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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Kathryn Chuan Tao, Clayton, CA (US);
Stephen Paul Williams, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kathryn Chuan Tao, Clayton, CA (US);
Stephen Paul Williams, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Approaches for a hard-disk drive (HDD) and a head gimbal assembly comprising techniques for forming the gimbal legs in a head gimbal assembly (HGA) in a manner to shift the distribution of mass of the HGA that results in controlling the magnitude of resonance gain associated with the HGA during operation of a hard-disk drive.