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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:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Aaron MacPherson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360105 ;
Abstract
A passive non-contact magnetic latch for latching read/write heads of a disk drive over a landing area of the disk is disclosed. The magnet latch forms a magnetic circuit for capturing a latch tab within an air gap. Magnetic flux lines traverse the latch tab in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of movement of the latch tab.