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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2006
Andrew J. Gleason, Longmont, CO (US);
James A. Dunckley, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert J. Miles, Longmont, CO (US);
Andrew J. Gleason, Longmont, CO (US);
James A. Dunckley, Boulder, CO (US);
Robert J. Miles, Longmont, CO (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive () is disclosed that uses an integral load/unload ramp () with one or more integrated air features. In one embodiment, the load/unload ramp () includes a body (), a plurality of head load/unload sections () for head parking operations, a plurality of air dams () for affecting the airflow on at least part of the primary data storage surfaces of the data storage disks () used by the disk drive (), and a plurality of disk extenders () for affecting the airflow at the perimeter () of the various data storage disks (). There is no joint of any kind between the body () and any of the head load/unload sections (), between the body () and any of the air dams (), or between the body () and any of the disk extenders ().