Appeal No. 2005-2437
Application No. 09/682,642
The appellant argues that Nagashima’s starter motor shaft
end 2b is enclosed in the end plate 1a rather than extending
through it (brief, page 5).
The appellant’s claim 16 requires that the drive portion of
a rotor shaft extends through a first end cap. For the first end
cap the examiner relies upon the piece extending from the lower
left corner of magnetic switch 5 to below the roller bearing on
the left side of motor 2 in Nagashima’s figure 1 (answer,
page 10). Figure 1 shows that the drive portion of the rotor
shaft extends through that end cap.
The appellant argues that Nagashima does not disclose any
detail as to the structure and mounting arrangement of a
commutator and brushes and their carrier (reply brief, page 2).
The appellant’s claim 16 requires that a commutator is fixed
to a rotor shaft in electrical communication with rotor windings
and that a brush carrier is fixed to a stator shell and carries
brushes cooperating with the commutator. Claim 16 does not
require that the commutator or brush carrier are fixed directly
to, respectively, the rotor shaft and the stator shell. The
appellant does not dispute that Nagashima’s motor includes a
commutator, brushes and a brush carrier (reply brief, page 2).
The similarity of the illustration of the appellant’s commutator
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