Appeal No. 2000-0374
Application No. 08/686,526
slider
3, where a spring 11 is inserted between the lever 4 on which
is mounted the pickup in such a manner as to spring bias the
lever
4 (and in effect the pickup 7 itself), and to then import such
teaching so as to spring bias the guide shafts 23A-23B on
which the entire slider 25 radially moves as in Figure 1 of
Kato.
We find ourselves in agreement with appellant’s arguments
presented at page 8 of the brief:
Thus, not only are the adjustment screw 10 and
spring 11 utilized for adjusting the inclination of the
pickup 7 in a tangential direction, as opposed to
adjustment of the distance between a deck and a guide
shaft thereby to adjust the tilt of the pickup and
correct inclination errors in a radial direction of a
disk, but the adjustment screw 10 is threadedly engaged
with a radially movable slider 3 and not with a
stationary chassis or deck, as asserted in the rejection.
Appellant specifically traverses the substitution of
screw 10 and spring 11, which directly adjust the
inclination of the pickup 7 in the tangential direction,
for the screws shown at the ends of the shafts 23A and
23B in Figure 1 of Kato on the basis that there is no
motivation whatsoever for making such a modification
absent Appellant’s own teaching as a guide. Such
impermissible hindsight reconstruction is clearly
improper.
As expressed by appellant at page 9 of the brief,
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