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US 10,319,396 B2Granted
Transducer bar translation system and method of translating a transducer bar
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsGlenn Johnson, Kevin Mayer, Peter Gunderson
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Abstract
A plurality of transducer bars may be concurrently translated from a first orientation to a second orientation by a translation system that has first and second plates. The first plate can have a plurality of first notches with each first notch shaped to hold a transducer bar in a horizontal orientation. The second plate can have a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a first plate having a plurality of first notches with each first notch shaped to hold a transducer bar in a horizontal orientation;
- and
- a second plate having a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped with a varying width to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation.
A system comprising:
- a first plate having a plurality of first notches with each first notch shaped to hold a transducer bar in a horizontal orientation with vacuum pressure;
- and
- a second plate having a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped with a varying width to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation.
A method comprising:
- positioning a plurality of transducing bars in a plurality of first notches of a first plate, each first notch shaped to hold an individual transducer bar in a horizontal orientation;
- and
- translating each of the plurality of transducing bars from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation by moving each transducing bar from the first plate to a second plate having a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped with a varying width to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to the vertical orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.