Iomega Corporation

Tolan Brown

Ronald F Hales

Brian R Schick

Shawn Ray Isaacson

James Eggebeen

Don Beuch

Robert Allen Bruce

An apparatus and system for improving the contact between the heads of a disk drive and the storage media of the disk by improving disk stability. The apparatus comprises a disk having a disk stability pattern disposed proximate a center region of the disk. The disk stability pattern improves disk stability by reducing vibration modes in the spinning disk, thereby minimizing the formation of standing waves in the spinning disk media, and by improving disk compliance, thereby minimizing disk anisotropic curl and tilt.

Apparatus and system for stabilizing a disk media surface for engagement

A disk cartridge has a hub with an inner ring that engages an annular groove in a drive motor. The hub can be constructed of either one piece or two pieces of joined sheet metal. In either embodiment, the hub has an outer peripheral edge that has an angled surface. The hub can be attached to the medium via adhesive or mechanically by way of a retainer.

Two-piece media hub and methods of attaching same to a medium

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Roy, UT, United States of America

Tolan Brown