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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
John E. Scura, Paso Robles, CA (US);
Richard G. Krum, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Capital Corporation, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/314 ;
Abstract
A disk drive including a disk drive base. The disk drive further includes at least one rotatable disk including 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 a filter coupled to the disk drive base. The filter includes a filter support disposed adjacent to the outer disk edge, and at least one filter element attached to the filter support disposed along the disk surface for filtering disk rotation induced airflow.