Appeal No. 2006-2220
Application No. 09/813,348
argues that since the claims do not distinguish between a field
coil and an armature coil, the voltage controller may apply the
stepping-up voltage to either one (id.).
Appellants argue that in Kaneyuki the field coil 3 is
connected to the battery 12 (brief, page 6) while Glennon’s
stepped-up voltage is applied to the armature winding 54 of the
generator, instead of its field winding (brief, page 8). Appellants
further assert that an armature winding and a field coil are
positively recited in the claims, each requiring a specific
connection to the power supply (reply brief, page 2). Appellants
further challenge the Examiner’s characterization of the armature
windings in Figure 2 of Glennon as the claimed field coil and point
out that neither of the main armature winding 54 or the exciter
armature 52 may be taken as the claimed field coil (reply brief,
page 2).
After a review of Glennon, we disagree with the Examiner that
the stepped-up voltage is in any way applied to the field coil of
the alternator. Glennon, in fact, applies the stepped-up voltage
to the armature coil 54 of Figure 4 (col. 5, lines 1-5), which has
no link with the main field coil winding. Therefore, we agree with
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