Appeal No. 95-4550
Application 08/025,902
whereas claim 6 is directed to the flexure per se.
A copy of the appealed claims, as these claims appear in the
appendix to appellant’s brief, is appended to this decision.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness in support of his rejections under
35 U.S.C. § 103:
Yamada 4,896,233 Jan. 23, 1990
Yumura et al. (Yumura) 5,079,660 Jan. 07, 1992
(Filed Jun. 29, 1989)
Two grounds of rejection of the appealed claims are
separately stated in the answer. First, the examiner states that
claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Yumura in view of Yamada. Second, the examiner
states that claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Yamada in view of Yumura. Both of
these references disclose structures for supporting a read/write
transducer head slider in a disc type data storage system.
With regard to the first rejection mentioned above, the
examiner concludes that the teachings of Yamada would have made
it obvious to provide the flexure in the head-supporting
apparatus of Yumura with a double bend bight portion of the type
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