`Amendment Dated:
`Reply to Office Action of:
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`13/687,128
`July 9, 2014
`‘ March 27, 2014
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`RemarkslArguments:
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`MAT-10428USl
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`- The present invention relates to a welding method and welding system. An
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`exemplary embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in Applicants’ Fig. 1.
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`This embodiment is being described for illustrative purposes only and should not be
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`construed as limitations on the scope of Applicants’ claims.
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`Fig. 1 illustrates first manipulator 11a holding first welding torch 16a for a first
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`single electrode 18a. The first control device 10a controls first manipulator 11a. First
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`welding power supply 12a supplies electric power between first single electrode 18a
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`and welding object W. Second manipulator 11b holds second welding torch 16b for
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`second single electrode 18b. Second control device 10b controls second manipulator
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`11b. Second welding power supply unit 12b supplies electric power between second
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`welding wire 18b and welding object W.
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`Claims 1 and 3-11 have been rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious
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`over Shigeyoshi
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`(JP 2008-093670, US 7,999,208)
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`in
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`view of Peters
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`(US
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`2008/0011728) and Hillen (US 2004/0162630).
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`It is respectfully submitted, however,
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`that Applicants’ claims are patentable over the art of record for the reasons set forth
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`below.
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`Applicants’ invention, as recited by claim 1, includes a feature which is neither
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`disclosed nor suggested by the art of record, namely:
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`a
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`first
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`control
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`device which
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`controls
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`the
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`first
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`manipulator
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`operating
`receives
`device
`control
`second
`the
`instructions from the first control device and the second
`control device controls the second manipulator based
`upon the operating instructions.
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`This feature is described in the originally filed application at page 15, lines 2-7
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`where it is stated:
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`such as
`all parameters,
`since
`As described above,
`programs and welding conditions, are in the memory of
`control device 10a of welding robot system “a” which is a
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