Abstract:
An FPC mounting structure wherein an inner surface of a guide hole formed in a chassis is cut and raised to form a support projection, an FPC holder is formed with first and second holding portions which permit the support projection to be fitted therein, the FPC holder with a terminals-formed portion of the FPC attached thereto is inserted into the guide hole of the chassis and the first holding portion of the FPC holder to be fitted on the support projection, allowing the FPC holder to be supported by the chassis and allowing terminals on the FPC and circuit patterns on a printed circuit board to become conductive with each other.
Abstract:
A cleaning cartridge for cleaning a reciprocating read/write head of a tape drive. The cartridge includes a cleaning tape and cleaning segments that cooperate to clean the tape contacting surface and the air-bleed slots of a read/write head as it moves thereagainst. The cleaning segments are preferably mounted on a carrier that may be displaced to accommodate different models of tape drives having various read/write head projection depths, and which may include a resilient member for urging the cleaning segments towards the read/write head with a predetermined amount of force.
Abstract:
A method of mounting a core slider onto a suspension and a robot mounter for mounting a core slider onto a suspension are disclosed. A work having at least one or more location onto which the core slider is to be bonded is affixed on a jig board. Adhesive is applied by a dispenser at predetermined location of the suspension to be bonded. A selected core slider is picked up from a supply of core sliders by a transfer assembly, and the selected core slider is transferred with the transfer assembly to a position adjusting unit, and the position of the core slider is adjusted with the position adjusting unit. The core slider is transferred with the transfer assembly from the position adjusting unit to the predetermined location of the suspension which has adhesive thereon. The core slider retained by the transfer assembly is contacted with the adhesive disposed on the suspension. The adhesive is hardened by exposing the adhesive to UV-radiation.
Abstract:
A polymer based on a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine is prepared by polycondensation in an extruder, by (a) heating a mixture of a dicarboxylic acid having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms and a diamine having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, which mixture is solid at room temperature and has a residual moisture content of less than 5% by weight, to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. under autogenous pressure in a contrarotating twin-screw extruder to give a product A, (b) feeding the product A to a corotating twin-screw extruder, with the product A being exposed to a temperature in the range from 150 to 400° C. and residual water present and also water from the polycondensation being removed through the degassing openings, to give a product B, with the proviso that the corotating twin-screw extruder has at least two segments having different pressures.
Abstract:
A multi-head, disc drive, of a data storage system having a preamplifier that is split into a mother chip and set of daughter chips, each daughter chip corresponding to a head in the disc drive. The daughter chips contain very little circuitry, typically just a write driver, the front end of a read amplifier, a write fault detector, and a bias control circuit. Because the daughter chip contains little circuitry, it can be made much smaller and lighter than a conventional preamplifier, allowing the daughter chip to be placed on the suspension, close to the head. This allows the signal sent to and received from the head associated with a daughter chip to be strong enough not to be corrupted during transmission to the circuitry in the rest of the preamplifier. It also increases the bandwidth and reduces the power consumption of the preamplifier. The mother chip contains the remaining circuitry needed in the preamplifier and can be placed farther away, on a portion of the HSA that can support a larger chip.
Abstract:
A bonding apparatus for bonding a magnetic piece to a backiron includes a base and a back assembly next to the base and having at least one back surface. A front assembly having a front surface facing the back assembly has at least one aperture for a locating pin. The locating pin is slip fit into the aperture of the front assembly. In addition, a method for replacing locating pins is provided.
Abstract:
A disk storage device has a simultaneous data transfer head (2284) having a plurality of data transducer (2570) for the simultaneous storage and/or retrieval of a plurality of data on a disk. The device makes it feasible for the simultaneous transfer of data to and from a disk storage device with a storage area formed thereon (2272), thereby increasing the I/O between the processing limit and the storage device.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns an apparatus, method, and article of manufacture that satisfies the need for verifying the identity of a designated head in a gang servo head environment by querying a control parameter unit. In one embodiment, the invention may be implemented to provide a method to increase head select robustness for group head systems controlled by drive electronics. The method is practiced when a request is made for a designated head to perform a read or write operation. The request is received by a control parameter unit included in an arm electronics unit. The control parameter unit is then queried to verify the identity of the arm electronics unit selected. The identity of the designated head is then received. A parity check of the control data is performed and, assuming no errors, an actuating arm containing the designated head is positioned. The selected arm electronics unit is loaded with read or write data copied from a host system and transferred to or from the storage device. In various embodiments, the actuating arm electronics unit contain circuitry for repeatedly verifying that the proper head was selected and the integrity of data copied to the arm electronics unit.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording disk drive uses side-by-side read/write heads formed on head carriers that are identical for both top and bottom disk surfaces. Thus, a common head carrier functions as a single manufacturable part usable for both top and bottom disk surfaces. The common head carrier has a trailing end with a pattern of components formed on it that includes three side-by-side transducers (two read elements equally spaced about a center write element) and five terminal pads, one of which is a common pad, and all of the electrical connectors interconnecting the five terminal pads with the three transducers. There are only three terminal pads for the two read elements, with one of the read terminal pads being a common terminal pad that is electrically connected to both read elements. During assembly of the disk drive, the common carrier, when used as the top carrier, has a first read terminal pad and the common terminal pad connected to the leads on the suspension. When used as the bottom carrier, the second read terminal pad and the common terminal pad are connected to the leads on the suspension. Thus, only one carrier common to both top and bottom sides of the disk needs to be manufactured. The uniqueness of the top and bottom carriers is obtained by the wiring connection of the read terminal pads to the leads on the suspensions.
Abstract:
An interactive device for lapping transducers has a body with an abrasive surface that communicates with the transducers in order to provide information for controlling the lapping and testing the transducers. The lapping body is preferably shaped as a disk, drum or tape, and communicates with the transducer using a type of signal that the transducer is designed to read and/or write. Thus for lapping a magnetic head or slider to be employed in a hard disk drive, the lapping body contains a magnetic medium layer that is either prerecorded or written by the head during lapping, while the signal received by the head is monitored and analyzed by a processor in order to determine, in part, when to terminate lapping. A series of transducers can be simultaneously lapped while individually monitored, so that each transducer can be removed from the lapping body individually upon receipt of a signal indicating that transducer has been lapped an optimal amount. Transducers for employment in drive systems can also be tested for performance characteristics by utilizing lapping bodies having surface characteristics similar to those found in the drive system.