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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate, Palakkad-Kerala, IN;
Toshiki Hirano, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 33/08 (2006.01); B23K 1/00 (2006.01); B23K 1/20 (2006.01); B23K 31/02 (2006.01); G11B 33/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 33/148 (2013.01); B23K 1/001 (2013.01); B23K 1/0016 (2013.01); B23K 1/20 (2013.01); B23K 31/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hard disk drive (HDD) assembly includes a conventional HDD enclosed within a two-piece metal container, whereby a lid is hermetically sealed to a body by melted metal and wherein the container is filled with helium gas. For example, the container may be formed of tin-plated steel and the two pieces soldered together to form the hermetically sealed container, having an electrical feed-through sealed similarly.