Disc drive cartridge arrangement
AssigneeSyquest Technology, Inc.
InventorAnil Nigam
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Abstract
A disc drive cartridge arrangement includes a hub clamp for engaging a spindle of a disc drive which clamp has inwardly spiralling fingers to reduce the space required therefor and to firmly engage the spindle, and a door and aperture arrangement which allows the heads of the disc drive to enter the cartridge from the upper and lower surfaces of the cartridge. The hub to which the disc of the disc drive cartridge arrangement is mounted includes a labyrinth seal arrangement for preventing contaminants from entering the interior of the housing.
Claims15
A cartridge with a data storage disc comprising:
- a housing;
- a hub means for rotatably mounting the disc to the housing;
- said hub means including a self-centering hub clamp having at least two inwardly extending and flexible fingers, said fingers being substantially disposed in a plane which is substantially perpendicular to an axis of said hub, and said fingers being flexibly displaceable in said plane so that said fingers are displaceable perpendicularly to said axis of said hub;
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- door and aperture means for allowing access through said housing to said disc.
A cartridge with a data storage disc comprising:
- a housing including first and second substantially parallel planar sides and a peripheral side secured between said first and second planar sides;
- and,
- a door and aperture means for allowing access through said housing to said disc, said door and aperture means including a first aperture in said first planar side and a second aperture in said peripheral side, which second aperture communicates whith said first aperture, said door and aperture means including a door, and means for slidably disposing the door on said housing so that the door can be slid over the first and second apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.