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AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsVipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, Toshiki Hirano, Neale M. Jones
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A hermetically-sealed container for one or more data storage devices may include a base having grooves, and corresponding sidewalls disposed within each groove, with an adhesive disposed within each groove and bonding each sidewall to the base, and with gap spacing mechanisms positioned within each groove between the corresponding sidewall and the base, thereby ensuring a gap for sufficient flow of the adhesive between each sidewall and the base. The adhesive may be a liquid-based epoxy adhesive, and whereby the spacing mechanisms enable sufficient capillary action to wet all the surfaces to form a sound hermetic bond or seal between the sidewalls and the base. The container may, then, be filled with a lighter-than-air gas such as helium.
A hermetically-sealed container for one or more data storage devices, the container comprising:
A method of hermetically sealing a container housing one or more data storage devices, the method comprising:
A method of enabling a liquid adhesive dispensed into a plurality of grooves in a container base housing one or more data storage devices to wet (1) each of an inner surface, a bottom surface, and an outer surface of each of a plurality of container sidewalls positioned within a corresponding groove of said plurality of grooves and (2) each of a corresponding inner surface, bottom surface, and outer surface of said corresponding groove, the method comprising:
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