Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278849 | Flow balancer for track misregistration improvement - Disclosed is a hard disk drive that includes at least one disk enclosed by a cover and a disk. A damper is separated from the disk by an air gap about 1.0 mm. The damper and air gap reduce the velocity of the air flow and any vibration associated with the flow of air. | 11-13-2008 |
20080304178 | High-flow rate filter wall design - A hard disk drive that includes a disk, a head, and a filter enclosed by a base plate and a cover plate. The base plate has a filter wall with a fore end and an aft end. The fore end of the filter wall has a tapered surface that extends to an apex. The distal end of the filter wall has a first filter attachment portion separated from a second filter attachment portion by a groove. The second filter attachment portion may be longer than the first filter attachment portion. The filter wall induces a flow of air that inhibits particle attachment to a reverse side of the filter. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304183 | Flexure for head gimbal assembly with narrow gimbal width in a hard disk drive - A hard disk drive and head gimbal assembly including a flexure finger with a micro-actuator split of the flexure supporting a micro-actuator control line, leading to minimized gimbal width for the flexure finger about the micro-actuator assembly including the coupled slider and micro-actuators to reduce mechanical vibrations caused by wind off of a rotating disk surface accessed by the slider. | 12-11-2008 |
20090034128 | Method and apparatus for independent piezoelectric excitation in the micro-actuator assemblies of a hard disk drive for improved drive reliability - A hard disk drive using a micro-actuator assembly to position a slider over a track on a rotating disk surface. The micro-actuator assembly includes a first piezoelectric device and a second piezoelectric device, both mechanically coupled to the slider. The first piezoelectric device includes a first terminal electrically coupled to a first voltage line and a second terminal electrically coupled to a ground line. The second piezoelectric device includes a third terminal electrically coupled to a ground line and a fourth terminal electrically coupled to a voltage line. A voltage applied to the first voltage line stimulates only the first piezoelectric device to alter a lateral position of the slider over the rotating disk surface, and a second voltage applied to the second voltage line stimulates only the second piezoelectric device to alter the lateral position of the slider over the rotating disk surface. | 02-05-2009 |
20090210206 | Method and for wide track erasure in a hard disk drive - A method and its implementation as a program system are disclosed herein for generating an air flow report based upon a cellular model of the air flow of a hard disk drive including a parameterized component approximated by a component parameter list and a map of the partitioned regions of the hard disk drive. The air flow report is generated based upon the cellular model and a partition/region map. The partition/region map lumps the simulation domain into a small number of regions and then calculates the fluxes across boundaries of the regions. These fluxes accumulate the results of many individual cells, averaging out small variations caused by rounding and/or the convergence properties of the specific cellular approach used. A simulation figure of merit is calculated from the air flow report that further refines the accuracy, effectively removing even more noise. | 08-20-2009 |
20100007987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DAMPENING AND FILTERING AIR FLOW EFFECTS IN A HARD DISK DRIVE - A hard disk drive is disclosed including at least one air filter mounted on a shroud wall of the base and at least two disk dampers where at least one disk damper covers a fraction of the maximal covering angle configured with the air filter to optimize both the air filter and disk dampening. Methods of manufacturing the hard disk drive are also disclosed. | 01-14-2010 |
20100067147 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A HARD DISK DRIVE INCLUDING A BALANCED MICRO-ACTUATOR - This application discloses a hard disk drive, a head stack assembly, and a head gimbal assembly, each including a micro-actuator hinge configured to position a slider over a rotating disk surface with greater stroke sensitivity while reducing bending perpendicular to the disk surface. The micro-actuator hinge includes at least one micro-actuator, a hinge plate and at least one hinge plate cover, with the micro-actuator including a first region and a second region, each coupled between the hinge plate and the hinge plate cover. | 03-18-2010 |
20100177443 | IN-SITU DYNAMIC PITCH AND ROLL ADJUSTMENT IN HARD DISK DRIVES - Disclosed is a head gimbal assembly for a hard disk drive that includes a head pivotally connected to a flexure. The flexure has a longitudinal axis. The assembly includes first and second micro-actuators that are located between the flexure and the head and spaced from the longitudinal axis. By way of example, the first and second micro-actuators may be thin piezo-electric transducers. Control signals can be provided to the micro-actuators to vary the pitch and/or roll of the head. | 07-15-2010 |
20100188777 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DISK DAMPER INCLUDING AN ENCLOSING FLOW CHAMBER WALL FOR A HARD DISK DRIVE - A hard disk drive with a disk base including a disk wall with a first intake, a second intake off of the first intake, an outlet and an air filter configured to receive a first airflow from the first intake and suction from a second airflow from the second intake creating negative pressure at a trapping surface of the air filter away from the outlet. At least one disk rotates to create a rotating disk surface generating airflow configured to enter the first intake to create the first airflow. A disk damper includes an enclosing wall neighboring the air filter to create a flow chamber providing a third airflow through the outlet formed of the first air flow crossing the trapping surface and the second air flow. A disk cover mounts on the disk base to encapsulate the air chamber. The disk base and disk damper are disclosed. | 07-29-2010 |