摘要:
Disk spacers in multiple disk drives are shaped to provide a reliable mechanism for loading and unloading magnetic recording heads and a reliable latch when the heads are unloaded. The head load/unload system operates between a stack of latch-profiled spacer ramps sandwiching magnetic hard disks and a stack of lifting arms with contoured tips attached to head/suspension assemblies. The lifting arms and their contoured tips are built as part of the one-piece of the suspension load beams at their inner diameter side perpendicular to the load beam axis, or at their front along the axis. The spacer ramps are precisely machined to a latch profile with a desired rounded edge merging with the disk surface, an inclined slope, a round hump and a rounded recess, so that the contoured tip of a lifting arm can slide onto the slope first, over the hump and then into the recess where the tip is latched. The spacer ramps also serve either in a couple as the separator of any two adjacent disks, or individually as the separator between the top disk clamp and the top surface of the top disk and between the bottom base and the bottom disk. The spacer ramps are self-calibrated vertically with the disk stack. Both coated with diamond like carbon or other hard coatings, the profiled spacer ramps, also coated with lubricants after a hard coating, and contoured tips are reliable in ramp wear control. A single sided limiter from the suspension load beam reduces the torsion to the head flexure tang generated by the lifting force at an inner side lifting arm when the head is unloaded from the disk.
摘要:
Disclosed is a magnetic storage cartridge adapted to be removably received by a drive base. The magnetic storage cartridge comprises a housing that includes at least one magnetic disk rotatable about an axis, and an actuator arrangement pivotal about an axis. The actuator arrangement includes at least one read/write head for reading and writing information to and from the at least one magnetic disk. The housing also includes a first engagement feature positioned on the housing at the rotational axis of the magnetic disk and a second engagement feature positioned on the housing at the pivot axis of the actuator arrangement. The housing of the storage cartridge also includes a third engagement feature that is spaced from the first and second engagement features. The first, second and third engagement features adapted to be engaged by a corresponding first, second and third engagement features of the disk drive base to secure the magnetic storage cartridge to the disk drive base and substantially minimize performance degrading vibrations during operation of the magnetic storage cartridge.
摘要:
A magnetic recording disk coating having a high density of magnetic particles uniformly dispersed in a high performance, thermoset polyurethane resin binder with the dispersion applied as a thin coating onto a rigid substrate. The thermosetting resin binder comprises a blocked isocyanate polymer reacted with hydroxy terminated or branched oligomer or oligomers. The coating composition has an extended shelf life and can be cured at temperatures below 375.degree. F. to produce a smooth, hard, tough durable and well dispersed magnetic coating with an improved orientation ratio that readily accepts buffing, washing, and lubrication.