Appeal No. 1998-0158 Page 3
Application No. 08/427,587
Claim 10, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
10. A rotary head which is adapted to be mounted on a
rotary drum of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, and
which comprises:
a head base which is a single metal plate having at a
specified area thereon a thermally caused plastic deformation
area, said head base being bent in a direction parallel to a
rotation axis of said rotary head at a boundary of said
plastic deformation area; and
at least one head chip bonded on said head base at a
position defined by a bent amount of said head base.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Yohda 5,065,267 Nov. 12,
1991
(filed July 20,
1990)
Nanba et al. (Nanba) 1 62-093028 Apr. 28,
1987
(Japanese Patent Application)
Takeshita 61-1894631 Nov. 26,
1986.
(Japanese Patent Application)
1Copies of the translations of Nanba and of Takeshita
prepared by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are included
with and relied upon for our opinion. We will refer to the
translations by page number.
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