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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149545 | Low profile load beam with etched cavity for PZT microactuator A dual-stage actuator disk drive suspension load beam has a recessed cavity formed in it into which the microactuator motor is partially or completely placed. The cavity may be formed by partially etching the load beam during the same etching process that creates th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7821742 | High stroke sensitivity suspension with laminate load beam for additive laminated and other interconnect support A high stroke sensitivity microactuated disk drive suspension includes a microactuator, a laminate of first and second outer layers and a plastic inner layer that define a base portion, a spring portion and a beam portion. The base portion has proximate and distal r... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808746 | Method and apparatus for active control of spacing between a head and a storage medium A slider having a slider body is provided. An electrical connection is coupled to the slider body. A first actuator is coupled to the electrical connection and adapted to displace a first portion of the slider body. Additionally, a second heater is coupled to the el... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7701675 | Micro-actuator mounting structure capable of maintaining a substantially constant gap between a top support of a micro-actuator and a suspension during use A micro-actuator frame for a head gimbal assembly includes a bottom support adapted to be connected to a suspension of the head gimbal assembly, a top support adapted to support a slider of the head gimbal assembly, a pair of side arms that interconnect the bottom s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7660079 | Method and system of using a step plate mechanically formed in a disk drive suspension flexure to mount a micro-actuator to the flexure A head gimbal assembly includes a suspension including a suspension flexure. The suspension flexure includes a step plate mechanically formed in the suspension flexure. A micro-actuator is mounted to the step plate of the suspension flexure. The step plate is constr... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7554772 | Head gimbal assembly having an independent spacer therein and disk drive unit with the same A HGA of the invention includes a micro-actuator, a slider and a suspension to support the micro-actuator and the slider. The suspension comprises a flexure for mounting the micro-actuator thereon, a suspension tongue connected to the flexure and an independent spac... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7532440 | Dual stage, head stack assembly for a disk drive A dual stage, head stack assembly (15) for a disk drive (10) having a storage disk (32) is provided herein. The head stack assembly (15) includes an actuator arm (18), a coarse positioner (22), a transducer assembly (20 | 05/12/2009 |
| 7372671 | Disk apparatus A head beam is retained at a front portion of the pivoting arm so as to be rotatable, and is continuously urged by an urging member in the counterclockwise direction. The pivoting arm has a directing rod rotating around a supporting shaft. A slidable projection of t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369358 | Grounded writer core A transducing head includes a substrate, a writer having a writer core, and an electrical connector for grounding the writer, wherein the electrical connector electrically connects the writer core to the substrate. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369369 | Bidirectional micropositioning recording head for a magnetic storage device A recording head for use in magnetic storage devices is disclosed. The recording head includes a transducer that is bi-directionally movable with respect to a magnetic medium surface of the magnetic storage medium, thereby enabling improved positioning of the transd... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359158 | Suspension of disc drive A suspension for disc drive has a base portion including a base plate, a load beam, a pair of hinge members, a wired flexure, etc. The wired flexure has a metal base and a wiring portion on the metal base. The hinge members are fixed overlapping the rear end portion... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355305 | Small-size direct-acting actuator A direct-acting actuator is provided comprising a stator section (16), an attachment section (6) secured to the stator section, micro-beams (8, 10) extending from the attachment section, a rotor section (12) supported for swing motion by ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340823 | Methods for forming head suspension assemblies Embodiments include a method for forming a head suspension assembly. A spacer layer is formed in or on a silicon wafer. A transfer film including an opening defining the shape of a slider support membrane is provided, and the opening is filled with a resin material.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7330333 | Hard disk drive housing having isolated post to improve mechanical shock resistance A hard disk drive with a post that extends from a base of a base plate. The base has a slot adjacent to the post. The slot attenuates a shock wave that propagates through the base plate of the drive. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315436 | Suspension assembly with a shape memory actuator coupled to a gimbal A suspension assembly for use with a disk drive having a disk and a slider. The suspension assembly includes a gimbal for receiving the slider. The suspension assembly further includes a shape memory actuator coupled to the gimbal. The shape memory actuator is forme... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312956 | Micro-actuator, head gimbal assembly, and disk drive unit with the same A head gimbal assembly includes a slider, a rotatable micro-actuator and a suspension to load the slider and the rotatable micro-actuator. The rotatable micro-actuator horizontally rotates the slider with a central portion of the slider as an axis, which includes a ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298593 | Micro-actuator including a leading beam pivot part, head gimbal assembly and disk drive unit with the same A HGA includes a slider, a micro-actuator horizontally rotating the slider with a central portion of the slider as a rotation center, and a suspension to load the slider and the micro-actuator; wherein the micro-actuator comprises a support frame having a base, a mo... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7283332 | Suspension with improved gimbal A suspension includes a load beam section and a gimbal section, which is formed with the load beam section as a single, continuous piece of material, having a top surface and a bottom surface. The gimbal section has a first end formed with to the load beam section a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277257 | Transducer-level microactuator for a magnetic recording system A transducer-level microactuator selectively positions a transducer portion of a slider radially with respect to circumferential data tracks of a rotatable disc. The slider includes a slider body having a leading edge and a trailing edge, a transducer body and a fle... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277258 | Dual-stage actuator disk drive with optimal location of the movable portion of the secondary actuator A dual-stage actuator disk drive has both a rotary primary actuator and a rotary secondary actuator. When the primary actuator initiates a seek there are two torque components acting on the center of mass of the secondary actuator's moving portion. The center of rot... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7256968 | Microactuated dimple for head suspensions A head suspension for supporting a head slider over a disk in a dynamic storage device and providing precise movement of the head slider relative to tracks on the disk. The head suspension includes a load beam, a flexure having a slider mounting region, and a dimple... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247973 | Moving mechanism using a piezoelectric actuator and a magnetic disk apparatus having such a moving mechanism A moving mechanism using a piezoelectric actuator is attached by an adhesive with adhesive parts of a constant area between a piezoelectric element and a slider and between the piezoelectric element and a suspension. A movable part, serving as the slider, is moved b... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248442 | Integrated recording head micropositioner using off-axis flexure bending A recording head for use in magnetic storage devices is disclosed. The recording head includes a transducer that is bi-directionally movable with respect to a magnetic medium surface of the magnetic storage medium, thereby enabling improved positioning of the transd... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248444 | Electromagnetic heads, flexures, gimbals and actuators formed on and from a wafer substrate Devices for reading or writing electromagnetic information include a wafer substrate piece disposed between an electromagnetic transducer and an electrostrictive or piezoelectric actuator. The substrate piece is shaped as a rigid body adjoining the transducer and as... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248443 | Method and apparatus for a MEMS micro-actuator assembly in a hard disk drive A micro-actuator assembly, which includes a first micro-actuator. The first micro-actuator includes: Two pivot spring pairs coupling to first stator and second stator. Two flexure spring pairs and pitch spring pair coupling to central movable section, which includes... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240417 | Collocated metal frame PZT micro-actuator with a lower stiffness suspension design and method of manufacture of same A framing assembly with lower stiffness design and a method of manufacturing that framing assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment, a framing assembly pattern is cut from a piece of a thin planar material, such as metal. The pattern is then bent to form a framing a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239487 | Micro-electro-mechanical actuator for positioning a device such as a read/write head in a disk drive A micro-electro-mechanical device formed by a body of semiconductor material having a thickness and defining a mobile part and a fixed part. The mobile part is formed by a mobile platform, supporting arms extending from the mobile platform to the fixed part, and by ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230799 | Electro-thermal micromechanical actuator for finitely positioning a storage device slider and methods of use and manufacture A system and method for controlling the position of a digital data storage device slider through the use of an electro-thermal micromechanical actuator is disclosed. A movable member is etched into a face of a slider opposite the air-bearing surface of the slider. T... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230800 | Microactuator for a hard disk drive with an integrated gimbal function A micro-fabricated chip having a stationary structure and a movable structure with a gimbal structure allows pitch and roll motion of the movable structure with respect to the stationary structure. One embodiment of the gimbal structure includes a dimple surface mak... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225513 | Method for preventing operational and manufacturing imperfections in piezoelectric micro-actuators A method of manufacturing an actuator includes applying at least one layer of electrically-conductive material and at least one layer of electrically-insulative material to an actuator block, and separating the actuator block into a plurality of actuators, each actu... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221542 | System and method for hard drive damage prevention by providing reinforcing material to corners of a micro-actuator to improving the shock resistance thereof A system and method are disclosed for hard drive damage prevention by improving the shock resistance of a hard disk micro-actuator. The interior angles of the micro-actuator are rounded and structurally supported by a reinforcing material. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218471 | Self-servo writing using recording head micropositioner Servo tracks are written onto different disk surfaces using multiple recording heads within a disk drive without requiring a servo writing machine or clean room conditions. Microactuators in the reference heads in the disk drive are capable of independent motion wit... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218481 | Apparatus for insulating and electrically connecting piezoelectric motor in dual stage actuator suspension Apparatus and method for selectively applying a voltage to one major surface of a pair of piezoelectric motors (PZTs) on a disk drive head suspension with a primary plane of a load beam of the head suspension parallel to the major surfaces of the PZT elements electr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209323 | Slider having cavity floor with differing depths A disc head slider having a slider body that includes a bearing surface, a cavity dam and a sub-ambient pressure cavity is provided. The sub-ambient pressure cavity has a cavity floor, a plurality of sides and a depth that progressively varies between a point on one... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199978 | Method and apparatus for connecting a micro-actuator to driver arm suspension A system and method for connecting an actuator to a suspension element is disclosed. The actuator is electrically coupled using a silver paste. The silver paste is further covered by a coating application to provide structural support. A step, attached to either the... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199981 | High reliability-parallel data transfer hard disk drive A dual actuator arm assembly system that uses two pairs of actuator-carriage arms that linearly move over a stationary micro-rail independently. The geometric shape of the two pairs of actuator carriage arms conform to the arcs of the data tracks at an acute angle. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190547 | Methods for detecting contact between a read-write head and the accessed disk surface in a hard disk drive Determining a contact condition between read-write head and accessed disk surface inside hard disk drive, where micro-actuator assembly mechanically couples to slider and electrically interacts through signal path. Signal path sensed, creating sensed feedback signal... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190554 | Magnetic head suspension A magnetic head suspension of the present invention includes a flexure, a load-bent portion, a load beam and a base portion. The base portion has a main body and an embedded body embedded in the main body so as to be positioned in a region where the main body and th... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187486 | Electromechanical drives adapted to provide two degrees of mobility An electromechanical system having an object and drives adapted to cooperate to provide the object with two degrees of mobility is described herein. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177119 | Microactuated head suspension with ring springs A microactuated head suspension including a mounting region for attachment of the head suspension to a source of primary actuation, a pair of generally arcuate ring springs and a connecting member. The ring springs at spaced locations extending from the mounting reg... | 02/13/2007 |
