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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1995
William M. Dunbar, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Leonard R. Swanson, Woodbury, MN (US);
Wayne L. Skelcher, Maplewood, MN (US);
Peter Van Laanen, Boulder, CO (US);
Imation Corp., Oakdale, MN (US);
Abstract
A data storage diskette incorporates a hub having a reduced diameter. A circular sheet of magnetic media is mounted about the hub. The reduced diameter imparts added flexibility to inner regions of the sheet of magnetic media between the bond point of the sheet and a point at which magnetic heads access the sheet for data read and write operations. The added flexibility enables the sheet of magnetic media to more readily be bent to align with a gap defined by the magnetic heads. The enhanced alignment enables a read/write axis of the magnetic heads to be perpendicularly aligned with the sheet of magnetic media in the inner regions, thereby maintaining signal amplitude in such regions.