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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
May. 31, 2001
Jin Hui Ou-Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Serge Hauert, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Gustafson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chiao-Ping Ku, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary C. Griffin, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Aaron D. Little, Campbell, CA (US);
Sudha Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive including a disk drive base. The disk drive further includes at least one rotatable disk which includes a disk surface extending to an outer disk edge. The disk drive further includes a head stack assembly rotatably attached to the disk drive base in operable communication with the disk. The disk drive further includes an airflow suppressor comb coupled to the disk drive base and stationary relative to the disk drive base during operation of the disk drive. The comb includes a comb body disposed adjacent to the outer disk edge, and at least one tine extending from the comb body along the disk surface for mitigating disk rotation induced airflow upon the head stack assembly adjacent to the disk surface.