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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2007
Andrew S. Klassen, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew S. Klassen, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
A manufacturing assembly is disclosed for manufacturing a disk drive. The manufacturing assembly comprises a pre-merge arm having a contact surface for contacting an actuator arm of the disk drive, and an actuator operable to actuate the pre-merge arm. When installing the actuator arm into the base of the disk drive, the actuator is operable to actuate the pre-merge arm in a first direction so that the contact surface biases the actuator arm rotationally about a pivot to bias the lift tab away from the ramp. After installing the actuator arm into the base of the disk drive, the actuator is operable to actuate the pre-merge arm in a second direction opposite the first direction so that the lift tab moves towards and contacts a ramp near an outer periphery of a disk.