Appeal No. 2005-2042 Page 4
Application No. 09/946,298
Claim 11 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent
No. 6,111,332 ("Post"); U.S. Patent No. 3,176,206 ("Lund"); and U.S. Patent
No. 5,155,402 ("Bichler"). Claim 12 stand rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over
Post; Lund; Bichler; and U.S. Patent No. 6,353,273 ("Heshmat").
II. OPINION
Our opinion addresses the claims in the following order:
• claim 11
• claim 12.
A. CLAIM 11
Rather than reiterate the positions of the examiner or the appellant in toto, we
focus on the following points of contention therebetween:
- teachings of the references
- motivation to combine the teachings.
1. Teachings of the References
The examiner makes the following detailed findings.
(a) Appellant's claim 11 reads as following:
"An apparatus for restoring a rotor to an equilibrium position. . . .'' Post
(6,111,332) discloses having a rotor 10, which uses windings and Halbach
magnets for restoring the rotor to an equilibrium position (column 4,
lines 56-59).
(b) The claim further reads, "the stator including conductive loops and lap
windings, wherein the lap windings are interleaved with said conductive
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