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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Satya P. Arya, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzong-Shii Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/56 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/56 ;
Abstract
A microactuator device for effecting fine positioning of a transducing head with respect to a selected track on a disk, wherein the piezoelectric microactuator element is positioned adjacent to one side of and substantially coextensive with a slider, the slider being attached to the moving end of a flexure, and the two ends of the microactuator element are attached to the moving end and fixed legs of the flexure and provide rotary motion.