Abstract:
A housing assembly (1-10) for multiple disks (1-12) used in a disk mass information storage unit in a data processing system. The housing includes fixed baffles (2-84, 86) proximate the outer disk surfaces in the housing to substantially reduce temperature differentials among the disk surfaces.
Abstract:
A disk drive having attenuated vibrations for improved disk drive performance. The disk drive has first and second viscoelastic dampers effective in attenuating vibrations during operation of the disk drive.
Abstract:
In a servo control loop, the rate of change of filter coefficients used by an adaptive filter to counteract external disturbances to head position is regulated in response to a characteristic of an acceleration signal. Regulating the rate of change of the filter coefficients may improve the stability of the servo control loop.
Abstract:
A disc drive has a rotatable disc carried by a spindle motor and an actuator assembly with a read/write head. A base deck supports the spindle motor and the actuator assembly and defines a connector opening for transmitting electrical signals from the read/write head through the base deck to a printed circuit board attached to an exterior surface of the base deck. A bulkhead connector is adhesively affixed to the base deck to cover the connector opening. The bulkhead connector comprises a backing plate and a flex circuit bonded to the backing plate. The flex circuit extends across a top surface of the backing plate, wraps around one edge of the backing plate, and extends across a bottom surface of the backing plate.
Abstract:
In certain embodiments, a method includes sensing a mode of a motor-base assembly's response to vibration. Based on the sensed response, the method includes adjusting a head-suspension assembly to compensate for off-track motion caused by the vibration.In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a sensor positioned on a basedeck such that the sensor senses a mode of the motor-base assembly's response to linear vibration.
Abstract:
In accordance with various embodiments, a data storage device comprises a sealed housing which encloses a data storage medium. The sealed housing comprises a substantially planar first housing plate with respective length, width and thickness dimensions and a circumferentially extending first peripheral edge, a substantially planar second housing plate with a circumferentially extending second peripheral edge, and a circumferentially extending first sealing member contactingly disposed between the respective first and second peripheral edges. A substantially planar third housing plate extends adjacent the first planar housing plate with respective length and width dimensions substantially corresponding to the length and width dimensions of the first housing plate, and a circumferentially extending third peripheral edge. A circumferentially extending second seal member is contactingly disposed between the second and third peripheral edges to form a hermetic seal for the low density gas.
Abstract:
In a servo control loop, the rate of change of filter coefficients used by an adaptive filter to counteract external disturbances to head position is regulated in response to a characteristic of an acceleration signal. Regulating the rate of change of the filter coefficients may improve the stability of the servo control loop.
Abstract:
A method for writing servo information to a data storage medium adapted for use in a data storage device wherein the medium is operably moved in ambient air at a nominal speed in data reading and writing relationship with a data transfer member. In one embodiment the method for writing comprises placing the medium adjacent a data transfer member in an enclosure containing a gaseous environment as a selected state; moving the medium to impart velocity to the gaseous environment which, in turn, impacts the data transfer member with forces flying the writing member at a first fly height from the medium; and subsequently introducing a gas having a density less than the gaseous environment into the enclosure, thereby responsively reducing the fly height of the writing member to a selected height less than the first fly height.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is described for reducing and isolating actuator noise in disc drives. An isolation mount is provided between the disc-drive case and its external mounting assembly. A disc drive that includes an external mounting member, a disc case, and an actuator assembly mounted within the disc case. In some embodiments, the disc drive also includes at least one damper holding the disc case to the external mounting member that allows rotational movement of the disc case relative to the external mounting member in order to reduce the emission of sound from the disc case. Another aspect of the invention provides a disc drive that includes an external mounting member, a disc case, an actuator assembly mounted within the disc case, and at least one damper holding the disc case to the external mounting member, the damper including a softer part and a stiffer part, wherein the softer part acts primarily for relatively small movements of the disc case and the stiffer part acts primarily for relatively large movements of the disc case.
Abstract:
A rotary actuator assembly for positioning read/write heads in disk drive mass storage systems. The actuator assembly includes an actuator motor and one or more actuator arms secured thereto. The motor provides rotary motion of the arms, to move the heads. The stator magnet of the motor is an electromagnet wound on an arcuate core; a pair of elongate permanent magnets are attached to the rotor member, for coaction with the stator magnet. The rotor member has a U-shaped cross sectional area in a plane perpendicular to its axis of rotation; the permanent magnets are fixed to the outside, bottom corners of the U and the actuator arms are mounted across the open end of the U. The rotor is of a very small radius, to minimize inertia. The permanent magnets have a flat face facing the stator, with a channel running longitudinally down the middle, to minimize flux density variations in the permanent magnet-coil gap. The rotor balances the arm relative to the rotor's axis. The arms are of a substantially symmetrical tapered truss design, presenting low inertia; each is cantilevered to the rotor by one bolt which is passed through and pulls the arm against the rotors. Additionally, a spirol-type cylindrical spiral spring, received in a slot in the arm, prevents lateral slippage of the arm relative to the rotor. A pair of cantilevered leaf spring crash stops fixed to the stator decelerate the rotor at the ends of its range of travel.