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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2000
Toshiaki Abe, Ome, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, , JP;
Abstract
A disk drive is disclosed which has a head loading/unloading mechanism which, at load time, moves a head from a head parking member over a disk (loading) and, at unload time, moves it back to the head parking member (unloading). The head parking member has an unload surface on which an unloading tab slides on as an actuator moves which has the head mounted on it and a parking area which is formed to be continuous with the unload surface and provides a place where the unloading tab comes to rest. Further, the head parking member has a limiting member formed to cover the parking area and a portion of the unload surface continuous with the parking area for restricting the movement of the unloading tab in the vertical direction with respect to the unload surface.
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