Appeal No. 2002-0875
Application 09/212,127
containing the permanent magnets 2. See page 13 of Appellants’
Specification.
Independent claim 1, present in the application, is
reproduced as follows:
1. An electric motor, which comprises:
a drive wheel;
a structure to which said drive wheel is rotatably
attached;
one or more permanent magnets attached to said
drive wheel with opposite magnetic poles adjacent to one another;
one or more electromagnets attached to said
structure and arranged generally in a plane that is substantially
parallel to, but not within, the plane or planes containing said
permanent magnets, said electromagnets being sufficiently close
to said permanent magnets that the magnetic fields of said
electromagnets and said permanent magnets will interact with one
another;
a sensor that determines the location of said
permanent magnets;
a switch for activating said electromagnets by
connecting said electromagnets to a source of electrical power;
and
a computer, said computer being capable of
receiving input of the desired speed of rotation for said drive
wheel, said computer being in communication with said sensor so
that said computer is informed by said sensor about the location
of said permanent magnets, said computer also being in communi-
cation with said switch in order to close said switch, said
computer being capable of being programmed to produce a signal
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