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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8339748 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator bonded to a flexure Disclosed is a suspension assembly for a disk drive that includes: a mounting plate having a top-side and a bottom-side; a microactuator mounting structure formed in the mounting plate; a microactuator mounted in the microactuator mounting structure in which the mic... | 12/25/2012 |
| 7876532 | Low-profile rotary motor with fixed back iron A rotary actuator motor is provided including a stationary coil section and a rotating magnet. The magnet is incorporated with the pivot bearing assembly, and the coil section is aligned with the magnet along an axis of rotation of the actuator. The magnet fully enc... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7369345 | Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection A system provided for protecting a disk drive from impact damages. More specifically, a disk drive is provided that includes an accelerometer interconnected to a printed circuit board that detects free fall of the disk drive. In addition, the velocity of spinning di... | 05/06/2008 |
| 6980401 | Head stack and actuator arm assemblies including a bobbin to stiffen the coil portion of an actuator of a hard disk drive and disk drives including the same A disk drive includes a disk and a head stack assembly for reading and writing to the disk. The head stack assembly includes a body portion defining a through bore that defines a pivot axis; an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion and a head gimbal assemb... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6826009 | Disk drive including a filter element disposed along a disk surface for filtering disk rotation induced airflow A disk drive including a disk drive base. The disk drive further includes at least one rotatable disk including a disk surface extending to an outer disk edge. The disk drive further includes a head stack assembly rotatably attached to the disk drive base in operabl... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6704167 | Disk drive including damping member disposed upon latch for damping tang-to-latch impact and mitigating tang-to-latch contact A disk drive includes a disk drive base and a latch attached to the disk drive base. The latch includes a latch impact surface having a latch impact surface perimeter. The latch impact surface perimeter defines a latch impact surface area. The disk drive ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698286 | Method of balancing a disk pack using spindle motor imbalance and disk drive including a balanced disk pack A method of balancing a disk pack for use in a disk drive according to an aspect of the present invention. The disk pack includes a spindle motor and a rotatable disk. The spindle motor is configured to rotate the disk about an axis of rotation of the spi... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6583968 | Spindle motor hub having equivalent MR read element bias voltage to mitigate potential between disk and MR read element An aspect of the invention can be regarded as a disk drive that includes a disk drive base and a magnetic disk. The disk drive further includes a rotary actuator coupled to the disk drive base. The rotary actuator has an MR read element disposed adjacent ... | 06/24/2003 |
