, page 4, Paper no. 18.)
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