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7072140 Disk drive having airflow adjusting mechanism and thin-plate member incorporated therein  
A disk drive 10 includes a thin-plate member 38 fixedly attached at a desired location to an inner wall surface 36 defining a recess 24 of a casing 12 . The thin-plate member 38 includes...
7068465 Magnetic shield for the drive housing of a recording drive  
A drive housing ( 22 ) for shielding a storage disk ( 13 ) and a data transducer ( 48 ) of a disk drive ( 10 ) from external magnetic fields includes a housing shield ( 24 ) positioned near the...
7064920 Disk drive and breather filter having multiple ventilation paths and method of inspecting same  
A disk drive has an internal breather filter that performs a filtration function while maintaining ventilation with an exterior of the drive. The filter circulates a gas between an interior and the...
7062837 Method for manufacturing a disk drive with a hinged head disk assembly enclosure  
A disk drive includes an enclosure that defines an exterior surface, the enclosure including a base, a cover and a hinge mechanically coupling the base to the cover such that the hinge forms a...
7064931 Disc drive suspension optimized for preload bend damper  
A suspension for supporting a transducer in a data storage system includes a longitudinal axis, a proximal mounting section, and first and second opposing side edges. The suspension includes a...
7057851 Diversion of tangential airflow in a disc drive  
A disc drive includes a housing surrounding a voice coil in a voice coil cavity, and a disc in a disc cavity. The disc has data tracks and an outer diameter. The disc rotates to induce an airflow...
7057850 Flow divider upstream of disc drive recirculation filter  
A disc drive includes a housing enclosing a spindle motor that is able to spin a disc. A filter within the housing is positioned so that a filter stream of moving gas created by a spinning motion...
7054103 Downstream finned stripper shroud airstream conditioning apparatus for a disc drive  
An airstream conditioning apparatus for a data storage device employing a spinning data storage disc and an actuator operatively interfacing in a data reading and writing relationship. The...
7050263 Hard disc drive cover-integrated gasket  
A hard disc drive cover-integrated gasket, which comprises a metallic cover and a packing material integrated with the metallic cover, the packing material being a molding material from a mixture...
7046469 Hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive is disclosed which is highly reliable against environmental changes. A breather hole is formed in an enclosure which houses therein a magnetic disk and a magnetic head. An...
7046470 Data storage system  
The information storage apparatus has an internal structure and arrangement of fans in consideration of the cooling effect. The capacity of the entire apparatus can be smaller than that of a...
7035031 Installation of heater into hard disk drive to improve reliability and performance at low temperature  
A hard disk drive that includes a heater to heat an internal cavity of the drive. The disk drive may also have a temperature sensor to sense the temperature of the internal cavity, and a control...
7031104 Disk drive having guide-vanes  
A disk drive includes an enclosure, a rotatable disk and an actuator arm, and also includes a plurality of arcuate channels. Airflow is created within the enclosure when the disk rotates. The...
7031105 Media enclosures providing reduced air gap around disk drive media surfaces of a disk drive  
The inventors have discovered that aerodynamic forces contribute to disk fluttering. If the flow of air about these disk surfaces is unstable, the resulting aerodynamic forces can mechanically...
7027259 Disk unit with increased head-positioning accuracy  
A disk unit for reading information from or writing information to a disk by means of a head supported by an actuator includes a shroud having a face perpendicular to a surface of the disk and...
7024755 Method balancing a disk pack in a hard disk drive  
A method of using a balance clip in a hard disk drive spindle motor for disk pack balance correction provides the balance clip with one end that is offset from the circular shape of the balance...
7023655 Fluid guide for a data storage device  
A fluid guide for recirculating fluid through a filter in a data storage device, the data storage device having a disc rotatably supported on a base and operatively imparting a velocity to the...
7019941 Filtering apparatus of hard disk drive  
A filtering apparatus of a hard disk drive includes a filter filtering particles from air flowing inside a housing which includes a base plate and a cover plate, and two holders installed inside...
7016145 Hermetically sealed data storage device  
A hermetically sealed housing such as for use in a data storage device. The housing is formed from a pair of opposing, substantially planar first and second housing members. A gasket seal is...
7012782 Method of attenuating airflow disturbances in a hard disk drive with a circumferential motor bracket shroud for motor hub flange outside diameter  
A method of attenuating airflow disturbances in a hard disk drive utilizes a completely circumferential shroud around the motor hub flange of a hard disk drive spindle motor. The shroud is...
7012781 Laminated disc drive base  
A base for use in a disc drive includes first and second base members that are each formed of a single sheet of material. The first base member includes first and second portions. The first portion...
7009808 Stepped enclosure for minimizing airflow excitation in a data storage device  
A stepped enclosure for a rotating disc data storage device having an actuator operably moveable within a range of movement adjacent the rotating disc in a data reading and writing relationship....
7006324 Disk drive including an airflow blocker with a planar portion extending from a blocker arm portion  
A disk drive includes a disk drive base and 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...
7002774 Recirculating filter for a data storage device  
A filtering apparatus and associated method for recirculating fluid in a data storage device. The filtering apparatus comprises a fluid flow guiding member and a filter. The fluid flow guiding...
7002773 Media enclosures dampening desk vibration in single disk storage devices  
Aerodynamic forces contribute to disk and actuator vibration leading to track positioning errors in storage devices such as hard disk drives. The invention provides a variety of dampening...
6999273 Filter assembly for a data storage device  
A filter assembly for a data storage device. The filter assembly includes a flow passage having an inlet and outlet to provide a recirculating filter. The filter assembly is positioned to provide a...
6989959 Drive level flow-field conditioning to reduce flow field turbulence  
A flow control device for a data storage system to reduce flow induced vibration. The flow control device includes a plurality of streamline flow passages to reduce turbulent flow in a flow field...
6987640 Two-part flow conditioning apparatus for a disc drive  
A disc drive includes a base, at least one disc rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly rotatably attached to base and supporting a slider and a transducer at a distal end thereof....
6985317 Method and apparatus for testing the reliability of a disk drive  
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and program product for testing the reliability of a disk drive. The head-to-disk clearance of a disk drive is measured at different slider...
6980392 System and method for capturing contaminants within a disk drive  
Under the present invention, a contaminant capturing material is positioned within a disk drive. Specifically, the contaminant capturing material is positioned on a suspension, adjacent a slider...
6975483 Disk recording device for manufacturing hard disk drives  
A disk recording device to manufacture hard disk drives. This disk recording device includes a spindle to detachably hold a disk of a hard disk drive. A spindle motor rotates the spindle. A...
6975472 Head with heating element and control regime therefor  
A head with a heating element and control regime therefor is disclosed. In embodiments described, the control regime or controller energizes the heater or heating element to provide intermittent...
6972926 Disk drive having disk drive housing including airflow suppressor portion  
According to the present invention, there is provided a disk drive that includes a housing including a body portion and an airflow suppressor portion extending from the body portion. The disk drive...
6972927 Flanged breather filter cartridge with an integrated diffusion path  
A breather filter cartridge in a data storage device contains a filtration media, such as packed granular carbon, in a chamber. The cartridge incorporates a gas diffusion path that traverses...
6970322 Bulkhead connector for low leak rate disc drives  
A disc drive has a rotatable disc carried by a spindle motor and an actuator assembly with a read/write head. A base deck supports the spindle motor and the actuator assembly and defines a...
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...
6967818 Disk drive head with radially spaced read and write elements on respective protrusion pads  
The head of a disk drive has write elements disposed on one protrusion pad that wears away during initial operation to permit reduced tolerances and, thus, reduced spacing between the disk and...
6961209 Disc stabilization system  
A disc stabilization system comprises a spinning disc with a disc surface deflectable by shock. The disc surface is in contact with a gas layer adjacent the disc surface. When the suspension system...
6961207 Apparatus and method for dampening disk vibration in storage devices  
Aerodynamic forces contribute to disk and actuator vibration leading to track positioning errors in storage devices such as hard disk drives. The invention provides a variety of dampening...
6961208 Acoustically improved disc drive cover made of porous metal matrix with ceramic constrained within pores of matrix  
A top cover formed from a metal matrix composite material for use on a data storage device is disclosed. The metal matrix composite material includes a porous matrix material combined with an...
6958884 Disk drive having an acoustic damping shield assembly with an acoustic barrier layer  
A disk drive that includes a head disk assembly (HDA) comprising a base having a top base surface and a bottom base surface, and a top cover secured to the top base surface; a printed circuit board...
6956744 Computer chassis drawer guide  
In a chassis for holding drawers containing computer components or the like, accurate alignment of each drawer in its corresponding slot is provided by a plurality of alignment features along an...
6954329 Disk drive having an acoustic damping assembly with an acoustic barrier layer  
A disk drive that includes a head disk assembly (HDA) having a disk drive base, and a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) in communication with the HDA. The invention further includes an acoustic...
6950275 Disk drive having cover assembly which compresses a foam member between substantially planar rigid members  
A disk drive including a head disk assembly in communication with a printed circuit board assembly, and further includes a disk drive base and a disk drive cover assembly collectively housing a...
6947252 Wave stringer for controlling acoustic noise and shock vibration in a storage device  
A hard disk drive that includes a wave stringer. The wave stringer can attenuate energy which propagates through a base plate of the disk drive. The wave stringer may be designed by initially...
6947260 System and method of damping vibration on coil supports in high performance disk drives with rotary actuators  
A damping assembly for the actuator of high performance disk drive assembly is formed from multiple materials. The damping assembly is added to the actuator to dampen vibration that occurs during...
6940687 Rigid housing member for a data storage device with integrated contaminant adsorbent filter  
Method and apparatus for protecting a data storage device from fluid-borne contaminants. The device includes a housing in which a rotatable disc is disposed. The housing is formed from first and...
6940686 Magnetic recording and reproducing device  
A porous impregnation material ( 14 ) impregnated with a gaseous-phase lubricant that vaporizes at an atmosphere temperature within an outer case ( 2 ) is disposed in the inside of the outer case (...
6940698 Actuator for use with a disk drive having a coil assembly including a bobbin to aid in heat convection from the coil of the coil assembly  
Disclosed is an actuator for use with a disk drive having a coil assembly including a bobbin to aid in heat convection from the coil of the coil assembly. The actuator includes a body portion for...
6934118 Car disk drive unit  
To provide a car disk drive unit operating in a stable condition which is hardly affected by temperature changes in a vehicle, a car disk drive unit 1 of the present invention comprises: a casing...
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