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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. 30, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
James L Fortin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Areal Technology, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29742 ; 29603 ; 29761 ;
Abstract
Tooling for assembling a compact disk drive useful for laptop computers includes a ball swaging fixture for joining head flexures to a head arm/actuator subassembly; and a motor/disk platform and disk clamping means for joining a drive motor to magnetic disks. The ball swaging fixture comprises a ball staking fixture for securing the flexures to the head arm/actuator subassembly. The disk clamping means includes a torque gage for assembling a clamp to the drive motor and motor hub. The tooling allows assembly of a compact disk drive at a single station by a single operator.