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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2005
Fu-ying Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vedantham Raman, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Qinghua Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);
Fu-Ying Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vedantham Raman, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Qinghua Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for damping slider-gimbal coupled vibration of a hard disk drive is disclosed. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A slider having a read/write head element on a trailing edge (TE) portion is also provided, the slider coupled with the suspension at a gimbal structure. In addition, a damping zone is provided at a stress point on the gimbal structure, the damping zone having a damping material thereon, wherein the damping material reduces vibration of the slider and the gimbal structure.