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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Applicant:
John Robert Edwards, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
John Robert Edwards, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is a dampening device for a flex circuit of a disk drive. The dampening device engages the flex circuit to alter is vibrational effect generated by the moment of the flex circuit that adversely affects post seek oscillations performance of the drive. The dampening device lowers the first resonant frequency of the flex circuit and reduces the magnitude of the post seek off track oscillations.