Appeal No. 1999-2281
Application No. 08/621,521
traveling from adjacent the mounting end of the beam
substantially along a lengthwise direction of the beam. Claim
1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A device for reading or writing information on a
spinning, rigid magnetic storage disk, comprising:
an elongate flexure beam extending between a
mounting end and a free end and including a plurality of
longitudinal conductors, and
an electromagnetic transducer composed of a
plurality of adjoining layers, connected to said beam adjacent
to said free end and coupled to said conductors, said
transducer concurrently communicating with and contacting a
portion of the disk traveling from adjacent said mounting end
substantially along a lengthwise direction of said beam.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Matsuura et al. (Matsuura) 5,065,271 Nov. 12,
1991
(filed Feb. 26, 1990)
Gill et al. (Gill) 5,561,570 Oct. 01,
1996
(effectively filed Feb. 26,
1993)
Claims 1, 4, 11, 12, 20, 22, and 28 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being clearly anticipated by Gill.
Claims 5, 6, 8, 18, 19, and 26 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Gill.
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