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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian S Zak, Bloomington, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360104 ; 360103 ;
Abstract
A load arm assembly for a disk drive including a load beam, a head for communicating with a recording medium, and a gimbal spring interconnecting the head and the load beam. The interconnection includes a pivot having a first contact surface in point contact with a second contact surface. In accordance with the present invention, a coating is applied to at least one of the first and second contact surfaces and has a low frictional coefficient for reducing the friction between the first and second contact surfaces.