Appeal 2006-3087
Application 09/821,553
INVENTION
The invention is directed to a system for designing charge storage
devices (e.g. a battery). See pages 1 and 2 of Appellants’ specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
A method for charge storage device (CSD) customer driven
charge storage device design comprising the steps of:
providing more than one model of a charge storage device, the
model adapted to convert at least one CSD customer inputted
requirement selected from the group consisting of energy density,
cycle life, rate capability, impedance, temperature range of operation
and/or survival, safety requirements, storage life, self-discharge
behavior, form factor, and cost into at least one CSD design;
providing an interface, the interface being adapted to pass the
CSD customer inputted requirement to the model, the interface being
adapted to pass CSD design from the model, and the interface being
adapted to hide the model;
wherein the CSD customer addresses the interface with the
CSD customer inputted requirement, the interface directs the CSD
customer inputted requirement to at least one of the models, the model
generates the CSD design that passes through the interface to the CSD
customer.
REFERENCES
The reference relied upon by the Examiner is:
Notten US 6,016,047 Jan. 18, 2000
REJECTIONS AT ISSUE
Claims 1 through 5 and 7 through 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Notten. The Examiner’s rejection is set
forth on pages 3 through 7 of the Answer. Throughout the opinion we make
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