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6480375 Protection structure for a disk drive and electronic apparatus  
To provide a protection structure for a disk drive and an electronic apparatus. The protection structure being designed not to damage a disk set in the disk drive even when a space provided to...
6473263 Cover structure of hard disk drive with air damping layer  
A cover structure of a hard disk drive (HDD) can optimally suppress noises and vibrations generated in the HDD. The hard disk drive includes a cover, a cover damper mounted on the cover, and an air...
6469890 Hard disk drive mounting device  
A mounting device ( 10 ) for mounting a hard disk drive (HDD) ( 90 ) to a computer enclosure ( 100 ) includes a support bracket ( 12 ) for attaching the HDD thereto and a securing plate ( 14 ). The...
6469864 Disk drive having a resin cover improved in electromagnetic protection characteristics  
A disk drive includes a housing having a base and a cover fixed to the base, a disk rotatably mounted in the housing and having a plurality of tracks, a head for reading/writing data on the disk,...
6466434 Disk assembly incorporating therein usb connector and computer case having therein same  
A disk assembly includes an assembly housing having a front end for inserting/retrieving therethrough a disk storing thereon computer-accessible data. The front panel is mounted at the front end...
RE37869 Head signal supply/retrieval structure for magnetic disc drive  
A disk drive having a connection structure between a head and a main flexible printed circuit sheet, allowing a signal to be supplied to and taken out of a head in response to size reduction and...
6452758 Magnetic storage apparatus  
The proposed magnetic storage apparatus has the following features. The frequency at which data is recorded is selected to be 45 MHz. The thickness, resistivity and relative permeability of the...
6446326 Method for manufacturing a hard disk read/write unit, with micrometric actuation  
The method comprises the steps of: forming an integrated device including a microactuator in a semiconductor material wafer; forming an immobilization structure of organic material on the wafer;...
6445534 Disk drive apparatus and hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive that can suppress an increase of fluttering and power consumption at high rotation speed by increasing the seek speed of a magnetic head is disclosed. An enclosure case has a 3.5...
6437939 Ergonomic safety assist mechanism for handling micro-sized computer hard disk drives  
A hard disk microdrive is equipped with an ergonomic assist mechanism for safe handling of the microdrive while removing it from a system. The mechanism is located on one end of the microdrive,...
6433956 Cordless compression motor connector for a hard disk drive  
A cordless compression motor connector connects a spindle motor inside a hard disk drive enclosure to a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted outside the disk enclosure. The disk enclosure includes a...
6429999 Pre-assembled voice coil magnetic assembly and rotatable attachment structure/method to base plate for disc drive  
A disc drive and method of making a disc drive, including a voice coil magnet assembly. The voice coil magnet assembly includes a top magnetic return plate, a bottom magnetic return plate and at...
6426847 Over-molded base plate and method of manufacture of over-molded base plate for a disc drive  
An apparatus and method of manufacturing a low cost disc drive base plate that incorporates a platform portion and one or more over-molded disc drive structural components. The platform portion of...
6424487 Energy absorbing disc travel limiter with multiple adjacent cantilevered arms to limit disc deflection  
An energy absorbing disc travel limiter which not only mechanically defines a limit to the extent to which a disc in a disc drive can be axially displaced in response to applied mechanical shocks,...
6417985 Magnetic disk drive  
A magnetic disk drive is constructed by at least one magnetic disk, a spindle motor, an actuator containing a magnetic head, a flexible printed-circuit board and a package. Herein, mechanical parts...
6418012 Assembly for components and method for mounting  
A component assembly in accordance with the present invention is disclosed. In a first aspect, the assembly includes at least one component and a bracket for holding at least one component. The...
6417991 Recording disk drive  
A recording disk drive comprises a recording disk. A head slider is supported at the tip end of a resilient suspension so as to face the recording disk. An elastic member is located behind the head...
6411463 Insert for dampening acoustic vibration and shielding magnetic flux for use in a disc drive  
The present invention is directed to an insert for use in a disc drive to dampen acoustic vibration and shield electronic elements from stray magnetic flux generated by a magnet assembly of a voice...
6407878 Horizontal loader for high density servo track writing  
One aspect of the invention relates to an apparatus and method for retaining a disc drive head disk assembly (HDA) during a servo track writing procedure. The HDA includes a base, a disc stack...
6400524 Acoustic isolator for a disc drive assembly  
Method and apparatus for reducing acoustic noise emission in a disc drive assembly. A housing of the disc drive includes first and second plates and side walls which cooperate to form an enclosure...
6400560 Engaging device for a computer screen in a car  
An engaging device for a computer screen in a car, comprises a fixing base fixedly attached in the car, lock block, and a coupling frame attached to the rear side of the computer screen. The lock...
6399179 Base plate for suspension assembly in hard disk drive with stress isolation  
A base plate comprising a hub, a flange having an outer flange region at an outer periphery of the flange and a clamping region that surrounds and is contiguous with the hub. A strain isolation...
6396661 Magnetic disk drive capable of preventing stiction of magnetic head  
A magnetic disk drive includes a magnetic recording medium rotatably mounted in a housing, a magnetic head slider having an electromagnetic transducer for reading/writing data from/to the magnetic...
6392884 Housing assembly for extractable redundant array of independent disks  
A housing assembly for an extractable redundant array of independent disks includes a main frame placed in a casing through an open end of the casing; a plurality of extractable frames aligned in...
6388834 Grounding post to reduce EMI noise effects in disc drives  
An apparatus for reducing transmission of EMI noise effects originating within disc drives by including a grounding member positioned between at least a portion of a flex circuit and an EMI noise...
6385006 High capacity, low profile disk drive system  
A disk drive system provides a low height device by mounting a circuit board or boards containing the electronic circuitry in the same enclosure with the head-disk assembly (HDA). The drive...
6385042 Portable computer structure having module room suitable for multiple replaceable modules  
A portable computer structure having a module room suitable for accommodating multiple replaceable modules is disclosed. The module room is arranged at a corner of the computer casing, and includes...
6381091 Disk drive apparatus  
A disk drive apparatus of the present invention, includes: a movable portion, a stationary portion disposed around the movable portion, and a damping portion disposed between the movable portion...
6371433 Laminated damping device for a carrier and a method for making the same  
A damping device with a top element, a bottom element, and a viscoelastic element between the top and bottom elements. The damping device exerts significant shear displacement across the...
6373654 Disk device and apparatus for writing reference signal into the device  
A disk device has a housing structure capable of reducing unnecessary vibrations of the base of the disk device by improving the rigidity thereof. A bath-tub type base of the disk device includes a...
6351376 Computer data storage device mounting apparatus  
A mounting apparatus for mounting a data storage device in a computer housing includes a bracket, a securing means and a flexible plate. The bracket has a first face for supporting a data storage...
6351378 Fixing device of a disk driver  
A fixing device of a disk driver comprises a first body, a second body and two fixing elastic pieces. The first body has a bottom plate, one side of the bottom plate is connected to lateral plate,...
6351343 Arrangement structure of the printed circuit board and the interface cable connector of a magnetic disk drive  
An arrangement structure of the printed circuit board and the interface cable connector of a magnetic disk drive for increasing the degree of freedom of the arrangement of a spindle motor, and for...
6351344 Stiffened cover for a head disc assembly of a disc drive  
A top cover for disc drives having a hydrodynamic motor configured to prevent contact between the top cover and the motor. Embodiments of the instant invention include a housing having a top cover...
6344738 Non-magnetic system for a memory disk test system  
A system for use in a memory disk test system is disclosed. The system comprises a fixture for holding a disk head and a moveable slide coupled to the fixture. The system includes a non-magnetic...
6341051 Disk drive having external shock resistance  
A disk drive including a disk rotatably mounted in a housing and having a plurality of tracks, a rotating mechanism for rotating the disk, a head slider having a transducer for reading/writing data...
6334372 Vibration-reducing device for high-speed rotational body  
A vibration-reduced disk drive system is provided. The disk drive system comprises a reading device having a mechanism for high speed rotation of a data storage disk, and a weight body disposed...
6324054 Wrap around shock absorber for disc drives  
The shock absorber apparatus for a disc drive is a molded polymeric enclosure adapted to receive and retain a disc drive. One preferred embodiment of the present invention has a shock absorbing...
6315452 Zero static-friction actuator pivot bearing for production disk drives  
A hydrostatic bearing assembly, with an integral rotating-shaft hydrodynamic pump, adapted for use as a stiff zero static-friction actuator pivot bearing for the head-stack assembly of a disk drive...
6310746 Piezoelectric vibration damping for disk drives  
The present invention provides passive and active damping systems for reducing or substantially eliminating undesirable vibrations from components of data storage and retrieval systems. The passive...
6304411 Spring-contact spindle connector  
A disc drive system includes a base or deck, a disc stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. The disc stack includes a spindle, a hub attached to...
6301073 Device for preventing mechanical shock-induced damage between actuator and disk in computer hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive for a computer has a base containing a stack of rotatable disks and an actuator with a set of arms that is pivotable relative to the disks. At least one magnetic head is mounted...
6297928 Mounting assembly for a disk drive  
A mounting assembly for securing a disk drive to a frame of a computer is provided herein. The mounting assembly includes three rigid mounts and a single flexible mount. Each rigid mount rigidly...
6292326 Disk device and removable magnetic disk device with electrically separated circuit portions for improved electro-magnetic compatibility  
The electric circuit 108 is electrically separated into two portions, a first electric circuit portion 109 and a second electric circuit portion 110 which processes a small analog signal. The...
6288014 Perfluoroacrylate ester polymer lubricant for an information storage system  
An information storage system is disclosed. The information storage system includes a rigid information storage medium, at least one read/write head, an actuator, and a lubricant. The read/write...
6288866 Disk drive including a vibration damping system having a compressible foam and mass damper fixed adjacent to the outer surface of a printed circuit board for reducing noise and vibration  
A disk drive including a head disk assembly, a planar printed circuit board and a vibration damping system. The vibration damping system is fixed adjacent the outer surface of the printed circuit...
6285524 Structure and enclosure assembly for a disk drive  
A data storage disk drive is provided with a spindle which supports a plurality of disks having at least one magnetic disk surface to form a spindle assembly for rotation of the disk surfaces about...
6282043 Magnetic reproduction apparatus for suppressing sense current shunting  
The present invention provides a magnetic recording apparatus including a magnetic recording medium and a magneto-resistance effect (MR) element opposing to the magnetic recording medium, so that...
6278574 Data storage device having a single-piece integral frame  
A data storage device has a disk-drive motor, a head-drive motor, read/write heads, and an integrated circuit board, all mounted on a single-piece integral frame and enclosed by a casing. Each...
6272011 Hard diskdrive mobile rack  
A hard diskdrive mobile rack formed of a hollow rack, a top cover and a buffer unit for mounting in the mainframe of a computer to carry a hard diskdrive for storing data, wherein the rack body has...