Seagate Technology Incorporated

Magnetic Peripherals Inc.

Loren D Skarky

Steven S Eckerd

Mark S Maggio

Tom Metzner

Yoshiki Midori

Cal Hardie

John D Stricklin

Roy Lynn Wood

David S Allsup

Alvin E Cox

Ray-Chung Yu

Ray Yu

A transducer signal terminator for providing electrical connections between a plurality of read/write transducer lead wires and a preamplifier includes a substrate having a plurality of layers and has a plurality of intermediate strips. A plurality of head pads are located on the substrate to provide interconnection points. The intermediate strips have a plurality of electrically conductive pads with a hole therein, and each lead wire is electrically attached to a pad on the intermediate strip. Each intermediate strip is placed on the substrate such that each of the holes in the electrically conductive pads is aligned with one of the head pads on the substrate. An electrical connection is then formed between each head pad and a corresponding conductive pad of the intermediate strip.

Transducer signal wire termination

Method of electrically connecting a transducer to a preamplifier

A disc assembly for a disc drive has a balancing clip mounted on a shoulder formed on other portions of the assembly to balance the disc assembly. The disc assembly includes a cylindrical hub on which data storage discs, interspersed with ring shaped spacers, are mounted and the discs and rings are clamped into place on the hub between a flange formed on one end of the hub and a clamp ring that is secured about the other end of the hub by heat shrinking the clamp ring onto the hub. A circular shoulder is formed coaxially with the hub on a face that is, in turn, formed perpendicularly to the hub axis on either the clamp ring or the end of the hub adjacent the clamp ring. The balancing clip is a C-shaped lamella having a circularly arcuate inner periphery for mating with the shoulder. The outer periphery of the balancing clip is elliptically arcuate and is bilaterally symmetric with respect to the major axis of the ellipse to which the outer edge conforms. The shoulder is undercut to conform to a conical surface opening away from the face on which the shoulder is formed and portions of the inner periphery of the balancing clip are chamfered to conform to conical surfaces opening toward the sides of balancing clip at the cone angle of the shoulder.

Balancing system for a disc drive disc assembly

A transducer signal terminator for providing electrical connections between a plurality of read/write transducer lead wires and a preamplifier includes a substrate having a plurality of layers and has a plurality of intermediate strips attached to the substrate. A plurality of head pads are located on the substrate to provide interconnection points between the lead wires and the substrate. Each intermediate strip is placed on the substrate such that each of a plurality of holes therein is aligned with one of the head pads on the substrate. An electrical connection is then formed between each head pad and a corresponding conductive pad of the intermediate strip.

Transducer signal terminator

A slide lock mechanism for restraining movement of the carriage of a disk drive comprises a rod slideably supported by the disk drive housing for movement between two rest positions. A lock pin, fastened to a shaft engaging the rod, is moveable between a lock and unlock position to bias a pin, fastened to the carriage, against a stop when the rod is in one of its rest positions. An over-center spring, fastened to the housing and rod biases the rod to its two rest positions.

Slide lock mechanism for disk drives

A disk memory drive mechanism for accepting a disk memory module from a front-located port and conveying it to a seated position on the spindle, and for detaching it from the spindle and conveying it back to the loading port for removal. The module-conveying mechanism is activated by opening and closing the door for the loading port which seals it from the ambient air.

Disc memory drive with improved cartridge handling

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Bethany, OK, United States of America

Loren D Skarky