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Apparatus for Simulating a High Five
A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5942279 | Method of texturing a landing zone A method and apparatus for texturing a landing zone on a substrate of a magnetic disk to reduce stiction between a magnetic transducer head and the disk is provided. The method includes projecting discrete pressurized fluid droplets to impact a substrate ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5920887 | Disk drive with cache repeatedly accessed for a read command to provide prefetched data A method provides for waiting for a cache hit in the operation of a disk drive. The drive has an intelligent interface for communicating with a host, a magnetic disk, and a cache. The cache is divisible into a number of segments, and the cache employs a c... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5914837 | Disk drive having elastomeric interface in pivot bearing assembly A disk drive has a base, a cover, a spindle motor mounted to the base, and a disk coupled to the spindle motor. A rotary actuator comprising a head stack assembly is coupled to the base by a pivot bearing assembly. The pivot bearing assembly provides a st... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5894382 | Head stack assembly for a disk drive having a plastic inner sleeve A magnetic disk drive with a head stack assembly includes a body portion, a coil portion cantilevered from one side of the body portion, and an actuator arm cantilevered to the opposite side of the body portion, wherein the body portion includes a plastic... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5890212 | Disk drive with cache employing host pointer jumps during skip-ahead or semi-repeating accesses A method of managing commands is provided for a disk drive having an intelligent interface for communicating with a host. The drive also has a magnetic disk, host side programs, disk side programs, and a cache wherein the cache is divisible into a number ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5877571 | Head disk assembly having a washer between a disk clamp and disk and method of making A head disk assembly includes a base, a cover attached to the base and a spindle motor mounted to the base. The spindle motor includes a shaft, an inner cylindrical portion surrounding the shaft, and an outer cylindrical portion surrounding the inner cyli... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5862019 | Disk drive head actuator fabrication system employing standardized self-aligning modular components A disk drive actuator assembly adapted for assembly in one of several configurations from a single line of modular components without a manually-supervised aligning step. The actuator improves manufacturability and inertia by introducing a common set of s... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5796554 | Load beam assembly with separate spring and hinge functions The invention resides in a load beam assembly forming part of a head stack assembly in a magnetic disk drive, the load beam assembly biasing a transducer head against a rotating magnetic disk. The load beam assembly normally has spring and hinge functions... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5790348 | Head stack assembly having a coil portion for damping vibrations which includes elongated openings in the plastic portion A disk drive includes an enclosure having a base, a spindle motor fixed to the base, a disk mounted on the spindle motor, a pivot bearing cartridge, and a head stack assembly. The pivot bearing cartridge includes a shaft fixed to the enclosure, and the he... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5790346 | Disk clamp for a disk drive for evenly distributing clamping force on recording medium A disk clamp for holding a recording disk in a disk drive. The clamp is ring-shaped and includes stiffened inner and outer regions with a softened middle region located in between. The inner region is stiffened by bending the inner edge. The outer region ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5751517 | Air bearing slider having debris removing channels An air bearing slider having debris removing channels for a hard disk drive. An air bearing slider contains a center pad having multiple longitudinal debris channels cut therein approximately 1-3 microns wide and approximately 1-3 microns deep and spannin... | 05/12/1998 |
