Head parking ramp for hard disk drive
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDo-wan Kim, Chul-woo Lee, Ki-tag Jeong, Tae-sik Kang
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AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDo-wan Kim, Chul-woo Lee, Ki-tag Jeong, Tae-sik Kang
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A head parking ramp for a hard disk drive (HDD). The head parking ramp is designed to park a read/write head off a disk of the HDD when the disk stops rotating. The head parking ramp includes a fixed part fixed to a base member, a support part having a support surface and supporting an end-tab, and a flexure limiter limiting a vertical movement of a flexure due to an external shock. Among both longitudinal ends of each of top and bottom surfaces of the flexure limiter facing the flexure, first inclined surfaces are formed on at least the ends opposite to the disk. Accordingly, even though the flexure contacts the flexure limiter when an actuator is assembled with the ramp, the flexure is prevented from being deformed.
A head parking ramp for parking a read/write head, which is mounted on a slider of an actuator, off a disk of a hard disk drive when the disk stops rotating, the actuator including a swing arm pivotally installed on a base member, a load beam coupled to one end of the swing arm, a flexure attached to the load beam and supporting the slider, and an end-tab extending from a front end of the load beam, the head parking ramp comprising:
A hard disk drive (HDD), comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.