Appeal 2006-3087
Application 09/821,553
FINDINGS OF FACT
Notten teaches a battery monitoring method which measures
parameters from the battery. The method selects and uses a model to
simulate battery operation and uses the simulation to determine a
characteristic of the battery. See column 1, lines 1 through 31. Notten also
teaches that the monitoring device may be used in the design of batteries.1
See column 1, lines 33 through 35 and column 25, lines 17 through 20. In
using the monitoring device to design a battery, Notten teaches that a user
inputs criteria concerning operating conditions of the device in which the
battery will be used. See column 25, lines 20 through 31. One example of
the criteria which the design must meet is whether “the supplied current is
sufficient for a given duration of standby power consumption and full power
consumption”, i.e., a rate of discharge capability. See column 25, lines 44
through 46. Further, Notten teaches that the method uses several models to
simulate battery operation. See column 10, lines 27 through 37 (teaching that
different models are used for different battery materials) and column 25, line
53 through column 26, line 4 (teaching that different material types are
considered in the iterative calculations to design the battery). The
simulations are run iteratively until the simulation results in a battery design
1 Appellants’ arguments in the Brief do not appear to address this
embodiment of Notten. In an earlier filed Reply Brief, dated June 20, 2005,
submitted prior to remand of the appeal, Appellants acknowledge this
teaching, but state on page 8, “Notten merely refers to producing a battery
based upon output characteristics, and nothing substantive is really discussed
with regard to design output.”
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