IP Library Patent Application 12004326
Patent Application
App. No. 12/004,326

Information storage device

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App. No.
12/004,326
Abstract

The present invention aims to provide an information storage device realizing high cleaning performance. The information storage device includes: a plurality of disc-shaped information storage media that are rotated by being fixed to a common rotary shaft and record information, and in each of which through holes penetrating the disc-shaped medium are formed around the rotary shaft; an access section that accesses information in the information recording media; and a filter that removes dusts in air by passage of the air flowing in association with rotation of the information recording media.

Claims (13)

1 . An information storage device comprising:

a plurality of disc-shaped information storage media that are rotated by being fixed to a common rotary shaft and record information, and in each of which through holes penetrating the disc-shaped medium are formed around the rotary shaft;

an access section that accesses information in the information recording media; and

a filter that removes dusts in air by passage of the air flowing in association with rotation of the information recording media.

2 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , wherein information is recorded in a band-shaped area surrounding the rotary shaft, in a disk surface of the information storage medium, and the through holes are formed in the inner side of the band-shaped area.

3 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the through holes are formed in one round around the rotary shaft in the information storage medium.

4 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the through holes are formed in a plurality of rounds around the rotary shaft in the information storage medium.

5 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , wherein a circular hole is formed as the through hole in the information storage medium.

6 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , wherein a square hole with rounded corners is formed as the through hole in the information storage medium.

7 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , further comprising a ring-shaped spacer surrounding the rotary shaft, sandwiched by the plurality of information storage media, and maintaining an interval between the plurality of information storage media, in which a groove that extends in a direction of connecting the information storage media is formed in a position corresponding to each of the through holes.

8 . The information storage device according to claim 6 , wherein a round-bottomed groove is formed as the groove in the spacer.

9 . The information storage device according to claim 6 , wherein a flat-bottomed groove is formed as the groove in the spacer.

10 . The information storage device according to claim 6 , wherein a V-shaped groove is formed as the groove in the spacer.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 24, 2009
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: TOSHIBA STORAGE DEVICE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023565/0179 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 20, 2007
From: SHIMIZU, KEISHI
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 020331/0402 →