Appeal No. 1997-1162
Application 08/200,455
outer bush which also allows a smaller housing design cause a
large space savings. . . . The elimination on inner and outer
bushes in addition causes a higher positioning exactness since
individual seating locations with their tolerance are
eliminated. The one-piece outer bush also makes certain
housing segments no long [sic] required." Voll further
discloses (translation, page 6): "Further advantages of the
spindle in accordance with the invention consist of, because
of the low number of parts, a costwise and economically
favorable design being present that also allows a more simple
assembly during manufacture or in the case of repair." We
recognize that Appellant did not have a copy of the
translation in preparing the Brief, so we rely just on the
drawings and the English language abstract.
Fruge discloses a disk drive spindle for a disk drive
unit having a fixed spindle shaft 28 and a pair of ball
bearing sets mounted in a cartridge bearing assembly. Fruge
discloses in the background (col. 1, lines 21-26): "Some
spindles use cartridge bearing assemblies, that is, bearing
assemblies in which the outer races of the individual bearings
are formed (such as by machining) in a single sleeve. In
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