Iomega Corporation

Lee Schultz

Richard C Watson

Alexander Muller

Dennis Duane Ogden

Walter E Broom

Mark A Swenson

A disk drive has a frame for receiving and retaining a disk cartridge which includes a disk therein, such disk being rotatable about a first axis perpendicular to the frame and cartridge. An actuator is mounted to the frame and is movable a first lesser amount from a first position to a second position and a second greater amount from the first position to a third position. A retract/eject lever is also mounted to the frame, is rotatable on an axis parallel to the first axis by the actuator, and is biased to a resting position. The actuator upon being moved to the second position rotates the retract/eject lever into a head-retracting position. The actuator upon being moved to the third position rotates the retract/eject lever to the head-retracting position and then to a cartridge-ejecting position. A head assembly is mounted to the frame and is movable toward and away from the retained disk cartridge and the disk therein for reading data from/writing data to such disk. A head retracting assembly is mounted to the frame for retracting the head assembly away from the retained disk cartridge when the retract/eject lever is rotated to the second position. A cartridge transport assembly is mounted to the frame for ejecting the retained cartridge when the retract/eject lever is rotated to the third position.

Head retract assembly for disk drive

Translucent storage device enclosure

Commonly actuated head retract assembly and cartridge transport assembly for disk drive

Storage device enclosure

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Arvada, CO, United States of America

Lee Schultz