Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hard disk drive multiple contact disk clamp
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Application No.: US18135065Application Date: 2023-04-14
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Publication No.: US11935560B2Publication Date: 2024-03-19
- Inventor: Robert McNab , Rasool Koosha , Mukesh Patel
- Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent John D. Henkhaus
- Main IPC: G11B19/20
- IPC: G11B19/20 ; G11B17/038

Abstract:
A disk clamp for a hard disk drive, configured to clamp disk media to a spindle, includes multiple protrusions extending from a surface of a bottom side and configured to contact a disk medium at multiple contact positions in response to application of a clamping load. The protrusions may be annular protrusions circumscribing a disk clamp hub, where the height of an inner protrusion may be less than the height of an outer protrusion to inhibit coning of the top disk medium, and the protrusions may be positioned so that an equivalent contact radius corresponding to contact radii of the inner and outer annular protrusions is at a position halfway between the inner and outer diameters of the disk spacers to inhibit coning of the middle disk media.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230352048A1 HARD DISK DRIVE MULTIPLE CONTACT DISK CLAMP Public/Granted day:2023-11-02
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