Suspension clip ring mount
AssigneeMaxtor Corporation
InventorsF. Eugene Dion, Jim Fahey, Charlie Morris, Ken Fernalld
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Abstract
An actuator arm assembly that has a pair of spring-like fingers which extend from an actuator arm and clamp the arm to the housing of a bearing assembly. The actuator arm assembly includes a magnetic head that is mounted to a suspension beam. The suspension beam is welded to the actuator arm. After the beam is welded to the arm and the head is mounted to the beam, the actuator arm is clamped to the bearing assembly by merely pushing the arm and snapping the fingers onto the bearing housing. The actuator assembly may also have a coil support arm that supports a voice coil and has a pair of fingers which can be snapped onto the bearing assembly.
Claims18
An actuator arm that is coupled to a bearing assembly of a hard disk drive, comprising:
- an actuator arm that has a pair of opposed fingers that are deflected to apply a biased spring force against the bearing assembly as the sole means to attach said actuator arm to the bearing assembly.
An actuator arm assembly for a hard disk drive, comprising:
- a bearing assembly;
- and
- an actuator arm that has a pair of opposed spaced fingers that are deflected so as to apply a biased spring force to said bearing assembly as the sole means to attach said actuator arm to said bearing assembly.
An actuator arm assembly for a hard disk drive, comprising:
- a bearing assembly that has a cylindrical housing with a pair of annular grooves;
- an actuator arm that has a pair of opposed, spaced fingers located within one of said annular grooves clamped to said cylindrical housing, said fingers being deflected to apply a biased spring force against said cylindrical housing to maintain said fingers in said groove, for preventing movement axially to said cylindrical housing;
- a suspension beam that extends from said actuator arm;
- a transducer mounted to said suspension beam;
- a coil support arm which has a pair of fingers located within one of said annular grooves and clamped to said cylindrical housing, said fingers being deflected to apply a spring force onto said cylindrical housing;
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- a coil attached to said coil support arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.