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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2006
Lidu Huang, Danville, CA (US);
Victor W. Santini, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chen-chi Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Lidu Huang, Danville, CA (US);
Victor W. Santini, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chen-Chi Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk clamp for clamping an information storage disk to a rotating spindle in a disk drive includes a deflection portion that is annular and conical in shape, and which has a material thickness, an outer extent, and an inner extent. In certain embodiments, the inner extent is offset from the outer extent by a particular height measured parallel to an axis of rotation of the disk clamp. The disk clamp may further include a disk contact portion that is disposed radially outboard from the deflection portion, and which may include a curvature radially outboard of the outer extent that departs from a projection of the deflection portion, and a surface for contacting the information storage disk.