Seagate Technology Incorporated

Muhammad A Hawwa

Khosrow Mohajerani

Joseph M Sampietro

Jeffrey G Barina

Anoush M Fard

LeRoy A Volz

Tien Q Le

Daniel R Vigil

Richard G Krum

A system for loading a transducing head ( ) to a flying elevation proximate a rotating surface of a disc ( ) is disclosed. The system includes a piezoelectric device ( ) that is selectively expanded and contracted to control a height of the head ( ) on a flexure spring ( ) from the surface of the disc ( ). The system preferably includes control circuitry ( ) for generating electrical control signals to manage the expansion and contraction of the piezoelectric device ( ) according to operating characteristics of the disc ( ).

Piezoelectric head loading and unloading device for rigid disc drives

A system for positioning a transducing head in a disc drive device over a selected track of a rotatable disc includes an actuator arm which is rotatable about an axis, a head suspension mechanism connected to the actuator arm, and a slider carrying a transducing head and supported by the head suspension mechanism. A low resolution motor moves the actuator arm about the axis to effect coarse movement of the head between tracks of the disc. A piezoelectric element is embedded in the actuator arm to distort the arm to effect fine positioning of the head. Control circuitry distributes electrical signals to the low resolution motor and the piezoelectric element to selectively control movement thereof. The piezoelectric element is embedded in the actuator arm by removing a predetermined amount of material from the actuator arm and bonding the piezoelectric element in the resulting space in the actuator arm.

Method of making an actuator arm integrated piezoelectric microactuator

Noise effects in a disc drive having a disc on a rotating spindle in a housing are reduced by inducing vibrations in the housing of the disc drive that at least partially cancel a characteristic acoustic noise signal of the drive.

Active noise cancellation in disc drives

Bimorph piezoelectric microactuator head and flexure assembly

Actuator arm integrated piezoelectric microactuator

E-block head stack microactuator assembly

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Simi Valley, CA, United States of America

Muhammad A Hawwa