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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ronald Eldon Anderson, Lakeville, MN (US);
Michael Louis Rancour, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Brett Robert Herdendorf, Mound, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1816 (2013.01);
Abstract
A testing system that is capable of testing individual data storage components may have testing, loader, and exchange assemblies with the testing assembly having a plurality of test slots each having long and short axes. The loader assembly can be configured to transport and install a test deck or data storage device from the exchange assembly to a test slot of the plurality of test slots with a long axis of the test deck continuously aligned with the long axis of the test slot while being transported.