Appeal Number: 2006-3046
Application Number: 10/130,596
shaft 12 extending along a first axis SH1 (Fig. 1 and col. 3, lines 52-
54). Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram that includes the engine 11 and the
output shaft 12. Fig. 2 is the only drawing that illustrates the engine
11. Fig. 2 and the corresponding description for the engine 11 fail to
provide any disclosure with regard to the structural details of the
engine 11 or the position of a cylinder within the engine 11.
Yamaguchi fails to provide any additional disclosure with regard to
the engine 11 because Yamaguchi is directed toward improving a
drive unit that includes a drive motor 25, a generator-motor 16 and an
inverter unit 50 (and not the engine 11). In other words, Yamaguchi
only briefly discloses the engine 11 in the schematic diagram of Fig. 2
in order to illustrate how the engine 11 interacts with the drive unit.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram that includes an engine 11 and an
output shaft 12 connected to the engine 11. Cylinders presumably
exist within engine 11. However, Yamaguchi fails to provide any
disclosure or suggestion with regard to the location of the cylinders or
a cylinder axis within the engine 11, or the location of the cylinders or
the cylinder axis relative to the output shaft 12. Yamaguchi thus fails
to provide any guidance with regard to disposing an electronic circuit
in any position relative to the cylinder axis of the engine 11 because
Yamaguchi fails to provide any indication of the location of the
cylinders or the cylinder axis within the engine 11.
Because Yamaguchi only discloses a schematic diagram of the engine
11, the Examiner must rely on hindsight reconstruction to suggest a
specific position of the cylinders or the cylinder axis within the engine
11 or suggest a position of the inverter unit 50 and the control unit 51
relative to a direction of the vibrations caused by the engine 11. The
engine 11 presumably exists within an engine compartment of
Yamaguchi's vehicle. However, Yamaguchi fails to provide any
disclosure as to whether the engine 11 is a V-type multi-cylinder
engine, an in-line multi-cylinder engine, a horizontally opposed multi-
cylinder engine, a rotary engine, or another type of engine.
Yamaguchi also fails to disclose where the cylinders or the cylinder
axis in the previously mentioned engines are located relative to the
inverter unit 50 and the control unit 51. It is impermissible to use
Appellants' claims as a template in order to suggest a location for the
cylinders or the cylinder axis relative to Yamaguchi's inverter unit 50
and control unit 51.
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