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US 11,670,336 B2Granted
Magnetic bearings for data storage devices
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsAravind Pitty, Xiong Liu
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Abstract
A hard disk drive includes a base deck that is coupled to a cover, a motor assembly that is coupled to the base deck, and magnetic recording media that is coupled to the motor assembly. The motor assembly includes a magnetic bearing with a horizontal magnetic bearing component and a vertical magnetic bearing component.
Claims15
A hard disk drive comprising:
- a base deck coupled to a cover;
- a motor assembly coupled to the base deck and including a stationary component with a sleeve and a rotatable component with a shaft;
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- magnetic recording media coupled to the motor assembly,
- the motor assembly including a magnetic bearing with a horizontal magnetic bearing component and a vertical magnetic bearing component, wherein the vertical magnetic bearing component includes an upper pair of repelling magnetic poles and a lower pair of repelling magnetic poles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.