Appeal No. 2006-0554
Application 10/065,541
Brief has been filed) for the appellants’ positions, and to the
Answer for the examiner’s positions.
OPINION
We sustain the various rejections of the claims on
appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and 35 U.S.C. § 103 essentially for
the reasons set forth by the examiner in the Answer, as amplified
here.
At the outset, we note that the McGraw-Hill Dictionary
of Scientific and Technical Terms, Fifth Edition, 1994, at
page 400, states that cogging is “[v]ariations in torque and
speed of an electric motor due to variations in magnetic flux
as rotor poles move past stator poles.” This appears to be
essentially what the admitted prior art at Specification, pages 1
and 2, indicates anyway. What is significant about appellants’
own prior art assessment is that it was known that abnormal and
unpleasant noises exist after the power to a starter motor of a
vehicle is turned off, that is, after the engine to which the
starter motor is attached begins to operate on its own. Thus,
appellants’ continued arguments as to each of the rejections
that the applied prior art does not specifically teach
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