Fujitsu Corporation

Tomoo Sukagawa

Katsuaki Ishida

Yoshiaki Nagasawa

Masaharu Sugimoto

Keiji Aruga

Osamu Yamazaki

Hisashi Kaneko

Tsuneyori Ino

Tsuyoshi Furukawa

Yukihiro Komura

Yasukiyo Kunimatsu

Masateru Sasaki

Hirataka Ukai

Shinichi Fukuzawa

Toshitaka Iwamoto

Masaki Jinbo

Shigeru Juman

Tatsutoshi Nagasaki

Hidenori Saitou

Masao Uchiyama

Mitsuhisa Sekino

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Susumu Yoshida

Tatsuro Sasamoto

Mitsuhiro Izumi

Koichi Aikawa

Akihide Jinzenji

Takuma Kido

Yoshiaki Koizumi

Takeshi Ohyama

Yasuyoshi Asao

Vibrations in a magnetic head assembly equipped with a magnetic head, caused by the effects of the flow of air arising from the high-speed rotation of a magnetic disk, can be suppressed by affixing a damping material to the magnetic head assembly. As a result, accurate positioning is possible with high reliability, the frequency of occurrence of errors during data recording and playback can be suppressed, high data transfer rates can be maintained, and high recording densities for a magnetic disk device can be realized.

Magnetic head assembly

A miniaturized optical disc memory is receivable in a slot, of about 17 mm height, normally accommodating a floppy disc drive. A base includes a base plate with integral, peripheral sidewalls and an internal lateral partition wall which define a cartridge receiving slot on the upper surface of the base plate. First and second support plates extend from the partition wall to the rear peripheral sidewall of the base and define respective, first and second upper mounting surfaces and lower first and second cavities respectively receiving an ejection motor and a fixed optical system, individual optical components being mounted and aligned on integral, precision machined blocks in the second cavity for transmitting a laser beam and receiving a reflected beam along a central, longitudinal optical axis beneath the base plate. A first base plate aperture accommodates a lens carriage driven in reciprocating motion along the axis for receiving and redirecting the laser beam vertically for scanning an optical disc and receiving a reflected beam and redirecting same to the fixed optical system. The movable optical system is locked in a rest position and is released by insertion of a cartridge to permit scanning movement thereof. A disc drive unit is mounted beneath the base plate for reciprocating vertical movement through a second aperture therein to a raised position for engaging and driving, in rotation, an optical disc of a cartridge inserted into the apparatus and to a lowered position for releasing the cartridge and permitting ejection thereof.

Optical memory apparatus having a base with a unitary and integral optical component mounting portion and a precision mounting surface for mounting an optical component

A magnetic disk unit has two actuators each rotating on a common rotary shaft. The two actuators are driven by a voice coil motor. The voice coil motor comprises: a magnetic circuit comprising a magnet provided for the two actuators on a common basis and two yokes, which are associated with the two actuators, respectively, said two yokes being disposed at both sides between which the magnet intervenes; and two coils provided for the two actuators, respectively.

Storage device

A miniaturized optical disc memory is receivable in a slot, of about 17 mm height, normally accommodating a floppy disc drive. A base includes a base plate with integral, peripheral sidewalls and an internal lateral partition wall which define a cartridge receiving slot on the upper surface of the base plate. First and second support plates extend from the partition wall to the rear peripheral sidewall of the base and define respective, first and second upper mounting surfaces and lower first and second cavities respectively receiving an ejection motor and a fixed optical system, individual optical components being mounted and aligned on integral, precision machined blocks in the second cavity for transmitting a laser beam and receiving a reflected beam along a central, longitudinal optical axis beneath the bass plate. A first base plate aperture accommodates a lens carriage driven in reciprocating motion along the axis for receiving and redirecting the laser beam vertically for scanning an optical disc and receiving a reflected beam and redirecting same to the fixed optical system. The movable optical system is locked in a rest position and is released by insertion of a cartridge to permit scanning movement thereof. A disc drive unit is mounted beneath the base plate for reciprocating vertical movement through a second aperture therein to a raised position for engaging and driving, in rotation, an optical disc of a cartridge inserted into the apparatus and to a lowered position for releasing the cartridge and permitting ejection thereof.

Optical memory apparatus having planar printed circuit board mounted therein

Optical memory apparatus having turn table unit mounted by a plate having an integral guide portion to a supporting base

A disk drive includes a casing for enclosing at least a disk and a head. Rectification walls are disposed at corners of the casing. The walls serve to rectify an air stream generated by rotation of the disk at the periphery of the rotating disk. A bypass is defined between the side wall of the casing and at least one rectification wall. A filter is disposed in the bypass for catching dust in the air stream. A parameter d/L, where d is the width of an entrance of the bypass and L is the length of the comer along the periphery of the disk, is determined so that vibration of the rotating disk is equal to or less than an admissible value estimated from a tracking error margin. The tracking error margin is estimated from a track pitch on the disk. Reliable positioning of the head with respect to the disk can be achieved with the present invention.

Disk drive with rectification wall for circulation filter and filter

A magnetic circuit for a voice coil motor of flat-coil type used with a magnetic device is disclosed. The magnetic circuit is intended to flatten the torque constant curve for swinging the rotor of the voice coil motor while at the same time preventing the torque constant from decreasing. For this purpose, the magnetic circuit comprises an upper yoke and a lower yoke opposed to a flat coil arranged on the rotor, a pair of side yokes for coupling the upper and lower yokes to each other at the ends thereof, and a magnet arranged on the lower yoke. The magnet is shaped arcuate so that the width in the neighborhood of each end thereof in the direction of motion of the flat coil is larger than a standard width and smaller than the standard width in the portions of the magnet between each end and the central portion thereof.

Magnetic circuit for voice coil motor of flat-coil type

A disk drive includes a disk drive housing and a frame that supports the disk drive housing, wherein a thermally conductive elastic member is interposed between the disk drive housing and the frame for conducting heat in the disk drive housing to the frame and for isolating vibration.

Frame structure of a disk drive for improved heat dissipation and a disk

A magnetic disk drive having one or more magnetic disks, one or more read/write heads each recording or reproducing information for a corresponding one of the magnetic disks, a servo head reading control information from a predetermined one of the magnetic disks, and an actuator supporting the one or more read/write heads and the servo head includes first leads extending from the one or more read/write heads along one side of the actuator, and second leads extending from the servo head along the other side of the actuator so that the second leads can be distanced in space from the first leads.

Magnetic disk drive and flexible printed board used in such drive

A breather filter unit for a magnetic disk drive including a base and a cover fixed to the base, the cover having a vent. The breather filter unit includes a casing fixed to an inner surface of the cover, the casing having a vent inlet communicating with the vent of the cover and a vent outlet communicating with an inside of the magnetic disk drive, and a first filter contained in the casing at a position adjacent to the vent inlet, the first filter being formed from a plurality of fibers extending in a direction substantially parallel to that of an air flow from the vent inlet to the vent outlet. The breather filter unit further includes a second filter bonded to the casing so as to cover the vent outlet, and an activated carbon layer contained in the casing at a position between the first filter and the second filter.

Breather filter unit for magnetic disk drive

A head actuator for a magnetic disk drive unit which eliminates the possibility of track slip due to a mechanical external force and allows high-speed access. The head actuator includes a carriage having a body provided rotatably to a shaft fixed to a housing and an arm fixed to the body so as to extend substantially perpendicularly to the shaft, a supporting member mounted on the body on its side opposite to the arm with respect to the shaft, and a coil fixed to the supporting member and receiving a driving force from a static magnetic field. The supporting member is formed of a material having a specific gravity larger than that of a material forming the body of the carriage.

Head actuator for magnetic disk drive unit

A magnetic disk device includes a flexible printed circuit board having a first portion provided with read/write ICs for read/write heads and first printed patterns connected to the read/write ICs and a second portion positioned within the first portion, an end of the second portion being connected to the first portion so as to be bendably projected from the first portion, the second portion being provided with a servo IC for the servo head and second printed patterns connected to the servo IC, the flexible printed circuit board being mounted on an actuator body such that one end of the first portion lies outside the actuator and the second portion lies on the actuator body. The magnetic disk device also includes first lead wires of the read/write heads extending to the flexible printed circuit board and being connected to the first patterns, and second lead wires of the servo head extending to the flexible printed circuit board and being connected to the second printed patterns. The first lead wires and the read/write ICs are on one side of an imaginary plane while the second wires and the servo IC are on an opposite side of the imaginary plane, the imaginary plane passing through the tip end of an arm structure and a shaft of the actuator body and being parallel to the shaft.

Magnetic disk drive and flexible printed circuit board

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Higashine, Japan

Tomoo Sukagawa