摘要:
The present invention is a head support device which is thin and may assure excellent flexibility and shock resistance while applying a sufficient load to the head, and a disk drive using the device. Specifically, it comprises a support arm, and a head disposed at one end of the support arm, which is mounted on a head slider so as to be opposed to the recording medium, an elastic member such as a plate spring member which renders the support arm an activating force in a direction vertical to the recording medium when the support arm comes to the rotational center in vertical rotation against the recording medium, and a spring fixing member connected to the elastic member, wherein when an external impact force is applied to the head slider, suppose the distance from the action point of load that activates the head slider toward the recording medium to the immovable point in the rotation of the head slider in the direction of pitch is Lo, and the length of head slider 1 in the direction of air flow is Ls, then 0.5
摘要:
The present invention relates to a head supporting mechanism comprising a slider (50) on which a head (60) for recording and/or reproducing data on and from a recording medium is installed; a slider supporting member (32) for supporting the slider; a load beam (20) having a protrusion (28) placed on a free end thereof; and a flexure (30) with a flexure substrate (31) disposed at the load beam (20); wherein the flexure (30) is extending the flexure substrate (31) in the longitudinal direction and the slider supporting member (32) is supported by the free part (33f) of the extended end of the flexure (30); the load beam (20) supports the slider supporting member (32) by the protrusion (28) so as to pivot thereon around an axis of the protrusion (28) in the normal direction of the load beam to provide tracking compensation, a pair of displacement members (40a, 40b) is disposed on the flexure (30) between the flexure substrate (31) and the slider supporting member (32) side of a free end of the flexure extending from the flexure substrate, and the slider supporting member (32) comprises a main section (32a) and a slider-center-of-gravity holding section (32b) connected to the main section (32a) so as to allow the protrusion (28) on the load beam (20) to contact, whereby the slider-center-of-gravity holding section (32b) having a stepped structure (32b).
摘要:
Disclosed are a low profile head support device having an excellent shock resistance while applying necessary and sufficient biasing forces on a head and a disk drive using the same. A more specifically, the head support device comprises: a head; head suspension 2 to suspend the head; base arm 4 secured to actuator axis 10 pivotally, suspending the head suspension; pivot fulcrum 5 to suspend head suspension 2 movably; and spring member 2e to apply a biasing force to head suspension 2, wherein pivot fulcrum 5 is disposed on base arm 4. The head support device can be for use in various kinds of information devices such as data processing devices, magneto optical disk drives, optical disk drives or the like.
摘要:
Disclosed are a piezoelectric actuator with reinforced bending mode to suppress bending resonance caused by extension/contraction movements of the piezoelectric actuator and a disk drive using the same. A flexible substrate is separated by a slit. The first piezoelectric element unit (10a) and the second piezoelectric element unit (10b), both show extension/contraction displacement, are disposed on one of the slit-separated flexible substrates respectively. A coupling portion (40) is provided to couple said separated flexible substrates across the slit, wherein the coupling portion is provided at a position corresponding to an antinode of primary bending mode of the first and second piezoelectric element units being fixed in respective both ends.
摘要:
A load beam is provided with a base plate and a slider. A magnetic head apparatus is fixed to a head arm via a base plate. In a mechanism or structure for supporting such a magnetic head supporting mechanism, an elastically deformable portion is provided between the base plate and the load beam. Thus, a floating structure that allows the load beam to swing is formed about the elastically deformable portion. In addition, a weight of the load beam is balanced with respect to the elastically deformable portion. Furthermore, a contact portion for applying pressure to the load beam is provided on the head arm so that a pressing load to a recording medium would be set by an amount of rotation of the load beam caused by the pressure applied by the contact portion.
摘要:
A disk drive and a head supporting device, comprising a support arm (2) and a head mounted at one end of the support arm. The support arm is disposed in a rotatable manner about a bearing unit (10) in a radial direction of a recording medium as well as a perpendicular direction with respect to a writing surface of the recording medium and the support arm is provided with resilient means (4) for imposing upon itself with a thrusting force in a direction toward the recording medium. A fixing means (50) and adjusting means (5) are provided for the resilient means.
摘要:
A load beam (20) is attached to an actuator arm that is allowed to rock around a pivotal axis by a voice coil motor, etc., as a slider supporting member, the base end of a flexure (30) is attached to the load beam (20) with the free end thereof being left, a slider supporting member (32) is attached to the top portion of the flexure (30), a slider (50) on which a recording/reproduction head (60) is installed is secured to the slider supporting member (32), and the slider supporting member (32) is supported by a protrusion (28) placed on the free end side of the load beam (20) so as to be freely pivot thereon. Portions of the flexure (30) corresponding to both of the sides of this protrusion (28) are constituted by elastic hinge portions, each having a necked shape. A pair of thin-film piezoelectric elements (40a, 40b) are bonded to the flexure (30) as displacement members. In a tracking compensation operation of the head, forces are exerted on the slider supporting member (32) through the elastic hinge portion by extending and contracting operations of the pair of thin-film piezoelectric elements so that the slider (50) is allowed to pivot around the protrusion (28) of the load beam serving as the center of pivotal movements, together with the slider supporting member (32).
摘要:
A head supporting device comprises a support arm (2) and a head mounted to an underside surface at one end of the support arm. The support arm is disposed in a rotatable manner about a bearing unit (10) in a radial direction of a recording medium as well as a perpendicular direction with respect to a writing surface of the recording medium, and the support arm is provided with resilient means (4) for imposing upon itself with a thrusting force in a direction toward the recording medium. Because of this structure, a portion serving as the support arm can be formed with a material of high rigidity, the thrusting force of the resilient means upon the slider can be set freely as desired, and its resonance frequency can be increased, thereby providing the head supporting device with an extremely high resistance to shock, and high responsivity with capability of making a high speed access.
摘要:
A coupling portion (40) couples the separated flexible substrates mounted with respective piezoelectric element units (10a,10b), to suppress wavy response phenomenon of the flexible substrates. An independent claim is also included for disk drive.
摘要:
Disclosed is a spindle motor and a disk drive unit equipped with the same, having advantages of preventing hard collision between a disk and a signal conversion element due to lifting of rotating components, and avoiding the signal conversion element and swing means for positioning the signal conversion element from being damaged irreparably. Specifically, spindle motor 13 comprises rotor unit 5, stator 11, stator-side bearing member 6 in engagement with rotor-side bearing member 3 to form a shaft rotating type fluid bearing, and chassis 8. Rotor hub 2 has hollow cylinder portion 2a near central axis 1 of rotation, and cylindrical portion 7b of support column 7 secured to chassis 8 is positioned inside the hollow space of cylinder portion 2a without being in contact thereto. Cover 18 is placed with a bottom side of abutment portion 18b kept in abutment upon an upper end of cylindrical portion 7b of support column 7 with a predetermined small clearance provided between upper end 2c of rotor hub 2 and the bottom side of abutment portion 18b.