Appeal No. 2000-1240
Application 09/094,067
therefore provide any housing for any motor components associated
with the claimed spindle motor rotor and the like since the motor
5 is shown to be separate from the assembly comprising the
various parts of the table section 2. Mukawa's motor 5 is
separately attached to the chassis 6 and the shaft 1 of the motor
protruding through this chassis 6 to engage the cylindrical
supporting section 7 of the table section 2 such as in
representative Figure 2 of Mukawa. Although this feature is
argued by appellant at page 14 of the brief, the examiner's
responsive arguments portion of the answer at pages 7 and 8 does
not address this argued feature at all. None of the various
figures in Mukawa mount the motor 5 in any manner differently
than that shown in Figure 2 of this reference. Therefore, the
decision of the examiner rejecting independent claim 14 and its
respective dependent claims 15-19 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 is
reversed.
NEW REJECTION UNDER 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Claims 14, 15 and 17-19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being obvious over Obara alone. For the same reasons as set
forth in detail earlier in this opinion as to our affirmance of
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