Appeal No. 2005-0868
Application 09/969,728
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim an apparatus and method for protecting
an engine starter against overheating. Claim 7, which claims the
method, is illustrative:
7. A method of protecting an engine starter against
overheating by measuring a supply voltage for said engine
starter, comprising:
a first step of detecting at least one of frequency
information and amplitude information of a waveform representing
variation of said supply voltage as voltage waveform information;
and
a second step of controlling a conduction time period of
said engine starter in accordance with said voltage waveform
information.
THE REFERENCES
Makaran 5,744,921 Apr. 28, 1998
Hayashida 5,744,927 Apr. 28, 1998
Murakami et al. 6,054,826 Apr. 25, 2000
(Murakami)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-23 and 25 over the combined
disclosures of Murakami and Makaran, and claims 4, 11, 18 and 24
over the combined disclosures of Murakami, Makaran and Hayashida.
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