Appeal No. 1998-1794
Application 08/738,467
would be corrected by changing "said bearing means" to "said
bearings." The rejection of claim 20, and claims 21-30 which
depend on claim 20, is sustained.
35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
Hajec discloses a spindle motor where the motor lies
inside the hub and clearly does not show Appellant's disclosed
spindle motor assembly configuration. Nevertheless, despite
the differences in structure, it is always possible that the
claim language is so broad that it reads on Hajec in an
unintended manner. This is the case here. For example,
independent claim 9 does not particularly define the spindle
hub to be generally cylindrical with the enlarged thickness
flange portion and the reduced thickness rotor carrying
portion being thicknesses of the cylinder wall and lying along
the length and, so, does not distinguish over the cup-shaped
hub in Hajec.
Claims 9, 10, and 12
The language of claim 9 does not exclude the enlarged
thickness flange portion of the spindle hub from radially
overlying the reduced thickness rotor carrying portion as in
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