Inventor

WATSON SCOTT E

US19 patents

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WATSON SCOTT E

WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC

Disk drive with an actuator latch having a biasing ball at least partially within a seating cavity adjoining a retention bore

Disk drive comprising a snap-on disk clamp

Disk drive including an actuator latch with a catch portion and a crash stop portion of lesser material stiffness than the catch portion

Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm

Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers

Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers

Disk drive comprising a support member for supporting a flex circuit and having a restraining member for vertically restraining an inertial latch

Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm

Disk drive including an actuator latch with a torsionally compliant pusher portion

Disk drive with translatable ramp

Disk drive having actuator motion damper via histeresis energy loss of low energy magnet placed within magnetic field of a voice coil motor

Head disk assembly including ramp having pivoting locational features

Coined VCM tab to limit cover deflection under pinch load

WESTERN DIGITAL CORP

Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab

Molded swing-type actuator assembly with press-fit pivot and spring-loaded ground conductor elements

HEO BAEKHO

Disk drive with asymmetric tolerance ring

LARSON NILS E

Disk drive having a head loading/unloading ramp that includes a torsionally-compliant member

YOUNG LIONEL

Disk drive with added external labyrinth path during servo track writing

WATSON SCOTT E

Slim form factor disk drive comprising disk drive enclosure having an insular raised region