Appeal No. 1997-3157
Application No. 08/286,224
Sugahara et al.(Sugahara)5,285,338 Feb. 8,
1994
(effective filing date Oct. 3, 1990)
Sakai2 4-125871 Apr. 27, 1992
(Japanese Patent Application)
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Sakai in view of Asano.
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Hatch.
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Sugahara.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 22, 25 and
27) and the answers (paper numbers 23 and 26) for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejections of claims 1
through 6.
All of the claims on appeal require that a distance D
from a fulcrum for rotating/driving a head arm to the center
of a magnetic disc, that a distance L from the fulcrum of the
2 A copy of the translation of this reference is attached.
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