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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
Andres G. Ferre, Petaling Jaya, MY;
Sie Cheang Phuah, Subang Jaya, MY;
Lie Dhani Hastama, Petaling Jaya, MY;
Mooi Hoon Lim, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Dean A. Tarrant, San Jose, CA (US);
Andres G. Ferre, Petaling Jaya, MY;
Sie Cheang Phuah, Subang Jaya, MY;
Lie Dhani Hastama, Petaling Jaya, MY;
Mooi Hoon Lim, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Dean A. Tarrant, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A clean and purge tool (CAPT) is provided and includes a nest assembly that stows an open hard disk drive (HDD). The nest assembly is rotated from an upward facing position to a downward facing position to dislodge particles from a media clamp of the HDD. The CAPT also includes a cover hingedly attached to the nest assembly and encloses the HDD. The CAPT also includes a spindle clamp assembly (SCA) mounted on the cover and has a vacuum tube configured to encapsulate the media clamp. The SCA includes an air purge nozzle extending into the vacuum tube. The CAPT dislodges particles from the media clamp when pulses of compressed gas are applied to the media clamp by a compressed gas source via the air purge nozzle and evacuates the particles from the vacuum tube when a vacuum is applied to the vacuum tube by a vacuum source.