Appeal No. 2000-0617
Application 08/706,025
21. Nakagawa describes that a single ball bearing is
preferable over the three ball bearing arrangement in order to
reduce the number of components for the bearing. (Nakagawa
section 0005 at 3).
The Inoue reference
22. Inoue describes a bearing device with a rotor for a
magnetic head.
23. Inoue describes a rotor 10 and a stator with stator
coil 35 and magnet 34. (Fig. 2).
The Moriwaki reference
24. Moriwaki describes an elastic bearing device with a
rotary shaft 21 supported by a ball (23, 25) at either end of
the shaft. (Fig. 1).
25. The Moriwaki reference describes a bearing assembly
with a main body 11 and an arm 26. (Figs. 1 and 2).
26. The arm 26 is attached to the rotary shaft 21, such
as to pivot back and forth as illustrated by the arrow in Fig.
2.
B. Discussion
The rejections of the claims on appeal cannot be
sustained. A reversal of the rejection on appeal should not
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