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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Peter Hahn, Fremont, CA (US);
Arthur Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Shin John Choi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rodney Ngai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
A mounting assembly for securing a disk drive to a frame of a computer is provided herein. The mounting assembly includes three rigid mounts and a single flexible mount. Each rigid mount rigidly secures the drive housing to the frame and prevents degradation of performance of the disk drive. The flexible mount diminishes the level of vibration transferred from the frame to drive housing. Further, the flexible mount facilitates flexing of the drive housing intermediate the flexible mount and the rigid mounts. This reduces the effects of a shock pulse to the disk drive and inhibits head slap between a transducer head and a storage disk.