Appeal No. 1998-2502
Application No. 08/525,007
data storing devices and a drive unit for receiving a selected
data storing device. Numasaki also discloses conveying means
including a carriage for conveying a data storing device
between the magazine and the drive unit, as well as
transferring means for transferring the data storing device
between the carriage and the magazine and between the carriage
and the drive unit. Numasaki also teaches several detecting
means and a control means responsive to detecting means for
controlling the carriage and device transferring means so that
the data storing device is transferred when the carriage is
conveyed to a reference position in front of one of the
magazine and the drive unit.
However, we do not find a teaching in Numasaki of the
claimed feature of:
when said detecting means detects that the data storing
device is not transferred in a prior attempt, the
carriage is displaced from said reference position to a
new
position along said predetermined conveying path and
the data storing device is transferred again.
As evidence of this feature, the examiner points to
column 3, lines 38-41 and column 4, lines 34-38 of Numasaki.
However, reference to these cited portions of the reference
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