Appeal No. 2004-1637
Application No. 09/130,807
DISCUSSION
I. The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claims 2, 3, 8, 10, 11,
15, 16, 19 and 20 as being unpatentable over Brown in view of
Takubo
Brown, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
suspension system for supporting and conveying various types of
equipment such as photographic and video equipment, military
weapons, lasers, surveillance sensors, lighting equipment,
industrial retrieval or assembly equipment, games and the like
(see column 9, line 30, through column 10, line 18; and column
11, lines 14 through 35). Figure 1 illustrates a preferred
embodiment of the system for supporting and conveying a camera
assembly. This system 10 includes an equipment support member 24
held in suspension by four cables 12, 14, 16 and 18, with each
cable associated with a pulley 20, a support structure 22 and an
individual motor assembly 26. The equipment support member 24 is
a two-axis gimbal mounted on a camera assembly 25 comprising a
vertical spar 56, a camera 54 on the lower end of the spar,
various electronic components on the upper end of the spar, and
lower and upper spherical balls 60 and 62 respectively enclosing
the camera and the electronic components. The balls serve to
equalize wind loading on the opposite ends of the camera assembly
(see column 18, lines 36 through 45).
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