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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
May. 08, 2002
Seong Woo Kang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Seong Hoon Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gregory Tran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vincent Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Tam, San Jose, CA (US);
Nikollay Ivanov, Campbell, CA (US);
Joe Bragg, San Jose, CA (US);
Seong Woo Kang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Seong Hoon Kim, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gregory Tran, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vincent Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Tam, San Jose, CA (US);
Nikollay Ivanov, Campbell, CA (US);
Joe Bragg, San Jose, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
Aerodynamic forces contribute to disk and actuator vibration leading to track positioning errors in storage devices such as hard disk drives. The invention provides a variety of dampening mechanisms and a method of dampening to alleviate these problems.