Appeal No. 1998-2502
Application No. 08/525,007
finds only a reference to a pair of detectors for detecting
storage of a disk cassette, and a third detector on slider 25
to detect whether or not the insertion direction of the disk
cassette is correct, and whether or not the disk cassette has
been inserted properly. While the examiner concludes from
these teachings that Numasaki detects whether or not the data
storing device is transferred in a prior attempt, and if it is
not transferred, the carriage is moved to a new position, it
is not clear how the examiner reaches this conclusion.
Numasaki teaches nothing about a “prior attempt” to
transfer the data storing device and displacing the carriage
to a new position to transfer the storing device again if it
is not transferred in the “prior attempt.” Rather, in
Numasaki, when the carrier frame fails to come accurately to a
horizontal position because of some variation in a stopping
position of the shaft of the pulse motor, or because of
vibration or other external forces, because of the shape and
construction of catching blade 101 and holding roller 105, the
carrier frame is forcibly positioned to the correct horizontal
position even if the carrier frame has been slightly
dislocated (see column 6, lines 35-62 of Numasaki). Thus, it
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