Appeal No. 96-3704
Application 08/216,474
1087, 37 USPQ2d at 1239, citing W. L. Gore, 721 F.2d at 1551,
1553, 220 USPQ at 311, 312-313.
Turning to Appellant's claims, we note that the
claims require a monocoque load beam in which an integrated
circuit chip is mounted within the enclosed shell portion of
the monocoque region of the load beam. In particular,
Appellant's claim 1 recites the following:
a monocoque region located in between
the gimbal region and the spring region,
where the monocoque region is a hollow
shell having a closed plane figure cross
sectional profile and covering an inner
chamber, the monocoque region including a
ceiling region and a floor region separated
and spaced from each other;
an integrated circuit substantially
encased inside the inner chamber, between
the ceiling region and the floor region.
We note that Appellant's only other independent claim, claim
13, requires similar limitations requiring an integrated
circuit encased inside the inner chamber of the monocoque
region.
Upon our close review of Hashimoto, we note that
Hashimoto teaches in Figures 4a, b, c and d a structure having
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