Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Hirano

Tsuyoshi Takahashi

Yosuke Seo

Jun Naruse

Takashi Tamura

Kenji Mori

Masaaki Matsumoto

Hajime Aoi

Kazuo Nakagoshi

Yoshihiro Moribe

Toyoji Okuwaki

Susumu Ebihara

Katsuhiko Kato

Kazuyoshi Nakabayashi

A magnetic disk apparatus includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head which performs information recording and reproducing for the magnetic disk, a load spring for supporting the magnetic head, a head arm for fixing the load spring, a housing for housing these components, a shaft which fixes the head arm, bearings for supporting the shaft rotatably on the housing, and a motor which is coupled to the shaft. The motor comprises a motor cover, a permanent magnet which is divided into a plurality of segments and fixed on the shaft, and a coil which is fixed on the interior surface of the motor cover by being spaced with a certain gap from the permanent magnet. The shaft is included with a counter weight so as to complement the weight of the head arm, load spring and magnetic head. The coil has linear conductor sections parallel to the shaft, with the total number of linear sections being set equal to the total number of segments of permanent magnet.

Magnetic disk apparatus using a rotary actuator for magnetic head

A magnetic head disk apparatus has a housing with one thicknesswise end providing the front side and the other thicknesswise end providing the rear side of the apparatus. The apparatus further has a plurality of head disk assemblies each including at least one combination of a magnetic head and a magnetic disk. The head disk assemblies are arranged in a plurality of rows not only in heightwise and breadthwise directions but also in the thicknesswise direction of the housing. With this arrangement, it is possible to accommodate a multiplicity of head disk assemblies with a high space factor in the housing.

Magnetic disk apparatus having improved arrangement of head disk

In a rotary actuator including a voice coil motor having a coil fitted to the other end portion of a carriage fixed to a rotary shaft and having a load at one of the end portions thereof, the rotary actuator of the present invention is characterized in that the rotation on the coil side and the rotation on the load side with respect to the rotary shaft are balanced. The weight of the coil is adjusted by forming the coil by at least two kinds of coil wires having different specific gravities, and where a plurality of coils are disposed on the outer side of the rotary shaft, the weight of the coil on the load side is made smaller than that of the coil on the opposite side.

Rotary actuator

In a magnetic disk drive apparatus having a plurality of actuators, or a magnetic disk drive system constructed of a plurality of head disk assemblies (HDA's); a magnetic disk drive apparatus or system in which the actuators included in the above apparatus or system can be arbitrarily and selectively coupled with a plurality of access control circuits and high power amplifiers that are smaller in number than the actuators.

Actuator driving apparatus and magnetic disk drive system with a smaller

A magnetic disk apparatus using at least one floating magnetic head which is floated above the surface of a rotating magnetic disk by utilizing dynamic pressure of air caused by the rotation of the magnetic disk, the magnetic disk apparatus comprising, a magnetic head assembly including a magnetic head and a supporting device for supporting the magnetic head to float above the surface of the rotating magnetic disk, the supporting device being provided with a space changing device for changing a space between the magnetic disk surface and the magnetic head, a driver coupled with the space changing device for driving the space changing device, and a controller coupled with the driver for controlling the driving of the space changing device by the driver to change the space between the magnetic head and the magnetic disk surface.

Magnetic disk apparatus

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Yono, Japan

Yoshiyuki Hirano