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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2010
Gregory Joseph Arnone, San Jose, CA (US);
Khaled M. Fawzi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ta-chang Fu, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert C. Reinhart, San Jose, CA (US);
Jr-yi Shen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory Joseph Arnone, San Jose, CA (US);
Khaled M. Fawzi, San Jose, CA (US);
Ta-Chang Fu, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert C. Reinhart, San Jose, CA (US);
Jr-Yi Shen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An integrated pivot-carriage for a hard disk drive for improving a pivot bonding process. Embodiments include a pivot-bearing assembly comprising an upper bearing, a lower bearing and a pivot-bearing spacer there between; a carriage comprising: a center-bore within which a pivot-shaft coupled with the pivot-bearing assembly is disposed; and a plurality of pivot-bonding glue dispensers, each of the pivot-bonding glue dispensers comprising: a glue inlet; a glue outlet; and an enclosing wall defining an interior flow passage between the glue inlet and the glue outlet, the interior flow passage configured for conveying bonding glue there through; and a glue receiving region coupling the glue outlet with a bearing of the upper and the lower bearing, the glue receiving region configured for receiving bonding glue dispensed thereto, thereby bonding the pivot-bearing assembly with the carriage.