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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:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Havant International Limited, Hampshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/308 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/308 ;
Abstract
A vibration damping system is provided for damping vibrations in an apparatus (,). The damping system is particularly useful in a servowriter (,). The damping system has resilient means (,) for supporting at least the majority of the weight of the apparatus (,). The resilient means (,) has a first spring rate. The damping system has damping means (,) for damping vibrations of the apparatus (,). The damping means (,) has an effective second spring rate. The ratio of the first spring rate to the effective second spring rate is r:1 where r<1.