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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
James E. Mcguire, Jr., Westerville, OH (US);
Andrew C. Strange, Worthington, OH (US);
James E. McGuire, Jr., Westerville, OH (US);
Andrew C. Strange, Worthington, OH (US);
entrotech, inc., Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling a disk drive according to the invention comprises steps of: providing a base component of a housing of the disk drive; providing a cover component of the housing; mating the base component and the cover component to form an enclosed housing that encloses disk drive components for operation of the disk drive; and sealing the disk drive using low thermal energy bonding. A hermetically sealed disk drive of the invention comprises: a housing comprising a base and a cover; and disk drive components enclosed within the housing for operation of the disk drive, wherein the housing comprises a bondline continuously extending around a periphery of the housing for sealing the same.