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US 8,553,356 B1Granted
Disk limiter for disk drive
AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBaekho Heo, David K. Myers
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Abstract
A disk drive including a disk having a top surface, a cover positioned over the disk, and a disk limiter protruding from the cover toward the disk. The disk limiter is configured to contact a portion of the top surface of the disk when the disk is deflected toward the cover, and has a middle portion between two end portions. At least one portion of the disk limiter curves or slopes in a direction away from the disk.
Claims23
A disk drive comprising:
- a disk having a top surface;
- a cover positioned over the disk;
- and
- a disk limiter protruding from the cover toward the disk and configured to contact a portion of the top surface of the disk when the disk is deflected toward the cover,
- wherein the disk limiter has a middle portion between two end portions, each end portion having a chamfer sloping from the middle portion in a direction away from the disk toward an end of the end portion such that the chamfer includes a contact area substantially along a length of the chamfer for contact with the top surface of the disk.
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A disk drive comprising:
- a disk having a top surface;
- a cover positioned over the disk;
- and
- a disk limiter protruding from the cover toward the disk and configured to contact a portion of the top surface of the disk when the disk is deflected toward the cover,
- wherein the disk limiter has a middle portion between two end portions, each end portion having a curved bottom surface which curves from a bottom surface of the middle portion in a direction away from the disk toward an end of the end portion such that the curved bottom surface includes a contact area substantially along a length of the curved bottom surface for contact with the top surface of the disk.
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A disk drive comprising:
- a disk having a top surface;
- a cover positioned over the disk;
- and
- a disk limiter protruding from the cover toward the disk and configured to contact a portion of the top surface of the disk when the disk is deflected toward the cover,
- wherein the disk limiter has a middle portion between two end portions, the middle portion having a curved bottom surface which curves in a direction away from the disk toward the end portions such that the curved bottom surface includes a contact area substantially along a length of the curved bottom surface for contact with the top surface of the disk.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.