Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Hgst Netherlands, B.v.

Nippon Mektron Limited

Takeji Sumiya

Hiroyasu Tsuchida

Hitoshi Tsujino

Tomoki Hiramatsu

Teruhiro Nakamiya

Keiko Watanabe

Haruhide Takahashi

Hirokazu Tanizawa

Takahisa Okada

Yoshinobu Noguchi

Toshihiko Shimizu

Takao Suzuki

Takashi Tomita

Jian Chen

Mutsuro Ohta

Hiroki Kitahori

Kenji Tomida

Kohji Takahashi

Kazuhide Ichikawa

Jiro Kaneko

Kohji Serizawa

Naoaki Kanada

Takuma Muraki

Naoshi Mizumoto

Nobuyuki Oka

Shin Nagahiro

Shota Seki

Hitoshi Tamura

Naoki Hirayama

Gantaro Nakamura

Noritaka Ootake

Shuichi Kiyomoto

Michiya Totoki

A sorbent breather filter for an electronic device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) is configured with a first chamber for housing a first sorbent and environmentally coupled with an external environment via at least a first orifice and a second orifice, a corresponding replaceable first sorbent such as zeolite or silica gel beads in the first chamber, a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber for housing a second sorbent, and a corresponding second sorbent such as carbon beads in the second chamber. The first orifice is a through-hole such that the first sorbent can be loaded into the first chamber therethrough, and the second orifice is a slitted or grated hole such that the first sorbent cannot move from the first chamber to the external environment through the second orifice while loading sorbent into the first chamber through an HDD first cover breather hole.

Hard disk drive breather filter enabling sorbent replacement

A hard disk drive comprises a carriage assembly that comprises a carriage-arm tip with a swaging hole centered about a swaging axis. A first head-gimbal assembly comprises a tension baseplate on a first side of the carriage-arm tip with a tension swage boss located within the swaging hole. A second head-gimbal assembly comprises a compression baseplate on a second side of the carriage-arm tip with a compression swage boss located with the swaging hole. The tension swage boss comprises an uppercut that extends radially outward, away from the swaging axis, from a first backbore diameter to a second backbore diameter and a tension-boss undercut that extends radially outward, away from the swaging axis, from a tension-boss outer diameter to a first undercut diameter. The compression swage boss comprises a compression-boss undercut that extends radially outward, away from the swaging axis, from a compression-boss outer diameter to a second undercut diameter.

Carriage assembly with asymmetrical swage bosses and associated methods

Described herein is a hard disk drive that includes a base and a cover. The base includes a closed end, sidewalls, an open end, and one or more corner portions. The sidewalls extend from the closed end, and the open end is defined by the sidewalls. The closed end, sidewalls, and open end define an interior cavity of the hard disk drive. Each corner portion is proximate a respective intersection of the sidewalls and positioned exteriorly of the interior cavity. The cover is welded to the sidewalls over the open end by a weld bead such that the weld bead is positioned between the interior cavity and the corner portions. The weld bead hermetically seals the cover to the base. Furthermore, at least one of the corner portions is at least substantially flush with the cover.

Base for protecting external welds of hermetically sealed electronic devices

An example hard disk drive (HDD) comprising a magnetic disk and a ramp within the HDD is disclosed. A slit is disposed between a ramp body and a flange.

Flexible ramp in a hard disk drive

A magnetic disk device including a disk, a spindle motor, a base for supporting the spindle motor and the disk, a slider includes a head element. The device also includes an actuator including arms for supporting the slider and a coil of a voice coil motor for rotating the arms, wherein a first natural bending frequency of the coil is less than a first natural bending frequency of the arms.

Magnetic disk device

For cushioning a shock to prevent problems such as a reading error, a ramp for a magnetic disc apparatus is made of a resin material for forming a ramp main body and a material having higher rigidity than the resin material, disc facing surfaces in the disc insertion portion for inserting a magnetic disc is provided with disc contact portions made of the high rigidity material, a bottom surface portion of a concave portion of the disc insertion portion is constructed by a combination of a bottom surface portion made of the resin material and a bottom surface portion made of the high rigidity material, and a step structure is provided by arranging the bottom surface portion made of the high rigidity material at a position moved rearward in a depth direction of the concave portion in comparison with the bottom surface portion made of the resin material.

Cushioning ramp having a stepped structure for a magnetic disc apparatus

Embodiments of the present invention provide a suspension assembly having a dielectric limiter. According to one embodiment, the suspension assembly includes a load beam and a flexure assembly. The flexure assembly includes a metal layer where there are formed a fixing portion fixed to the load beam, main rings, and extending from the fixing portion, sub-rings, and a flexure tongue having moving-side limiter coupling portions defined thereon. Fixing-side limiter coupling portions are defined at the main rings. Dielectric limiters each have a gross length larger than a between-coupling-portions distance between a fixing-side limiter coupling portion and a moving-side limiter coupling portion, and couple the fixing-side limiter coupling portion to the moving-side limiter coupling portion.

Suspension assembly including a limiter having a gross length larger than a between-coupling-portions distance between coupling portions

Embodiments of the present invention securely latch an actuator rotated by an external impact. In an embodiment of the present invention, a latch and an actuator have a structure in which the latch can latch the actuator at two different swing angles. The swing angle of the latch is an angle in rotation centered on a rotational shaft (rotation angle). The latch may be engaged with the actuator at a shallow angle, or the latch may be engaged with the actuator at a deeper angle. Since the latch is able to latch the actuator at different swing angles, the actuator can be securely latched.

Disk drive device and magnetic disk drive

Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive suppressing a surface deformation of a top cover. In one embodiment, the disk drive includes a base and a top cover. The base accommodates a head assembly, a circuit unit, and a recording medium. The top cover is supported by the base at a plurality of inner points of support and peripheral edge points of support on a peripheral edge portion near a portion accommodating the head assembly and the circuit unit. The top cover covers the accommodating portion of the base. A vibration suppression member for suppressing vibration of the top cover is disposed in a polygon. The polygon has, as vertices, a plurality of inner points of support and, among the peripheral edge points of support, the peripheral edge points of support near the portion accommodating the head assembly and the circuit unit. The vibration suppression member is disposed at a position in the polygonal portion corresponding to an area near a loop of vibration in a surface of the top cover.

Disk drive with vibration suppression member disposed near head assembly

A carriage assembly capable of suppressing flutter of actuator arms and magnetic disk is to be provided. In one embodiment, the carriage assembly comprises a first actuator arm having a windward side face, a leeward side face, an outer surface and an inner surface, and a second actuator arm having a windward side face, a leeward side face, a first inner surface opposed to the inner surface of the first actuator arm and a second inner surface positioned on the side opposite to the first inner surface. The first actuator arm is formed with a slant face extending from the windward side face toward the inner surface and the second actuator arm is formed with a slant face extending from the windward side face toward the first inner surface and a slant face extending from the windward side face toward the second inner surface.

Arm chamfer for comb type actuator in rotating disk storage device and carriage assembly

Embodiments of the invention provide, in a compact magnetic disk drive, a stable structure capable of reducing self-oscillation occurring from disk spinning, while suppressing generation of dust and dirt. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk is mounted on a hub of a spindle motor. A clamp is further attached to secure the magnetic disk in position. A plurality of opening portions are formed in the clamp around an axis. A counterweight formed of an elastic material is mounted in the opening portion by being press-fitted therein. The counterweight is less likely to generate dust and dirt through friction during insertion and looseness. A gap is provided between the clamp and the hub at locations near the opening portions. The counterweight has a protruded portion on a side surface of a circular column portion. The protruded portion slides into the gap between the clamp and the hub, counteracting a tendency of the counterweight to drop out of position.

Magnetic disk drive with adjustment of rotational balance

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takeji Sumiya