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Method of improving air flow in compact disc drive

US4280155A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 4, 1979
Grant dateJul 21, 1981
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Expiry dateJun 4, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B23/505
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method is described for improving the air flow over the surfaces of magnetic recording discs in a disc drive having a plurality of rotatingly driven such discs each having adiameter of less than nine inches and being coaxial and spaced from one another, and such disc drive having a plurality of selectively positionable magnetic transducer heads overlying portions of the discs, the method including spacing adjacent such discs a predetermined minimum distance from one another.

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