Piezoelectric microactuator for slider side actuation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSatya P. Arya, Tzong-Shii Pan
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Abstract
A microactuator device for effecting fine positioning of a transducing head with respect the selected track on a disk, wherein the piezoelectric microactuator element is positioned adjacent to one side of and substantially coextensive with a slider, the slider being attached to the moving end of a flexure, and the two ends of microactuator element are attached to moving end and fixed legs of the flexure and provide rotary motion.
Claims12
A disk drive secondary actuating system having a flexure with fixed and movable end portions, a slider carrying a head transducer, a microactuator device for effecting fine positioning of the head transducer;
- the microactuator device comprising:
- a piezoelectric element positioned adjacent to one side of the slider, and substantially coextensive with the slider, the piezoelectric element having its two ends attached respectively to the moving and stationary end portions of the flexure.
A microactuator device for effecting fine positioning of a head transducer with respect to the selected track on a disk, the microactuator comprising:
- a piezoelectric element positioned adjacent to one side of, and substantially coextensive with the slider, the piezoelectric element having its two ends attached to the respective moving and stationary end portions of the flexure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.