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Method and apparatus for improved starting and/or stopping in a contact start-stop (CSS) hard disk drive.

US7349169B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 25, 2006
Grant dateMar 25, 2008
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Expiry dateOct 25, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/40
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

CSS hard disk drive providing improved take-off and/or touchdown by asserting pitch actuation control signal stimulating a pitch actuator to flex a flexure finger, altering the pitch angle of slider coupling through flexure finger to pitch actuator. Method implemented by embedded circuit and/or embedded processor. Manufacturing embedded processor, embedded circuit, CSS hard disk drive, and these process products.

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