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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Kouki Uefune, Hiratsuka, JP;
Takenori Atsumi, Yamato, JP;
Hajime Eguchi, Fujisawa, JP;
Shigenori Takada, Fujisawa, JP;
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Approaches to a rotary actuator assembly configured for use in a hard disk drive (HDD) include a voice coil interleaved between the pivot bearing and the actuator arm, providing a longer pivot-to-head dimension which reduces the radius of curvature of the arc in which the head slider travels over the disk for accessing portions of the disk. Reducing the arc radius of curvature reduces the maximum skew angles of the read-write head in association with the disk tracks. The width of the actuator arm can be widened to provide improved operating characteristics even in view of the longer pivot-to-head dimension.