Appeal No. 1998-2501 Application No. 08/534,149 Applying Kukreja to claim 15, taking Figure 1 of Kukreja for example, it is seen that the reference does disclose an apparatus for opening a door 26 in a tape cartridge 20 with the door having a rear edge. The cartridge is inserted to be mounted in a tape drive 10. The tape drive clearly has a chassis and a magnetic head. The Kukreja apparatus also has a rotating arm (lever 402 of door opening mechanism 360, best shown in Figure 11b), and the arm is rotatably mounted to the chassis through pivot pin 404 such that the rotating arm is free to move in an arc. The rotating arm also has a door engaging end (foot portion 409 and toe portion 410) and this door engaging end is positioned so that when the cartridge is inserted into the tape drive, the rear edge of the door is forced against the door engaging end of the rotating arm, forcing the door open. We also note that Kukreja does show the door 26 covering an opening in an edge wall of the tape cartridge and a reasonable interpretation would be that when the tape cartridge is inserted into the tape drive, the edge wall is, indeed, “moving toward the magnetic head,” as claimed. -3-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007