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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144433 | Hard disk drive A hard disk drive including an actuator arm to pivot across a disk and having a read/write head disposed at an end of the actuator arm to read data from the disk and to write data to the disk, and a crash stop to prevent the read/write head from being pivoted beyond... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7706107 | Method and apparatus for flexible printed circuit bracket including crash stop and/or air block in a hard disk drive The present invention includes a flexible printed circuit bracket including a crash stop rubber and/or an air block. The air block directs the air flow from the rotating disk surface(s) away from the head gimbal assemblies to minimize positional variance of the read... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7561381 | Base member and hard disk drive having the same A base member and a hard disk drive (HDD) having the base member. The base member includes a plate portion on which a head stack assembly (HSA) is pivotably mounted to record data in a disk or to read data recorded in the disk, and a crash stop portion which limits ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7468868 | Rotary disk storage device A rebounding phenomenon of an actuator assembly is to be prevented and device assembling work and maintenance work are to be carried out separately from stopper removing work. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a stopper 50 for restricting a t... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7428125 | Rotating disk storage device and pivot bearing Embodiments of the invention position accurately an actuator head suspension assembly (AHSA) relative to a magnetic disk without using any positioning jig, as achieved through a simple structure and involving no increase in manufacturing, and to prevent the AHSA fro... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7369367 | Disk drive voice coil motor yoke assembly having proximity latch magnet pair attracting and holding voice coil bias steel therebetween The invention includes a yoke assembly containing a top and a bottom proximity latch magnet. The invention includes a voice coil attached to a voice coil bias steel. The crash stop includes a magnetic proximity latch created by the voice coil bias steel attracted to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359159 | Actuator for hard disk drive having a reinforced structure An actuator of a hard disk drive moving a magnetic head to a predetermined position on a disk to record and read out data on and from the disk, including a suspension supporting a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted, an actuator arm having a pivot hole form... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7309967 | Motor drive circuitry with regenerative braking for disk drive During normal operation of a hard disk drive, control logic controls a plurality of switching elements to provide electrical power to a spindle motor and head motor of the disk drive from a voltage source coupled to first and second voltage supply nodes (e.g., Vcc a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304818 | Preconditioning an elastomeric stop member for use as a reference position An apparatus and associated method for preconditioning an elastomeric stop member to create a stabilized reference position for a moveable member by repetitively biasing the moveable member against the stop member and using the stabilized reference position to initi... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7277256 | Actuator and hard disk drive employing the same An actuator of a hard disk drive moves a magnetic head to record and reproduce data with respect to a disk to a predetermined position on the disk. The actuator includes a suspension supporting a slider where the magnetic head is mounted, and an arm included on a ba... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260886 | Fastening a magnetic disk to a hub structure Embodiments of the invention provide a clamping mechanism capable of clamping a magnetic disk by an accurate fastening force. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk fastening method includes the steps of: mounting a magnetic disk on a hub structure, setting a thin plate... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251108 | Dovetails for positive retention in an over-molded actuator Positive retention features are provided on an actuator of a magnetic disk drive thereby increasing the structural rigidity of the actuator in attachment of a voice coil to the actuator. The positive retention features are defined by a plurality of protrusions havin... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248441 | Disk drive actuator parking method using impact rebound crash stop with bias tab and pusher and crash stop faces The invention includes an impact rebound crash stop pivoting about a pivot between the top and bottom yoke of an actuator magnet assembly. The impact rebound crash stop includes a latch bias tab magnetically attracted to the voice coil magnet when it is near. The in... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248440 | Single lever type actuator latch system of disk drive An actuator latch system of a disk drive to lock an actuator having a swing arm installed at a base member, a voice coil motor coil joined to an end portion of the swing arm, and a magnet facing the voice coil motor coil, including a first and a second latch portion... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7170718 | Wiring body with flexure sheet connecting the head slider and the driving unit in a disk apparatus To provide a disk apparatus that can enhance reliability of a head wiring and a driving wiring, a disk apparatus includes a head slider, an arm, a driving unit, a wiring body provided for supplying a head mounted on the head slider with a head current used for signa... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164559 | Head actuator with elastic members oriented at obtuse angles relative to an arm and hard disk apparatus equipped with same A head actuator is made thinner without sacrificing its strength to thereby achieve the thinning of a hard disk apparatus. On the base end of each of two suspensions is provided a boss that protrudes in the direction of the side on which a magnetic head is provided,... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165261 | Locking member for an optical disk drive A locking member for use in an optical disk drive includes a rivet and a hollow element. The hole defined on the chassis of the optical disk drive is sized to receive the rivet, and the rivet extends through the hollow element. The rivet can be fixed on the chassis ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154711 | Information recording apparatus In a state wherein an actuator is located at a shunt position, when an apparatus is subjected to an external shock, the actuator tries to swing due to a rotational moment. An inertia arm generates a rotational moment simultaneously with the actuator. Both the rotati... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149053 | Disc drive turbulent wind management The disc drive housing encloses a spindle motor carrying a disc having a data surface. An actuator assembly includes an actuator arm carrying a head. The housing includes a first surface portion adjacent to the data surface of the disc. The housing also includes a p... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142396 | System and method for damage prevention by improving the shock resistance of a hard disk actuator arm A system and method are disclosed for improving the vibration/mechanical shock-resistance of a hard disk actuator arm. A guide block is located behind the actuator arm's angular range of motion, preventing over-flexure/vibration during operation, and/or the drive's ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133260 | Recording medium drive capable of avoiding damages of recording medium A protrusion is opposed to a head actuator positioned at the inoperative position in a recording medium drive such as a hard disk drive. When a larger impact is applied to the head actuator, the head actuator deforms by a predetermined amount, so that the protrusion... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7095684 | System for actively controlling the lense of an optical pickup when not in operation The present invention relates to an optical media system (40) for suppressing externally induced rattle of an optical media pickup. The system (40) comprises: an optical pickup (41) for reading from and/or writing to an optical storage medium ( | 08/22/2006 |
| 7075748 | Disk drive with a dual-stage actuator and failure detection and recovery system for the secondary actuator A dual-stage actuator disk drive has calibration tracks located in a nondata band, and uses a secondary-actuator failure detection and calibration test run by the servo control processor. The calibration tracks contain a pattern of pre-written magnetized test blocks... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7061723 | Bilinear-nonlinear limit stop for hard disk drive actuator A hard disk drive limit stop is designed with bilinear-nonlinear properties including a second element between a collar and the actuator. The second element has characteristics that are desired for a self servo write (SSW) start-up process. The limit stop has a crow... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050269 | Assembly for facilitating latch installation A voice coil motor pole assembly for supporting a latch is disclosed. The pole assembly includes a pin serving as an axle for the latch. The pole assembly also includes a protrusion that extends over a portion of the latch when the latch is mounted on the pin to the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042681 | Dovetails for positive retention in an over-molded actuator Positive retention features are provided on an actuator of a magnetic disk drive thereby increasing the structural rigidity of the actuator in attachment of a voice coil to the actuator. The positive retention features are defined by a plurality of protrusions havin... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038887 | Overmolded crash stop for a disc drive An apparatus restricting motion of an actuator assembly to preclude damage to a read/write head or a disc of a disc drive, the apparatus includes a pole piece with a crash stop mounting aperture and an overmolded crash stop communicating with the crash stop mounting... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036370 | Spring assembly with cantilevered spring rods A spring assembly and an apparatus incorporating the same. The spring assembly includes a base block configured to be rigidly fixed to a frame. A pair of nominally identical spring rods is cantilevered from the base block in a first direction. Each rod has a length,... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031107 | Magnetic head parking system of hard disk drive A magnetic head parking system of a hard disk drive to move a magnetic head mounted on a slider of an actuator from a data zone of a disk and to place the magnetic head in a parking zone thereof when the disk stops rotating. The magnetic head parking system includes... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6967822 | Disk drive actuator impact rebound crash stop with bias tab and pusher and crash stop faces The invention includes an impact rebound crash stop pivoting about a pivot between the top and bottom yoke of an actuator magnet assembly. The impact rebound crash stop includes a latch bias tab magnetically attracted to the voice coil magnet when it is near. The in... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6959487 | Head disc merge assembly for use at a merging station A head disc merge assembly for merging an actuator with a disc stack having a disc, the actuator assembly having a flexure supporting a data transducer head, the head disc merge assembly including a merge comb having a flexure support member to support the flexure a... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956723 | Recording medium drive capable of avoiding damages of recording medium A protrusion is opposed to a head actuator positioned at the inoperative position in a recording medium drive such as a hard disk drive. When a larger impact is applied to the head actuator, the head actuator deforms by a predetermined amount, so that the protrusion... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954338 | System and method of limiting a range of motion of an actuator in a hard disk drive A disk drive unit such as a hard disk drive is provided in which the efficiency of manufacturing processes, cost reductions, and space savings are achieved. The hard disk drive has a stopper that is arranged between a set of coil holding arms of an actuator. The sto... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950285 | Head arm assembly with an arm motion limiting member and disk drive device with the head arm assembly A Head Arm Assembly includes a head slider having at least one head element, an arm member for supporting the head slider at one end section, an actuator, mounted to the other end section of the arm member for rotationally moving the arm member in a direction substa... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947355 | Optical disk drive having function of removing static electricity of optical disk An optical disk drive includes a case, a tray which is slidably provided to the case and receives an optical disk, and a ground member which is electrically connected to the case and contacts one side of the optical disk as the tray slides in or out of the case. In ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6917497 | Disk drive actuator arm latch assembly An actuator arm latch assembly for a disk drive is disclosed which restrains movement of a disk drive actuator arm assembly during exposure of the disk drive to a shock event. In one embodiment, the actuator arm latch assembly is activated by the disk drive being ex... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6826019 | Actuator stop An actuator stop for a disc drive having a compliant suspension member joining a rigidly supported stop pin and a noncompliant contact member. The contact member is characterized by a relatively greater compressive yield strength than that of the suspension member s... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6781791 | Disk drive including disk plate including head and/or arm limiter portions for modifying airflow adjacent a disk A disk drive that includes a disk drive base, a spindle motor hub, a disk, and a rotary actuator including a distal end and is formed to pivot for translating the distal end adjacent the disk to a parked position. The disk drive includes a disk plate that includes a... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6731468 | Pawl latch for ramp loading hard disk drivers A latch for securing an actuator arm of a hard disk drive. The latch has a catch portion that can engage a latch portion of the actuator arm. The latch also has a pusher portion and a crash stop portion that engage the actuator arm during movement into a latched pos... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6714386 | Disc drive having a suspension limiter for improved shock performance A magnetic disc drive system is disclosed. The disc drive system includes at least one substantially flat magnetic disc, at least one read/write head, at least one head stack assembly, at least one head gimbal assembly, and at least one suspension limiter. The suspe... | 03/30/2004 |
