Appeal No. 1998-2493
Application No. 08/658,120
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We affirm.
There is no dispute that APA teaches the subject matter of instant claim 1 but for
the “detecting means...” The examiner employs Hamachi for the teaching of such a
detecting means and, although Hamachi is directed to loading digital cassettes and not
disks, appellants do not argue this difference as being nonobvious or that the cassette
nature of Hamachi would make it inapplicable for combining with APA.
Further, Hamachi does, indeed, disclose detecting means for detecting and
providing a signal representative of an opening/closing state of a console panel, or
door. The detectors are seen as elements 36 and 37. The issue is whether Hamachi
discloses a means for “immediately loading said disk recording medium” into the disk
player “when it [is] detected that said console panel is not open in at least one of states
that said disk recording medium is being ejected and that said recording medium is
positioned in said recording medium inserting port.”
The examiner points to column 3, lines 17-23, column 9, lines 15-17, and column 9,
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