Appeal No. 2004-0478
Application No. 09/768,976
a storage disk;
an actuator arm that moves relative to the storage disk;
a load beam secured to the actuator arm;
a slider including a data transducer that exchanges
information with the storage disk during data transfer
operations; and
a head suspension that secures the slider to the load beam
and positions the slider near the storage disk, the head
suspension maintaining the slider pitch at a pitch static
attitude of less than zero degrees during the data transfer
operations, wherein stiction between the slider and the storage
disk is substantially less than if the pitch static attitude was
greater than zero degrees during the data transfer operations.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Jacques 5,612,839 Mar. 18, 1997
Arya et al. (Arya) 5,739,982 Apr. 14, 1998
Battu et al. (Battu) 5,841,610 Nov. 24, 1998
Rejections At Issue1
Claims 1-3, 5, 8-10, and 12-18, and 20-40 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Arya.
Claims 4 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being obvious over Arya.
Claims 6 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being obvious over the combination of Arya and Jacques.
1 Appellants have listed as an issue on appeal the Examiner's
objection to claims 22 and 34. This is a matter of form and is
not appropriate for appeal. See MPEP § 706.01.
3
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