You do realise that patent forms often just have a generic illustration, for illustration purposes? They are patenting the rumble tech itself, not its use in a particular system. Otherwise Sony could just make the exact same thing and put it in a PSP iteration. The picture is a just a generic DS-like system for the sake of showing what the patented tech would be used for.
Ergo, not a 3DS. Reading way too much into it.







