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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
May. 15, 1995
Steven Louis Kaczeus, San Jose, CA (US);
William Nicholas Thanos, San Jose, CA (US);
James Drury Fahey, San Jose, CA (US);
TEAC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
DZU Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive system provides a low height device by mounting a circuit board or boards containing the electronic circuitry in the same enclosure with the head-disk assembly (HDA). The drive actuator mechanism is positioned at one side of one end of the enclosure and the circuit board or boards are positioned at the other side of that end of the enclosure. A gasket seals the HDA from contaminants, while the enclosure protects the electronic circuitry and cables from physical damage, electrostatic charges and electromagnetic interference. The circuit board or boards can be removed from the enclosure without removing the entire disk drive from the using system, and the entire drive assembly can readily be removed from the using system for replacement or use in another system.