Appeal 2006-3069
Application 10/661,273
such that an air bearing between a We find the space between heads 4
slider supported by the suspension and hard drive disk 5 is the air
and the disk is not substantially bearing (Figs. 1 and 3). We find the
disrupted. second supporting member 3
corresponds to the recited “slider
supported by the suspension”
(Figs. 1 and 3).
Independent claim 9 Onda
9. A hard disk drive See Onda’s HDD 10, Fig. 1.
having a motion limiting element See Onda’s motion-limiting “elastic
mechanically constraining movement members 30, 31, 32, and 34,” col. 4,
of ll. 41-43, Figs. 2-5.
at least one suspension of the disk See Onda’s “suspensions 21a-21d,
drive away from a disk of the disk col. 5, ll. 1-14, Figs. 2-5.
drive in the event of a mechanical
shock to the disk drive
while operating at least in a protected We find the region of hard disk
region of the disk platter 13 that is protected from
physical shocks to the drive by
motion-limiting elastic members 30,
31, 32, and 34 is a protected region,
as shown in Figs. 2-5.
such that an air bearing between a We find the space between Onda’s
slider supported by the suspension “flying head sliders 22a-22d” (col. 4,
and the disk is not substantially l. 19, Figs. 2-5) and hard drive disk
disrupted. platter 13 is the air bearing
(Figs. 2-5).
Moreover, “when the PTO shows sound basis for believing that the
products of the applicant and the prior art are the same, the applicant has the
burden of showing that they are not.” In re Spada, 911 F.2d 705, 708, 15
USPQ2d 1655, 1658 (Fed. 1990) (citation omitted). Where the Patent Office
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