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7391589 Damped disc drive assembly, and method for damping disc drive assembly  
A disc drive assembly is provided including a head disc assembly, a housing having a base and a cover cooperating with one another to form a chamber in which the head disc assembly is housed, and a...
7388731 Hard disk drive recirculation air filter  
A hard disk drive recirculation filter is disposed on a housing surface of a disk drive assembly oriented adjacent to one or more disk surfaces. In one embodiment, the recirculation filter is a...
7385784 Disk drive cover with top and bottom layers electrically grounded with first and second flaps and method of manufacturing the same  
There is provided a disk drive cover. The disk drive cover includes a bottom layer including a metallic bottom layer body and a first flap formed in the bottom layer body. The first flap defines an...
7383557 Recording disk apparatus having regions of constrained thermal conduction  
In a recording disk apparatus, a pickup element and an electric element for at lease one of supplying an electric power to at least one of a recording disk driving motor and the pickup and...
7382572 Disk drive with flexible, integrated breather/recirculation filter elements  
A filter assembly in the form of a laminated structure incorporates a breather filter section and a recirculation filter section. A hinge is incorporated in the laminated structure to allow the...
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...
7379266 Disk drive including a filter component with coarse and fine sections  
There is provided a disk drive including a disk drive base, a disk rotatably coupled to the disk drive base, and a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base and configured to support the disk...
7379265 Disc drive air borne filtering channel  
A base support member for a disc drive is provided. The base support member includes a disc support cavity configured to house and support a spinning disc, and a filter support cavity configured to...
7375923 High speed and high capacity data storage array  
A data storage array is provided such as for a distributed storage system or a consumer electronics device wherein increased data storage capacity is provided at the cost of increased power...
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...
7375921 Air razor and disk limiter for a hard disk drive  
A disk drive that has an air deflector which deflects at least a portion of airflow away from an actuator arm assembly of the drive. The air flow is typically generated by a rotating disk of the...
7375911 Piezoelectric actuator and sensor for disk drive dual-stage servo systems  
A hard disk drive is disclosed comprising at least one disk rotatable about an axis, an actuator assembly moveable relative to the disk, a transducer positioned on the actuator assembly, an...
7372694 Mounting pad for disk drive  
A mounting pad for a disk drive is provided. The mounting pad includes a sealing layer, which is formed on one surface of the disk drive so that a gap between a base and a cover of the disk drive...
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...
7369356 Disk drive breathing filter including an inner tube within a collecting material storing portion of a permeable envelope  
In a case having an almost sealed structure are provided a disk-shaped recording medium, a drive motor, a head which performs information processing, a head actuator which moves the head with...
7367997 Electronic enclosure filter for very small spaces  
The present invention is directed to an improved electronic enclosure filter for very small spaces, such as small disk drives. The filter includes an exposed electrostatic layer that functions to...
7365938 Disk drive having heat sink device  
A disk drive having a base member, including: a printed circuit board installed on a rear surface of the base member, on which at least one chip is mounted; a first insulation panel arranged...
7365937 Inert gas atmosphere replenishment structure  
Method and apparatus for replenishing an inert gas atmosphere. A replenishment structure includes a reservoir which encloses an internal inert gas atmosphere. The reservoir has a permeable wall...
7362541 Two-stage sealing of a data storage assembly housing to retain a low density atmosphere  
In accordance with various embodiments, a data storage device comprises a sealed housing which encloses a data storage medium. The sealed housing comprises a substantially planar first housing...
7362540 Pressure control system for sealed enclosures  
A pressure control system for a sealed enclosure may include opposing one-way valves to limit the differential pressure between the atmospheres internal and external to the sealed enclosure. The...
7359187 Apparatus for mounting removably a disk drive in an electronic device  
An apparatus includes a casing, an electrical connector, and a latch unit. The electrical connector is provided in the casing, and is coupled electrically to a terminal of a disk drive when the...
7359144 Overmold component seal in an electronic device housing  
In general, the invention is directed to techniques for forming a seal between parts of an overmold component. The overmold component includes a first part forming one or more thorough-holes and a...
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...
7355812 Disk drive having anti-shock structure  
A disk drive having an anti-shock structure is provided. The disk drive includes: a base member; a spindle motor supported by a spindle motor support formed on the base member, the spindle motor...
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...
7349205 Disk-drive enclosure having front-back rows of substantially parallel drives 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...
7349178 Method of removing particles from an airflow and a data storage system including the same  
A data storage system is provided. The data storage system has an enclosure with at least one disc rotating about a central axis and having a corresponding airflow. The airflow is subject to...
7345845 Fluid damping structure for hard disk drives and vibration sensitive electronic devices  
A shock and vibration resistant hard disk drive has a plurality of fluid damping isolation devices disposed between the drive and a supporting frame. The isolation devices are capsules containing...
7345844 Servo track writer with helium bearing  
A servo track writer assembly and method are provided for recording servo pattern information on a disc. The servo track writer assembly includes a spindle assembly, an actuator assembly and a...
7342743 Shock-absorbing member, shock-absorbing method of electronic device employing the member, and electronic device adapting the member and the method  
Shock-absorbing member 18 , a shock-absorbing method and an electronic device employing the member are disclosed, wherein the shock-absorbing member prevents electronic equipment main body from...
7336483 External casing for a data storage device  
An external casing includes a housing housed with a data storage device and formed with an opening. An interface module is disposed in the housing, and is connected electrically to the data storage...
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...
7336439 Actuator having absorption filter and disk drive having the same  
An actuator of a disk drive to move a read/write head for recording and reproducing data to a predetermined position on a disk, the actuator includes a swing arm rotatably installed inside the disk...
7333283 Disk drive device with temperature and humidity control  
Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive device excellent in reliability that can reduce influence of a temperature change in an environment of use. In one embodiment, a disk drive device...
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...
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...
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...
7315452 Optical disk device  
An optical disk device of the present invention has a main PC board carrying a semiconductor element and attached at the rear of a drawer to efficiently dissipate a heat generated from the...
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...
7310199 Windage plate with snubber member to limit mechanical deflection  
An apparatus which provides improved fluidic control includes a circumferentially extending windage plate adapted for placement adjacent a rotatable disc surface. The plate operates to direct...
7307812 Filtering apparatus for disk drive  
A filtering apparatus of a hard disk drive which includes an actuator to move a read/write head to a predetermined position over a disk and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) bracket installed in a...
7307811 Disc storage system deck with integrally formed snubbers  
A disc storage system component includes a deck and at least one snubber. The deck is configured for a disc to be rotatably mounted adjacent thereto. The at least one snubber is formed integrally...
7306659 Adsorbent breather filter  
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...
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...
7301725 Disk drive with cover plate having high stiffness  
A disk drive comprises a cover plate with preload tension formed across the cover plate for increasing the stiffness of the cover plate. The preload tension is formed across the cover plate after...
7300500 Adsorbent-formed object and an adsorbent unit  
An adsorbent molded article comprising granular absorbant and binder having sustained adsorption over an indefinite period; an adsorbent unit employing said adsorbent molded article; and a housing...
7298584 Disk drive with a cover including a formed-in-place gasket with a cross-sectional cavity  
A disk drive includes a disk drive base and a cover engaged with the disk drive base. The disk drive further includes a formed-in-place gasket disposed between the disk drive base and the cover....
7295398 High speed cleanup of removable storage device  
A removable data cartridge is protected from air-transported particles such as dust, excessive moisture, contaminants, and the like by filtering or otherwise conditioning the airflow at initial...
7294944 Brushless motor  
A compact, highly accurate and inexpensive brushless motor is disclosed. A bearing is fixed to the inner periphery of a cylindrical portion of a housing, and a shaft is rotatably inserted through...
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...
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