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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2002
George J. Bennett, Murrieta, CA (US);
Charles R. Patton, Iii, Murrieta, CA (US);
George J. Bennett, Murrieta, CA (US);
Charles R. Patton, III, Murrieta, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A split actuator comprising two spring coupled actuators that share a common pivot bearing. The two reduced inertia actuators permit overlapping motions during a seek operation thereby reducing dead times in transfer of data between disk and transducers disposed on the actuators. A spring member that spring couples the two actuators boosts relative motions by storing and releasing spring potential energy selectively. The spring member is also configured so as to substantially restrict the relative motions of the two actuators to rotational motions about a common axis of the common pivot bearing. Rigidity of the spring member to non-rotational relative motions, as well as tuning of the spring member to provide a rigid response to selected frequencies, the spring member in conjunction with the common pivot bearing result in mechanical disturbance being substantially common to the two actuators, thereby allowing predictable and manageable disturbance corrections.