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公开(公告)号:WO2023086125A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-19
申请号:PCT/US2022/029341
申请日:2022-05-14
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: SHI, Norman , MATSUMOTO, Takuya , STIPE, Barry Cushing
Abstract: A heat‑assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) disk drive uses a semiconductor laser mounted on a slider to deliver light to a near-field transducer (NFT) via a waveguide located inside the slider. The waveguide includes a core and cladding material that is transparent to the laser light and surrounds the core. Layers of stray light absorption material are located inside the slider on opposite edges of the waveguide core in the same plane as the core and on opposite sides of the waveguide core in planes spaced from the plane of the core. Portions of the waveguide cladding material are located between the waveguide core and the stray light absorption layers. The stray light absorption layers absorb light that leaks into the cladding material and substantially reduces stray light reflected to the laser to prevent undesirable laser power fluctuation.
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公开(公告)号:WO2023049221A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-30
申请号:PCT/US2022/044299
申请日:2022-09-21
Applicant: MAGNECOMP CORPORATION
Inventor: GLAESS, David , EE, Kuen Chee , ZHANG, Long
Abstract: Examples of a load beam are described herein that include a lifter tab extending towards a distal end, a dustpan defined by a dustpan forming line at a proximal end and the lifter tab at a distal end and a first and second plurality of rail sections separated by a longitudinal axis. The first and second plurality rail sections including a rear rail, an intermediate rail, and a front rail. The rear rail extends from a proximal end of the load beam to the first intermediate rail, the intermediate rail extends from the first rear rail to the dustpan forming line, and the front rail extends from the dustpan forming line to a proximal end of the lifter tab.
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公开(公告)号:WO2022178171A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:PCT/US2022/016859
申请日:2022-02-17
Applicant: MAGNECOMP CORPORATION
Inventor: GLAESS, David , EE, Kuen Chee
Abstract: A trace gimbal is described herein. In some embodiments, the trace gimbal includes outer struts including a front outrigger at a distal end of the trace gimbal and a rear outrigger at a proximal end of the trace gimbal. The front outrigger includes a distal front outrigger and a proximal front outrigger, and the rear outrigger includes a distal rear outrigger and a proximal rear outrigger. The trace gimbal further includes a middle strut extending in a width direction of the trace gimbal and adjoining the proximal front outrigger to the rear outrigger, and an inner strut connecting the middle strut to a slider tongue. The inner strut includes a slot, and the inner strut and the middle strut adjoin the outer gimbal struts to the slider tongue.
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公开(公告)号:WO2021252648A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-16
申请号:PCT/US2021/036642
申请日:2021-06-09
Applicant: MAGNECOMP CORPORATION
Inventor: EE, Kuen, Chee , GLAESS, David
IPC: G11B5/48 , F16F7/00 , F16F7/10 , F16F15/00 , F16F15/02 , F16F15/04 , F16F15/10 , G11B5/4826 , G11B5/4833
Abstract: A flexure is described herein. The flexure includes a slider tongue with a proximal end and a distal end. The sliding tongue including a leading edge at the proximal end prone to contact an undersurface of a load beam attached to the flexure. The flexure also includes a magnetic read/write head slider attached to the slider tongue at the distal end, at least one PZT microactuator affixed to the slider tongue, between the proximal end and the distal end, and at least one dampening device at the leading edge of the slider tongue configured to reduce an impulse during a non-operational shock event and reduce stress on the at least one PZT microactuator.
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公开(公告)号:WO2021201899A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-07
申请号:PCT/US2020/037820
申请日:2020-06-15
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: HAGIYA, Shinobu , TSUCHIDA, Hiroyasu , PAN, Tzong-Shii , NITTA, Haruki , NOGUCHI, Yoshinobu
IPC: G11B5/48 , G11B5/55 , H01L41/09 , G11B5/483 , G11B5/4873 , G11B5/5552
Abstract: An approach to a piezoelectric (PZT) device, such as a hard disk drive microactuator, includes one or more layers of poled PZT material, with top and bottom surfaces coupled with respective electrode layers coupled with a power source to drive the active PZT layer(s). The electrode layers have different thicknesses, where the particular thicknesses may be configured to mitigate the variation of out-of-plane motion or bending associated with operational variations in the z-height between a corresponding actuator arm and recording medium and, likewise, the phase variation of flexure vibration.
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公开(公告)号:WO2021154324A1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-05
申请号:PCT/US2020/035013
申请日:2020-05-28
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: CHAWALITSITTIKUL, Pongsatorn , SUVIBUA, Anucha , SEDKLANG, Wanchai
Abstract: A head gimbal assembly for a data storage device is provided. The head gimbal assembly includes a suspension, and a slider mounting point on the suspension. The slider mounting point includes an adhesive pocket bounded by a plurality of dielectric standoffs.
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公开(公告)号:WO2021148893A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-29
申请号:PCT/IB2021/050066
申请日:2021-01-06
Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION , IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED , IBM (CHINA) INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED
Inventor: SEAGLE, David , BISKEBORN, Robert , LO, Calvin
IPC: G11B5/48 , G11B5/39 , G11B5/31 , G11B20/10 , G11B19/02 , G11B5/00817 , G11B5/10 , G11B5/11 , G11B5/115 , G11B5/17 , G11B5/29 , G11B5/3116 , G11B5/315 , G11B5/3903 , G11B5/3912 , G11B5/3967 , G11B5/3977 , G11B5/4893
Abstract: An apparatus includes a module (204) having a first array of read transducers (216). A first electrical shielding layer (240) is positioned above the first array of read transducers (216). An array of write transducers (214) is positioned above the first electrical shielding layer (240). A second electrical shielding layer (242) is positioned above the array of write transducers (214). A second array of read transducers (216) is positioned above the second electrical shielding layer (242).
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公开(公告)号:WO2021126308A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-24
申请号:PCT/US2020/038061
申请日:2020-06-17
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: SAKAGAMI, Akira , TAKAHASHI, Toshio , UEFUNE, Kouki
Abstract: A data storage device is disclosed comprising a reel that is rotated for a first interval in order to expose a first frame of a magnetic tape to a head. The head is actuated in a first and second dimensions over the magnetic tape in order to access the first frame of the magnetic tape.
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公开(公告)号:WO2021126297A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-24
申请号:PCT/US2020/026121
申请日:2020-04-01
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: TEO, Kia Moh , LIU, Yanning
Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus (100) that comprises an actuator arm (116) that is pivotably connectable to a pivot post (118) at a proximal end. The actuator arm (116) extends linearly along a first axis (B) from the proximal end to a distal end. The apparatus (100) also comprises a lift tab (112) that comprises an elongate member (402). The elongate member (402) comprises a proximal end (408), coupled to the distal end of the actuator arm, and a distal end (406). The elongate member (402) extends linearly along a second axis (A) from the proximal end (408) to the distal end (406). The second axis (A) intersects the first axis (B) to define an angle (204) between the first axis (B) and the second axis (A). The distal end (406) of the elongate member (402) is configured to engage an incline member (108) when the actuator arm (116) is in an unload position to lift the actuator arm (116).
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公开(公告)号:WO2021101583A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-27
申请号:PCT/US2020/025716
申请日:2020-03-30
Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: NGUYEN, Jack, T.
Abstract: A data storage device is disclosed comprising a base casting forming a housing, wherein components within the housing comprise a first disk, a first head, and a first printed circuit board (RGB) being curved to substantially follow an arc of a first part of a shroud that surrounds at least part of the first disk. The first RGB has mounted thereon a first integrated circuit comprising a first microprocessor configured to actuate the first head over the first disk in order to access the first disk.
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