Appeal No. 2005-2437
Application No. 09/682,642
(26, figure 1) and the component of Nagashima’s motor immediately
to the left of the bearing on the right side of the motor
indicates that one of ordinary skill in the art would have
considered the component to be a commutator which, like the
appellant’s commutator, is fixed to the rotor shaft. Because
Nagashima’s motor is an assembled unit, the brush carrier
necessarily is fixed to the stator shell directly or indirectly.
For the above reasons we are not convinced of reversible
error in the examiner’s rejection of claim 16. Accordingly, we
affirm the rejection of claim 16, and claims 1 and 17 that stand
or fall therewith.
Claim 10
The appellant argues that it is speculation whether the
structure on the right side of Nagashima’s figure 1 is a
commutator and brush.
The appellant’s claim 10 requires that first and second end
caps of a stator shell are fixed to each other by threaded
fasteners and that the stator shell is sandwiched therebetween.
Nagashima’s figure 1 shows a threaded fastener at the lower part
of the motor housing, and shows that the fastener fixes together
the stator shell’s two end caps with the stator shell being
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