Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hideyuki Miyazaki

Keigo Takahashi

Yoshiki Sakurai

Toshikuni Sato

Hiroyuki Kuno

Machio Shimanuki

Kunio Hamanaka

Takeshi Okutomi

According to one embodiment of the invention, a disk drive apparatus includes a case, a disk-shaped recording medium, a drive motor, a head, a head actuator, and a latch mechanism configured to latch the head actuator and hold the head actuator at a retracted position when the head actuator receives an external force. A latch member of the latch mechanism is arranged to be movable between a latch position and a release position and has an abutment portion, which abuts the head actuator when the head actuator moves from the information processing position to the retracted position, and a latch claw which latches the head actuator. The abutment portion has a first abutment portion, which abuts the head actuator first, and a second abutment portion, which abuts the head actuator following the first abutment portion, and the first abutment portion being formed less rigid than the second abutment portion.

Disk drive apparatus

A disk drive includes a casing having a mount surface. The casing houses a disk-shaped recording medium, a drive motor which supports and rotates the recording medium, a head which performs information processing for the recording medium, a head actuator configured to movably support the head and move the head relative to the recording medium. A control circuit board is arranged to overlap the mount surface of the casing. A holding seal is adhered to the control circuit board and the casing, covering a peripheral portion of the control circuit board to press the peripheral portion to the mount surface.

Disk drive having holding member to secure control circuit board externally mounted to drive casing

A magnetic disk apparatus, a method for assembling an actuator mechanism thereof and an assembling unit of the actuator mechanism, wherein a plurality of head arms are installed integrally onto an arm supporting block and a head assembly is fixed to these head arms by use of arm mounting assembly. Also, an assembling method and assembling unit suitable for installing the head assembly to the head arm in the case that a plurality of head arms are installed integrally onto the arm supporting block. Because a plurality of head arms are installed integrally onto the arm supporting block, its assembling work is simple, the cost is decreased, and still more it is possible to effectively reduce a latent off-track of magnetic head.

Method for assembling the actuator mechanisms of a magnetic disk

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Ome, Japan

Hideyuki Miyazaki