Appeal No. 2002-0816
Application No. 09/442,895 Page 2
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:
1. A rotating electrical machine having an outer housing
carrying a stator, a rotor journaled within said outer housing
for rotation about a rotor axis and cooperating with said stator,
said stator being formed by a plurality of armatures having poles
and surrounding radially extending armatures windings, a first
plurality of circumferentially spaced permanent magnets carried
on said rotor for cooperation with said armature, and a magnet
carrier fixed for rotation with said rotor for cooperation with a
detector fixed to said outer housing for controlling said
armature windings, said magnet carrier carrying a second
plurality of circumferentially spaced permanent magnets spaced
axially from said first plurality of circumferentially spaced
permanent magnets and disposed radially inwardly of a radial
inner periphery of said armature windings.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Riggs et al. (Riggs) 4,311,933 Jan. 19, 1982
Stokes 4,792,712 Dec. 20, 1988
Shirakawa 4,982,125 Jan. 1, 1991
Shiraki et al. (Shiraki) 5,225,725 Jul. 6, 1993
Knappe 5,565,721 Oct. 15, 1996
Carrier et al. (Carrier) 5,717,268 Feb. 10, 1998
Claims 6-9 and 11-14 have been rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claims 1, 2, 5, 10, and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Shirakawa in view of Knappe
and Carrier.
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