Appeal No. 2006-2752
Application No. 10/309,007
[0045] The five phase machine is applied to a
rectifier bridge 68 as shown in FIG. 16. Such a machine
is configured in a manner much like a three phase
machine, but with the use of ten diodes 70 rather than
the typical six. As with the three phase machine,
additional output can be extracted from the five phase
machine by tapping the zero sequence current from the
neutral of the star connected machine.
With the above discussion in mind, we find that with regard
to representative claim 1, Buening teaches an alternating current
generator (20) having a stator assembly (26) with a five-phase
winding distributed among a plurality of stator slots.
Particularly, as depicted in figures 5, 6, 8 and 9, Buening
discloses that the five-phase winding can be arranged in a star
or annular (pentagon) configuration. Further, as depicted in
figure 16, Buening discloses that the five-phase winding is
applied to a five-phase full rectifier bridge (68) such that
output voltages generated from the five-phase winding are
rectified by the five-phase full-wave rectifier. It is our view
that one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the present
invention would have readily found that Buening’s teaching of
rectifying the output voltages of the five-phase winding amounts
to the claimed limitation of connecting the annular-shaped
winding phase portions to the full-wave rectifier. The
ordinarily skilled artisan would have duly recognized from
Buening’s teachings that the five-phase windings connected to the
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