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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2001
Daniel L. Tuma, St. Paul, MN (US);
Donaldson Company, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
The filter construction includes a first portion that removes or reduces contaminants entering a disk drive enclosure from the external atmosphere and a second portion that removes or reduces contaminants present within the disk drive enclosure. Air exits the first portion in an area of the disk drive enclosure having a low air pressure. The second portion has an adsorbent filter, such as a recirculation filter, which allows air or gas to flow therethrough with little resistance. The filter construction has an exit positioned approximately parallel to the periphery of a disk in the disk drive enclosure, so that air exiting the filter construction is generally perpendicular to the air currents produced by the spinning disk.