Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Gregory Joseph Arnone

Jr-Yi Shen

Ta-Chang Fu

Robert Carl Reinhart

Yiduo Zhang

Yanchu Xu

Zhong-Qing Gong

Khaled M Fawzi

David John Loader

Swaging a suspension base plate to an actuator arm for a hard disk drive. A portion of material adjacent to a hole in the actuator arm is removed to create an opening to receive material. A flange of the suspension base plate is inserted into the hole in the actuator arm. The suspension base plate is swaged to the actuator arm, wherein the swaging causes material from the suspension base plate to flow into the opening.

Reducing gram load change in actuator arm in a hard disk drive

An integrated pivot-carriage for a hard disk drive for improving a pivot bonding process. Embodiments include a pivot-bearing assembly comprising an upper bearing, a lower bearing and a pivot-bearing spacer there between; a carriage comprising: a center-bore within which a pivot-shaft coupled with the pivot-bearing assembly is disposed; and a plurality of pivot-bonding glue dispensers, each of the pivot-bonding glue dispensers comprising: a glue inlet; a glue outlet; and an enclosing wall defining an interior flow passage between the glue inlet and the glue outlet, the interior flow passage configured for conveying bonding glue there through; and a glue receiving region coupling the glue outlet with a bearing of the upper and the lower bearing, the glue receiving region configured for receiving bonding glue dispensed thereto, thereby bonding the pivot-bearing assembly with the carriage.

Integrated pivot-carriage for improving pivot bonding process

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Gregory Joseph Arnone