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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Erik Baserman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Charles D Cullom, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Norman Kermit Frater, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brad Vaughn Johnson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
William Harlow McConnell, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360104 ;
Abstract
In a disk drive system transducer suspensions are swaged to the actuator arms. The end actuator arms in the arm stack experience unbalanced forces which detrimentally effect the flying height of the transducers. A compensating swage plate is swaged on the opposite surface of each of the end actuator arms such that these unbalanced forces are canceled and the transducer maintains the proper flying height.