Appeal No. 97-1198
Application No. 08/245,954
Claims 1 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Shimada in view of the admitted prior
art.
Claims 2 through 5 and 7 through 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Shimada in view of
the admitted prior art and Otsubo.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 10.
Shimada discloses a disk player (Figure 3) for
reproducing a disk 1 on which image information and audio
information are recorded. The disk player includes a disk
ejector that ejects the disk from the disk player (column 4,
lines 34 through 40), a spindle motor 2 and motor drive
circuit 10 that rotates the disk, a disk drive controller 12
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