Seagate Technology Incorporated

Jeffrey Leonard Bruce

Jerome Thomas Coffey

Samuel E Severson

David Lapp

David G Fitzgerald

Darrel Ray Culver

Patrick J Hains

Robert A Alt

Iraj Jabbari

John Rigsby

Jeffrey James Croxall

Brian Lee Burski

Jason W Morris

Matthew Alexander Chamot

Emily Ann Chesnut

Clamping devices and associated methods that are useful to develop both axial and circumferential clamping forces in response to a common axial clamping force. The clamp is able to use a simple mechanism to generate both kinds of clamping forces from a single, axial actuating force. The clamping devices of the present invention are particularly useful for clamping cover and base deck components of a hard disk drive enclosure together to allow the components to be joined and sealed together using welding techniques.

Clamping device that develops both axial and circumferential clamping forces in response to a common axial clamping force

Described are enclosures that include a friction stir weld, including electronic device enclosures, and precursors thereof, that contain a base and a cover that in an assembled condition form a joint at which a friction stir weld can be produced, as well as methods for producing a friction stir weld at a joint of such an assembly.

Enclosures, devices with a friction stir weld, precursors thereof, and related methods

Friction stir welding tool and related methods

Described are deburring tools useful for deburring a friction stir weld, methods of forming a friction stir weld combined with a deburring step, and assemblies such as electronic device enclosures that include a deburred friction stir weld.

Deburring tool for friction stir welding, and related methods

Described are devices and assemblies (e.g., precursors to a devices) that include a friction stir weld or a joint useful for forming a friction stir weld, the devices containing two metal components that form the joint at which the friction stir weld can be produced, as well as methods for producing a devices, assembly, joints, or friction stir weld as described.

Assemblies and devices with a metal base, a metal cover, and a friction stir weld, precursors thereof, and related friction stir welding methods

Described are tools useful to produce a friction stir weld, methods of forming a friction stir weld, and assemblies such as electronic devices that include a friction stir weld.

Friction stir welding tool, related methods, and assemblies formed to include friction stir weld

A base deck of a hard drive and methods for making a base deck is disclosed. The base deck includes a plurality of multi-pronged snaps integrally formed with the base deck. Each prong of the plurality of multi-pronged snaps includes a rounded distal portion.

Printed circuit board snap-in mounting

Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus including a base deck forming a sealed cavity. A filter coupled to a surface of the base deck within the cavity filters particulate from a flow of gas in the cavity. The recirculation filter including a protrusion extending over a surface of a storage medium within the cavity that diverts gas from a surface of the storage medium toward the filter. A bypass channel, defined by a portion of the cavity and a portion of the filter, in conjunction with the protrusion forms a pressure differential that draws a first portion of the diverted gas through the filter by bypassing the filter with a second portion of the diverted gas.

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Jeffrey Leonard Bruce