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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7961427 | High performance computer hard disk drive with a carbon overcoat and method of improving hard disk performance A high performance hard disk drive is disclosed in which a flying read/write head runs in contact or in near contact with a rotating platter. In this design there is no wear of the hard disk platter or flying head due to both head and platter being coated with an am... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957095 | Disk drive having a stationary plate facing a disk and with a recirculation filter coupled to grooves in the stationary plate A novel disk drive is disclosed and claimed. The disk drive includes a disk and a spindle motor to which the disk is attached to rotate about an axis of rotation. The disk drive also includes a stationary plate facing and disposed over the disk, wherein the stationa... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7787213 | Disk drive flow control plate with integrated air management features A flow control plate (152) for a disk drive is disclosed. The flow control plate (152) includes both a diffuser section (156) and an air displacement section (168). The diffuser section (156) is contained within a pocket (160 | 08/31/2010 |
| 7701700 | Disk-drive systems with a varying number of spares for different expected lifetimes and method A system and method for an improved multiple hard-disk-drive data-storage enclosure. Some embodiments position drives in counter-rotating pairs, each simultaneously accessing half the data, such that seek-caused actuator rotational-acceleration vibration cause simul... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7626805 | Disk-drive system supporting massively parallel video streams and method A system and method for an improved multiple hard-disk-drive data-storage enclosure. Some embodiments position drives in counter-rotating pairs, each simultaneously accessing half the data, such that seek-caused actuator rotational-acceleration vibration cause simul... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7593181 | Disk vibration damper having an integrated air circulation guide A stationary plate functions as a vibration damper and has an integrated air filtration guide. In one embodiment the stationary plate is disposed between two adjacent disks, and the guide comprises one or more grooves through which rotation-induced air may flow. In ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7573673 | Air baffle device with a plurality of metal plates for reducing disk stack vibration in media servowriter The present invention provides an air baffle device for reducing disk vibration of a disk drive, where the air baffle device comprises a plurality of metal plates, and a fastening means for assembling the plurality of metal plates into a multi-layered structure. In ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7525759 | Magnetic disk device with improved shielding Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk device which improves the shielding function for the magnetic heads while maintaining a form factor having an inexpensive constitution. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a rotary disk-type magnet... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7499243 | Disk drive with support structure for air dams and disk-vibration capacitive sensors A data recording disk drive has one or more capacitive sensors for sensing out-of-plane vibration of the disk or disks. The sensors are attached to a support structure that is attached to the disk drive housing. Each sensor is associated with a disk and faces a surf... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7453667 | Hard disk drive, hard disk damper, and method for the same A hard disk drive, hard (HDD) disk damper, and method for the same. The HDD may include a base member, a spindle motor installed on the base member, a plurality of data storage disks mounted on the spindle motor, an actuator pivotably installed on the base member to... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450339 | Disk drive with support structure for damping plates and disk-vibration capacitive sensors A data recording disk drive has one or more capacitive sensors for sensing out-of-plane vibration of the disk or disks. The sensors are attached to a support structure that is attached to the disk drive housing. Each sensor is associated with a disk and faces a surf... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7428122 | Hermetically sealed disk drive with low height An assembly structure low in height and suitable for downsizing and for high hermeticity sealing in a micro hard disk drive is provided. Burrings projecting toward a top cover and having an internal thread cut are formed on a base plate where the top cover is screw-... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420775 | Hard disk drive A hard disk drive (HDD) and method, with the HDD including a housing, having a base member and a cover member attached to each other, a plurality of disks, rotatably stacked on the base member and spaced apart from one another, an actuator installed on the base memb... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7404836 | Focused flow filter A filter assembly for use in a disk drive assembly is disclosed. The filter assembly is configured to remove contaminants within the drive assembly and to prevent entry of contaminants into the drive assembly. In one implementation the filter assembly includes a hou... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7405904 | Aerodynamic diverter integrated with a diffuser and a contraction in a bypass channel for a disk storage device A device streamlines air flow inside a hard disk drive with a stationary afterbody that is located adjacent to each of the disks. A diverter portion of the device enhances the volumetric flow of air through a diffuser and a contraction. The overall function of the d... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397631 | Stamped stators for disk drives Disk stators or air deflectors are provided for controlling undesirable air flow characteristics in a disk drive. In a four-disk pack arrangement, the stators are arranged in a group of three stacked stators wherein a middle or interior stator is planar, and the upp... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382571 | Pressure equalizing fluid flow stripper apparatus Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to attenuating excitation energy of a rotatable storage medium using one or more plates each having a plurality of parallel channels to buffer fluid flow across an associated medium surface. A prefe... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375922 | Mounting apparatus for data storage device A mounting apparatus for securing a data storage device (10) defining a number of fixing apertures (101) includes a bracket assembly (20), and a number of resilient gaskets (30). The bracket assembly comprises a first bracket (210)... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372662 | Base deck with formed-in-place gaskets and impact dissipation members for a data storage device A base deck is provided and includes a base plate having a plurality of parallel surfaces and a plurality of gasket retention grooves formed. A first gasket retention groove is formed in one of the plurality of parallel surfaces that is proximate a top cover. A seco... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363777 | Closed cassette and method for heat treating glass sheets A convection compatible closed cassette and method are described herein where the closed cassette is used to heat treat (compact) one or more glass sheets in a uniform manner and in a clean environment. In the preferred embodiment, the closed cassette includes multi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356908 | Method of assembling a disk drive unit via a ramp tool A disk drive unit includes a first cover having a first part of magnet component and a head stack assembly mounted on the first cover; and a second cover assembled with the first cover, which having a second part of magnet component, a spindle motor and at least one... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355811 | Hermetically sealed housing with interior capture plate A method and apparatus for aligning and securing a spindle shaft and actuator shaft in a low-density gas-filled hard disk drive and independent of the disk drive cover is provided. A capture plate is positioned above the memory disk(s) and is secured to the base pla... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353524 | Disk drive with airflow channeling enclosure A disk drive includes a disk drive base, a disk, and a head stack assembly rotatably coupled to the base adjacent the disk surface of the disk. The disk drive includes an airflow channeling enclosure. The enclosure includes an airflow inlet disposed downstream of th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336440 | Magnetic disc unit with gap between magnetic disc and shroud A magnetic disc unit includes a rotating disc type magnetic disc having an outer periphery, and a carriage arm linked to a head support mechanism for a recording/reproducing head. A base has an outer periphery and mounts the rotating disc type magnetic disc and the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334243 | Vane integration into motor hub to enhance CD cooling The present invention relates to the cooling of electronic components such as CD or DVD players and recorders and the disc or discs within. Specifically, the present invention relates to the internal cooling of a disc playing or recording device and the disc or disc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7330334 | Magnetic disk apparatus with shroud and having open space downstream of moveable arms in communication with bypass channel A magnetic disk apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic disks driven to rotate by a spindle motor, arms supporting magnetic heads on the magnetic disks, an actuator for moving the arms on the magnetic disks by a voice coil motor, and a housing which surrounds the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329308 | Air handling and chemical filtration system and method The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling humidity and temperature in gases or air streams used in semiconductor processing systems. These systems and methods can be used in combination with systems and methods for contaminant detection an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327530 | Hard disk drive having disk damper and disk protector A hard disk drive (HDD) having a disk damper and a disk protector. The HDD includes a base member, a spindle motor installed on the base member, a plurality of data storage disks mounted on the spindle motor, an actuator pivotably installed on the base member and mo... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324302 | System, method, and apparatus for breaking up large-scale eddies and straightening air flow inside rotary disk storage devices A system, method, and apparatus for solving flow-induced track misregistration (TMR) problems in hard disk drives (HDD) are directed to breaking up large-scale eddies, and straightening air flows with honeycomb structures, woven wire screens, and guide vanes or hole... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318859 | Modular adsorbent filters A compact sorbent filter for selectively sorbing contaminants and method of removing contamination from an enclosure with a filter is disclosed. Filters of the present invention comprise two or more modular adsorbent units that can be foldably connected and possibly... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315434 | Magnetic disk drive apparatus support arm fixing structure A magnetic disk drive apparatus includes a housing member with at least one opened face, a cover member for covering the at least one opened face of the housing member, a head gimbal assembly including a magnetic head slider and a suspension for supporting the magne... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7312950 | Air stream filtration system adjacent a rotational element of a data storage device A system includes at least two discs that rotate about a central axis. The system also includes an actuator mechanism that is configured to position transducing heads and at least one filter disposed between two discs to filter airflow. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312949 | Base deck with overmolded elastomeric and rigid structural components A base deck for a data storage device is preferably formed from a stamped, or fine blanked metallic platform portion, which supports an over-mold portion. The over-mold portion is a combination of elastomeric components and rigid structural components. In addition t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301726 | Banded LZT CSS zone A magnetic recording disk having a non laser zone texturing (LZT) band in the contact-start-stop (CSS) zone. The width of the non-LZT band in the CSS zone may be greater than the width of a read and/or write element of a head and less than the width of a center pad ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301776 | Light-weight flash hard drive with plastic frame A light-weight flash hard drive includes a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) mounted in a housing formed by a plastic frame and a pair of metal panels that are mounted on the plastic frame over the PCBA. The PCBA includes a PC board and a plug connector that is ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291208 | Grooved active and passive adsorbent filters The invention relates to a device for filtering contaminants, such as particulates and vapor phase contaminants, from a confined environment such as electronic or optical devices susceptible to contamination (e.g. computer disk drives) by improving performance and p... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292406 | Disk drive including a spindle motor and a pivot bearing cartridge attached to different layers of a laminated cover A disk drive includes a spindle motor, a pivot bearing cartridge, and a laminated cover. The laminated cover includes a first cover layer attached to the spindle motor, and a second cover layer attached to the pivot bearing cartridge. The cover further includes a da... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292407 | Disk drive with support structure for disk-vibration capacitive sensors A data recording disk drive has one or more capacitive sensors for sensing out-of-plane vibration of the disk or disks. The sensors are attached to a support structure that is attached to the disk drive housing. Each sensor is associated with a disk and faces a surf... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289294 | Particle remover for data storage device and ramp having the particle remover A particle remover for a data storage device that removes particles attached to a surface of a disk, the particle remover including a fixed portion installed on a base plate of the data storage device; and pressure plates extending from the fixed portion toward the ... | 10/30/2007 |
