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Media enclosures dampening desk vibration in single disk storage devices

US7002773B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 2002
Grant dateFeb 21, 2006
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Expiry dateAug 22, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B33/08
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Aerodynamic forces contribute to disk and actuator vibration leading to track positioning errors in storage devices such as hard disk drives. The invention provides a variety of dampening mechanisms and a method of dampening to alleviate these problems in single disk storage devices. This includes disk drives of at most 13 millimeters in height.

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