Fujitsu Corporation

Hideaki Kamezawa

Takashi Matsumoto

Kenichi Myokan

Toshiyuki Hachiya

Takayuki Bitoh

Koichiro Ohba

A carriage arm and a hard disk drive unit including the carriage arm, where the carriage arm includes a head slider mounting part and a voice coil attachment part integrally formed with each other by a metal plate being press punched so that the head slider mounting part and the voice coil attachment part are arranged opposite to each other with respect to a rotational axis of the carriage arm. Additionally, the head slider mounting part defines a first plane and the voice coil attachment part defines a second plane that is different from the first plane, and where the head slider mounting part and the voice coil attachment part are connected to each other by a bent portion.

Hard disk drive unit having a reduced size and cost

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, and an actuator for moving the head across the tracks of the disk. The cover is composed of a molded resin and a metal sheet integrally embedded in the molded resin.

Growing community of inventors

Kawasaki, Japan

Hideaki Kamezawa