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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:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toru Sawada, Fukushima-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/016 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/016 ;
Abstract
A disk drive comprising an upper head holder with has an arm portion extending laterally and placed on an upper plate, a carriage has a carriage lock for stopping longitudinal movements of the carriage, a lift bar is inserted between the arm portion of the upper head holder and the upper plate and is movable between upper, middle and lower stages, a brake portion of a stopper lever comes into engagement with the carriage lock of the carriage to stop longitudinal movements of the carriage, a lower plate lock means locks a backward movement of a lower plate, and a solenoid is interlocked with and actuates the lift bar, the stop lever and the lower plate lock means.