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7369368 Head stack assembly having an actuator body with multiple slots adjacent to a bore  
A head stack assembly for a disk drive includes an actuator body. The actuator body includes a pair of sides, a bore defining a longitudinal axis, a first slot extending between the pair of sides,...
7367107 Method for making a disk drive head stack assembly having a tapered pivot bearing  
A disk drive head stack assembly ( 66 ) of a configuration that facilitates the assembly thereof is disclosed. One or more head/arm assemblies ( 74 ) are mounted on a pivot bearing ( 118 ). This...
7365947 Head support mechanism, head arm assembly, and disk drive apparatus with head arm assembly with weight formed around horizontal bearing  
A head support mechanism includes a rigid support arm, a suspension for supporting, at its leading end section, a head slider with at least one head element, the suspension having a balance...
7355819 Machining actuator periphery to reduce resonance variation  
A method of manufacturing a disc drive actuator is provided. The method includes manufacturing a disc drive actuator and machining a peripheral surface of the actuator. The peripheral surface is...
7352537 Tuned damper for disk drive actuator arm  
Embodiments of the present invention include a disk drive actuator arm for reducing amplitude of vibration modes substantially planar to a disk surface. The actuator arm comprises a plurality of...
7322094 Method for manufacturing a head stack assembly  
A head stack assembly of a disk drive unit including a head arm assembly (HAA) having a head gimbal assembly, a drive arm to be connected with the head gimbal assembly; wherein the drive arm...
7299536 Method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly  
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA), reducing complexity of design and difficulty of manufacture, is disclosed.
7274537 Windage stripper for an actuator and rotating disc  
An actuator with a moveable block and supporting a cantilevered arm has a windage stripper supported for movement in unison with the block and spanning a cantilevered length of the arm. The...
7193820 Head actuator having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers  
An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external...
7193819 Method of assembling a disk drive including actuating a shipping comb to bend a suspension vertically to facilitate a merge tool  
A head stack assembly (HSA) is disclosed for use in a disk drive comprising a disk, wherein a merge tool is used to merge the HSA with the disk. The HSA comprises at least one actuator arm with a...
7165314 Method for manufacturing a magnetic head arm assembly (HAA)  
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA) is disclosed. The HAA includes three principal components, a head gimbal assembly (HGA), a flexible printed circuit (FPC)...
7151649 Arm-suspension-pivot bearing integral design  
A solid-state actuation mechanism for use in a data storage system. The actuation mechanism includes an anchor fixedly attached to a housing of the data storage system, a spring member including a...
7150094 Method of stiffening an actuator comb and coil assembly  
A voice coil and actuator yoke assembly is fabricated by deforming the coil to exactly fit the inner perimeter and thickness of the yoke. The comb is placed in a tool that registers the comb with...
7046484 Magnetic head supporting device having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers  
An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external...
7016157 E-block having improved resonance characteristics and improved fragility  
An improved E-block for positioning one or more transducer assemblies proximate one or more rotating storage disks of a disk drive is provided herein. The E-block includes an actuator hub and one...
6989970 Rotary actuator assembly for a rotatable media data storage device  
Assemblies in accordance with the present invention can access a data storage medium having one or more disks. One such assembly comprises a mounting block including a bore and at least one arm...
6970327 Data storage device with damped load arm formed from Mn-Cu alloy composition  
A data access assembly with a load arm formed from an Mn—Cu alloy is disclosed. The load arm may be supported by and actuator arm formed from a common Mn—Cu damping alloy, which has a...
6963472 Flexural pivot for rotary disc drive actuator  
The present invention provides for a flexural pivot that can be fitted within a cavity of an actuator. The pivot includes a first member that can be coupled to the wall defining the cavity and a...
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...
6950284 Cleating features to improve adhesive interface between an actuator tang and a tang-supporting surface of an actuator assembly of a hard disk drive  
A disk drive includes a disk, a latch assembly including a magnet and a head stack assembly for reading and writing to the disk. The head stack assembly includes a body portion defining a through...
6950283 Stacked actuator arm assembly clamp  
A stacked actuator assembly has symmetrical actuator arms and spacers stacked on a rotatable sleeve. The assembly may have circuit elements or other elements attached on one side of the assembly....
6941641 Method for mounting an arm to an actuator  
A method for mounting removably secured actuator arms that include head suspensions to an actuator assembly spindle. Each arm is mounted to an actuator spindle via a spacer with an annular lip with...
6937443 System and method for a three-piece design of a magnetic head assembly  
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA) is disclosed. The HAA includes three principal components, a head gimbal assembly (HGA), a flexible printed circuit (FPC)...
6903903 Disk drive head stack assembly having a tapered pivot bearing  
A disk drive head stack assembly ( 66 ) of a configuration that facilitates the assembly thereof is disclosed. One or more head/arm assemblies ( 74 ) are mounted on a pivot bearing ( 118 ). This...
6879466 Disk drive including an actuator with a constrained layer damper disposed upon an actuator body lateral surface  
An actuator for a disk drive. The actuator includes an actuator body defining an axis of rotation and including a body lateral surface disposed generally parallel to the axis of rotation. The...
6813120 Encased E-block  
A disc drive, includes a base, a disc stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. The actuator assembly includes an E-block. The E-block for a disc...
6809906 Actuator molding and baking process parameters for polyphenylene sulfide 40% glass fill for high temperature overmold carriage operation in hard disk drives  
A method is provided for forming a body for a hard disk carriage assembly from polyphenylene sulfide 40% glass fill. An injection mold is heated to approximately 130° C.; then a volume of...
6781796 Counterbalance fastener for a disc drive stacked actuator  
A stacked actuator for controllably positioning a data transducing head adjacent a data recording surface in a disc drive, and a method for fabricating the stacked actuator. The stacked actuator is...
6772506 Method for detaching swaged components of a disc drive  
A method for detaching a suspension assembly adapted to support a head staked to an actuator arm of an actuator block of a disc drive. The method includes the steps of inserting an expandable...
6765764 E-block with stamped and drawn actuator arm members  
An E-block of an actuator for use in a data handling system to support a read/write head adjacent a recording surface. The E-block is formed by providing feed stock along a planar orientation,...
6738229 Head stack assembly having decreased track misregistration characteristics  
An E-block ( 20 ) and head stack assembly ( 15 ) for maintaining one or more data transducers ( 18 ) proximate one or more rotating storage disks ( 28 ) of a disk drive ( 10 ) is provided herein....
6738228 Magnetic head positioner assembly  
A magnetic head positioner assembly comprises a plurality of magnetic head support members individually provided with magnetic heads, an arm, and a movable coil which is held by the movable coil...
6704995 Method for swaging a suspension assembly to an actuator arm of an actuator block  
A method for swaging a suspension assembly to an actuator arm of a data storage device is disclosed. The method includes steps of inserting a deformable tubular stake into an aperture of an...
6704170 Actuator molding and baking process parameters for polyphenylene sulfide 40% glass fill for high temperature overmold carriage operation in hard disk drives  
A method is provided for forming a body for a hard disk carriage assembly from polyphenylene sulfide 40% glass fill. An injection mold is heated to approximately 130° C.; then a volume of...
6687094 Head actuator for a data storage head having a low mass with lateral stiffness  
An actuator having a relatively low mass for supporting flexible head suspension assemblies to read data from or write data to discs. The actuator includes an actuator body adapted to rotationally...
6687093 Head stack assembly shipping comb with temporary locating feature for internal head disk assembly build process and disk drive manufactured using the same  
Disclosed herein is a disk drive that includes a housing including a base, the base defining a blind receptacle, a spindle motor attached to the base, a disk mounted to the spindle motor and a head...
6665150 Contamination control on actuator arms in a disk drive  
A hard disk drive actuator includes a plurality of arms for holding the heads over the disks. Each arm has one or more contaminant collectors for collecting contaminants, such as airborne...
6661615 Apparatus and method for depopulating a disk drive head stack assembly by utilizing an overmolded actuator  
A head stack assembly for a hard disk drive has an actuator comb body, a coil yoke, at least one actuator arm, and a prosthesis. The prosthesis is an artificial or replacement arm and is preferably...
6633452 Disk drive apparatus, hard disk drive, and enclosure for hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive apparatus is capable of reducing a noise effectively during operation and capable of enhancing the reliability of the drive. The hard disk drive has first and second ribs that are...
6631053 Actuator pivot assembly that pivotally connects an actuator to a base of a disk drive  
A disk drive includes an actuator with a shaft and a base with a sleeve that receives the shaft and includes as least one bearing. The shaft extends into the sleeve and through the bearing where it...
6618226 Locally deformable sleeve on disk drive pivot assembly  
A disk drive pivot assembly has a locally deformable internal sleeve that is equipped with two small deformable zones where the sleeve makes contact with the actuator comb bore. The zones can be in...
6563676 Disk drive actuator arm  
An actuator arm for a disk drive includes a flat sheet of material having a predetermined configuration. This arm lies pivotally mounted to a base of the disk drive; and it supports a coil assembly...
6532137 Head assembly, disk drive apparatus, hard disk drive and method for manufacturing disk drive apparatus  
A disk drive head assembly enables adjustment of a center of gravity of the head assembly of a depopulation version, while suppressing an occurrence of a resonance frequency affecting the...
6525910 Threadably mountable drive actuator bearing assembly  
An actuator assembly suitable for a disc drive with at least one rotating disc for storing information. The actuator assembly has an actuator body having a mounting opening with at least a portion...
6487053 System for improved assembly and manufacture of miniature data recording devices and head stack assemblies  
A head stack assembly for a data recording disk drive has a carriage on which a coil is mounted. The carriage has a first surface and a second surface. A first head gimbal assembly is mounted on...
6480364 Thermally compensated rotary positioning system for a disc drive  
Apparatus and method for cooling the actuator coil with a suitable heat sink structure. The heat sink thermally couples the coil to one or more of the head-carrying arms, which are positioned close...
6480363 Hard disk drive actuator assembly with damped tolerance ring for enhancing drive performance during structural resonance modes  
A damped tolerance ring assembly has an outer tolerance ring, an inner tolerance ring, and an elastomeric layer bonded therebetween. The tolerance rings are metal, spring-like split rings. Each...
6469872 Featherweight actuator for disc drives  
A lightweight actuator for use in a disc drive where the actuator body, yoke and actuator arms are molded as a unitary article. The actuator is preferably molded from a composite material chosen on...
6466414 Continuously wound fiber-reinforced disk drive actuator assembly  
A near net shape fiber composite actuator assembly that requires little to no secondary finishing operations such as cutting or machining of the fiber structure to form the periphery of the...
6411472 Dual metal laminate tolerance ring for acoustic and vibration damping  
A disc drive, includes a base, a disc stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. The actuator assembly includes arms on one end for holding the one...
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