Appeal No. 2002-0831
Application 08/250,286
a plurality of switches positionable in a plurality of
switch settings connected to said processor, wherein preselected
switch settings correspond to one of the appliance environments
such that a user positions said plurality of switches in a
desired switch setting to select a corresponding appliance
environment, said microcontroller being programmed to read the
switch setting and in response thereto, obtain the system
operating characteristic information corresponding to the
selected appliance environment from said second memory so as to
permit said system to be used in different appliance
environments; and
programming means operatively attachable to said processor
and removable therefrom for loading dynamoelectric machine
information associated with said appliance environments into said
second memory to enable said drive apparatus to be altered for
use with a variety of dynamoelectric machines in different
appliance environments.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Toyoshima et al. (Toyoshima) Re. 34,286 June 22, 1993
The admitted prior art of appellants’ specification.
Claims 35-39, 44, 45 and 47-58 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as containing subject matter which
was not described in the specification in such a way as to
reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the
inventors, at the time the application was filed, had possession
of the claimed invention. Claims 35-39, 44, 45 and 47-58 also
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness
the examiner offers Toyoshima and the admitted prior art.
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