Appeal No. 1999-0043
Application 08/599,875
teaches the general concept of switching to a head which is
closer to the target position, albeit in connection with fixed
heads that are positioned at the same radial distance from the
center of the disk.
Gilovich, which is disclosed as prior art by Appellant
(specification, p. 2), discloses in figure 5 a disk drive
recording apparatus having a bifurcated actuator arm
supporting a pair of spaced transducing heads. Both heads
track over a single continuous path P between the outer track
T1 and the inner track T2, and each head covers one-half the
path thereby reducing the data access time because the maximum
rotational movement of the actuator arms is reduced by
one-half (col. 9, lines 29-47).
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 4, and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Daniels and Gilovich. The
Examiner concludes that it would have been obvious "to modify
the teachings of Daniels et al[.] to include the teachings of
Gilovich, motivation being to reduce the size of the package
as set forth in col. 3, lines 50-54 of Gilovich" (Examiner's
Answer, p. 4), that is, "the fixed heads of Daniels et al[.]
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