Jon M Garbarino

56662424, Sep 9, 1997

Nov 21, 1995

8/561344

John Robert Edwards - Mountain View CA
Jon Matthew Garbarino - San Jose CA

Western Digital Corporation - Irvine CA

G11B 555
F16C 2706

360106

A disk drive has a base, a cover, a spindle motor mounted to the base, and a disk coupled to the spindle motor. A rotary actuator comprising a head stack assembly is coupled to the base by a pivot bearing assembly. The pivot bearing assembly provides a stationary member, a bearing, and a sleeve member for rotatably supporting the actuator. The pivot bearing assembly further provides an elastomeric interface between the stationary member and the actuator such that vibratory motion imparted to the head stack assembly is dampened by the elastomeric interface.

60468890, Apr 4, 2000

Sep 24, 1998

9/160366

Keith R. Berding - San Jose CA
Jon Garbarino - San Jose CA

Western Digital Corporation - Irvine CA

G11B 555

360106

A disk drive includes a base, a spindle motor coupled to the base, a disk mounted on the spindle motor, a pivot assembly coupled to the base, and a head stack assembly. The head stack assembly includes an actuator body defining a bore for surrounding the pivot assembly, a supporting surface, and an actuator arm cantilevered from the actuator body and defining a longitudinal axis. The bore defines a pivot axis of the head stack assembly. The pivot assembly includes a stationary member coupled to the base, the stationary member having a length, and a rotatable member positioned on the supporting surface such that the rotatable member is between the stationary member and the supporting surface. The stationary member and the rotatable member define a projecting member and a recessed portion, the projecting member and the recessed portion interacting to allow the head stack assembly to pivot about the pivot axis. The projecting member defines a knife edge extending parallel to the length and facing in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

59148373, Jun 22, 1999

Jan 23, 1997

8/797551

John Robert Edwards - Mountain View CA
Jon Matthew Garbarino - San Jose CA

Western Digital Corporation - Irvine CA

G11B 555

360106

A disk drive has a base, a cover, a spindle motor mounted to the base, and a disk coupled to the spindle motor. A rotary actuator comprising a head stack assembly is coupled to the base by a pivot bearing assembly. The pivot bearing assembly provides a stationary member, a bearing, and a sleeve member for rotatably supporting the actuator. The pivot bearing assembly further provides an elastomeric interface between the stationary member and the actuator such that vibratory motion imparted to the head stack assembly is dampened by the elastomeric interface.

20200302959, Sep 24, 2020

Jun 4, 2020

16/893397

- San Jose CA, US
Jon M. Garbarino - San Jose CA, US

G11B 5/48
G11B 5/56
G11B 21/12
G11B 21/22
G11B 5/54

An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves a load/unload (LUL) ramp subsystem that includes a ramp assembly that includes a rotatable latch link configured for mechanical interaction with a head-stack assembly (HSA) and a LUL ramp coupled with the latch link, configured such that in response to a force applied to the latch link by the HSA, the latch link rotates which disengages a magnetic latch and drives the LUL ramp to rotate into an operational state disengaged from any recording disk of a multiple-disk stack. The subsystem may further include a motor configured to drive rotation of a lead screw to which the ramp assembly is attached, to drive vertical translation of the ramp assembly, thereby providing for loading the vertically-translatable HSA onto and off of each of the disks of the disk stack.

20200227077, Jul 16, 2020

Dec 31, 2019

16/731740

- San Jose CA, US
David K. Myers - Campbell CA, US
Jon M. Garbarino - San Jose CA, US
Garold W. Plonczak - Livermore CA, US

G11B 5/48

An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves an actuator elevator assembly for moving an actuator assembly along at least one support feature to provide a head slider access to at least two different disk media of a disk stack. The HDD includes a piezoelectric-based locking mechanism, including at least one piezoelectric actuator, movably coupled with the support feature, such that actuation of the actuator either locks or unlocks the locking mechanism relative to the support feature. When unlocked, the actuator assembly can be translated along the length of the disk stack via the actuator elevator assembly.

20200027477, Jan 23, 2020

Jul 18, 2019

16/516195

- San Jose CA, US
Jon M. Garbarino - San Jose CA, US

G11B 5/48

An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves a load/unload (LUL) ramp subsystem that includes a ramp assembly that includes a rotatable latch link configured for mechanical interaction with a head-stack assembly (HSA) and a LUL ramp coupled with the latch link, configured such that in response to a force applied to the latch link by the HSA, the latch link rotates which disengages a magnetic latch and drives the LUL ramp to rotate into an operational state disengaged from any recording disk of a multiple-disk stack. The subsystem may further include a motor configured to drive rotation of a lead screw to which the ramp assembly is attached, to drive vertical translation of the ramp assembly, thereby providing for loading the vertically-translatable HSA onto and off of each of the disks of the disk stack.