Appeal No. 96-3614
Application 08/259,154
Although Hirai was discussed in the final Office action
(paper No. 23, at 5 and 7), it was not identified in any of
the statements of the rejections in the final Office action
(at 2, 4, and 8). Nevertheless, as appellants discussed Hirai
in their brief (at 10) and did not file a reply brief
objecting to the examiner's reliance on Hirai in the Answer,
we will consider that reference in reviewing the rejections.
The rejection of independent claims 1 and 3
Figures 1 and 2 of Schwarz show a thin film transducer 8
mounted on the end surface of a flyer body (i.e., slider) 9,
which is insulated from the transducer by an insulating layer
15 of unspecified thickness (col. 3, lines 43-46). The
transducer includes a magnetic layer 16 forming a bottom pole,
a non-magnetic layer 17 forming a flux gap 10 at the pole tip
27, coil-insulating layers 18 and 19 of unspecified material
surrounding a winding 12, and a magnetic layer 14 forming an
upper pole (col. 3, line 65 to col. 4, line 21). Furthermore,
the first magnetic layer 14 makes direct contact with flyer
body (i.e., substrate) 9 through a hole 22 in substrate-
insulating layer 15, thereby creating an ohmic contact between
the substrate and the lower magnetic pole (col. 4, lines 46-
- 8 -
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