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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1998
Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk table in a magnetic disk drive is disclosed. The disk table comprises a disk table body having an opening, a chucking arm made of an elastic body, where one end of the chucking arm is fixed on a lower face of the disk table body and the other end of the chucking arm is set free, a chucking roller disposed on the other fee end of the chucking arm, where the chucking roller is protruded from an upper face of the disk table through the opening, and a stopper provided on the lower face of the disk table in the vicinity of the free end of the chucking arm, wherein the chucking arm is freely floatable in vertical direction, and the amount of separation of the free end of the chucking arm from the lower face of the disk table body is restricted by stopper when the chucking roller is urged downwards. The restricted amount of displacement of the free end of the chucking arm is set such that the chucking arm would not deform plastically, or such that the chucking roller would not slip off or remove from said opening of the disk table body.