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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
May. 16, 2001
Shunji Noda, Tokyo, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic disk drive unit can is designed for reducing weight, improving impact resistance, improving removing ability, and achieving easiness of assembling and lower a cost in a magnetic disk drive unit. The magnetic disk drive unit includes a spindle motor mounting a magnetic disk, a carriage mounting a magnetic head for recording and reproduction, a park mechanism for placing the magnetic head retracted from the magnetic disk at stand-by state where recording and reproducing are not performed, a single rigid frame mounting the spindle motor, the carriage and the park mechanism thereon for forming an assembly, and a casing housing and fixing the assembly, the casing being formed of an elastically deformable material.