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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:
Feb. 03, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jona Zumeris, Nesher, IL;
Assignee:
Nanomotion Ltd., Haifa, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H02N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310328 ; 310331 ;
Abstract
A disc drive including a piezoelectric plate having two long and two short edges and a spacer attached to one of the long edges and at least one arm pivotable about an axis, the arm having first and second ends spaced from the axis and on opposite sides thereof, a read/write head attached to the first end of the arm and a rigid element on the second end of the arm, wherein the spacer of the piezoelectric plate is resiliently urged against the rigid element. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the piezoelectric plate is stationary. In another preferred embodiment of the invention, the piezoelectric plate is movable with respect to the axis.