Appeal 2006-2965
Application 10/320,628
The Examiner contends that Ohshita teaches the claimed predetermined
slack by using a longitudinal rod to form enough slack in the winding to
prevent breakage in the windings due to changes in the temperature of the
stator (Examiner’s Answer, 5,7). The Examiner therefore concludes that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to combine
AAPA with Ohshita to yield the claimed invention.
We affirm.
ISSUES
The pivotal issue in the appeal before us is as follows:
Under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a), would one of ordinary skill in the art at the time
of the present invention, have found the AAPA-Ohshita combination renders
the claimed invention unpatentable when Ohshita teaches forming slack
portions by removing from the windings a previously inserted rod member
subsequently to joining the winding ends to the terminal pins?
FINDINGS OF FACT
Appellants invented a rotation angle detector (10) for detecting a
rotational position of a rotor in a dynamo electric machine. (Specification 1).
Particularly, the invention aims at providing a predetermined amount of
slack in the wound portions (figure 6, element R1, R2; figure 8, element S1,
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