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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2007
Jin Hui Ou-yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael G. Choy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jen-tai Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chiao-ping Ku, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary C. Griffin, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Jin Hui Ou-Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael G. Choy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jen-Tai Lin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chiao-Ping Ku, Fremont, CA (US);
Lin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary C. Griffin, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
There is provided a disk drive including a disk drive base, a disk rotatably coupled to the disk drive base, and a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base and configured to support the disk for rotating the disk with respect to the disk drive base. The disk drive further includes a filter component. The filter component includes a filter housing coupled to the disk drive base, and a pair of filter elements disposed within the filter housing for filtering disk rotation induced airflow. Each filter element includes a coarse section and a fine section, wherein the coarse section is positioned upstream of the fine section relative to a direction of the induced airflow.