Appeal No. 1996-2199
Application 08/191,060
usual ON condition. The ON condition for a disk drive motor
is whenever a disk access has to be accomplished. A disk
access operation in a disk drive system is nothing more that a
disk read signal. Therefore, we interpret claim 28 as
reciting nothing more than that the frequency of the disk
drive system is controlled only when the system is in the ON
condition. It would have been obvious to the artisan to
control the Ohi motor in a disk drive system only when a disk
read or disk access command is present. We now
consider the rejection with respect to claims 10, 11, 13 and
15-20 which nominally stand or fall together [brief, page 4].
With respect to representative, independent claim 10, the
examiner has essentially applied the teachings of Ohi in the
same manner discussed above with respect to claim 1.
Appellant makes arguments similar to those considered above
with respect to claim 1. Appellant also argues that Ohi does
not teach producing a warm signal and a hot signal and
inactivating the warm signal in the manner recited in claim 10
[brief, pages 12-13].
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