Appeal No. 96-3704
Application 08/216,474
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 6 and 8 through 14. Claim 7 has been
cancelled. Claims 15 through 19 have been withdrawn from
consideration.
The invention relates to a head suspension assembly
for positioning a floating read-write head assembly for use in
a computer disk drive memory. In particular, the head suspen-
sion assembly has a monocoque region 30 shown in Figure 2.
The monocoque region is shown in cross section in Figure 4.
The monocoque region is a hollow shell having a closed plane
figure cross-sectional profile. This allows an integrated
circuit to be placed within the hollow shell of the monocoque
region as shown in Figure 2.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A head suspension assembly for positioning a
floating head assembly having electrical terminals over se-
lected tracks on the surface of a rotating data storage de-
vice, said head suspension assembly comprising;
2
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