Appeal No. 2001-0648
Application No. 07/702,615
(Paper No. 59) for the respective positions of appellant and the
examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that in accordance with appellant’s
grouping of the claims, at page 4 of the brief, claims 48, 51-58,
60-67, 72 and 75-79 will stand or fall together and claim 93 will
stand or fall alone.
We further note that while the appendix to the brief shows
claim 53 depending from a nonexistent claim 43, claim 53 should
depend from claim 48.
Turning first to claim 48, the examiner takes the position
that Mabuchi teaches a motor having two sets of diametrically
opposed brush assemblies wherein each assembly has two brushes 1
contacting the same segment 4 of a cylindrical commutator. The
examiner identifies each brush as having a brush body 1 and a
support arm 2. However, the examiner recognizes that Mabuchi
does not disclose that each support arm is of a different
resonant frequency due to different materials. Thus, the
examiner turns to Kojima for a teaching of brush arms with
different weights due to different dimensions. The examiner
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