Disk drive
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKouichi Toukairin, Naoto Akatsuka
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a disk drive includes a housing, a disk recording medium in the housing, a drive motor, a head, a carriage configured to support the head for movement, and a flow regulation member between the recording medium and a sidewall of the housing, except for a moving region for the carriage. The flow regulation member includes a shroud member, which is located substantially flush the recording medium and adjacently faces the outer peripheral edge of the recording medium, and a plurality of fins protruding from the shroud member and configured individually to guide an airflow passing along a surface of the recording medium toward the outer periphery of the shroud member and prevent a backflow toward a center of the recording medium.
Claims15
A disk drive comprising:
- a housing comprising a bottom wall and a sidewall set up along a peripheral edge portion of the bottom wall;
- a drive motor on the bottom wall of the housing;
- a disk recording medium supported and rotated by the drive motor;
- a head configured to process information for the recording medium;
- a carriage configured to support the head for movement with respect to the recording medium;
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- a flow regulation member between an outer peripheral edge of the recording medium and the sidewall of the housing, except for a moving region for the carriage, and comprising a circular-arc-shaped shroud member, which is located substantially flush the recording medium and adjacently faces the outer peripheral edge of the recording medium, and a plurality of fins protruding from the shroud member and configured individually to guide an airflow passing along a surface of the recording medium toward the outer periphery of the shroud member and prevent a backflow toward a center of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.