Appeal No. 2002-1744 Page 5
Application No. 09/179,793
Here, Inoue discloses "a library apparatus having a mail slot mode in which the
tray is opened selectively to a mail slot access position for manual insertion of a single
cartridge medium into the mail slot or manual removal thereof from the mail slot. . . ."
Col. 1, ll. 12-15. "[T]he medium is conveyed between the mail slot and a respective
storage slot, controlled by corresponding move commands from the host computer. . . ."
Id. at ll. 16-19. The passage of the reference cited by the examiner explains, "[w]hen
the operation of the ejection switch 24 is not detected even after a predetermined time
has elapsed, namely, when the operator leaves the tray 20 in an open state, an error is
reported to the host computer 16 and, after that, a recovering process to close the
tray 20 and to return to an initial state is executed." Col. 14, ll. 52-57. "The recovering
process can be executed by closing the tray 20 by the operation of the ejection
switch 24, by again generating the moving command in which the movement source is
set to the slot #35 from the host computer 16, or by issuing the tray closing command."
Id. at ll. 57-62.
Although Inoue's recovering process closes its tray, we are unpersuaded that it
does so without actuating a regulator used to open the tray manually. To the contrary,
the reference's tray is opened and closed by the same regulator, viz., a microprocessor
unit ("MPU"). Specifically, Inoue explains that its "accessor controller 38 has an
MPU 52 functioning as a logic controller and executes a mode setting control, a
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