IP Library Patent Application 12175051
Patent Application
App. No. 12/175,051

STORAGE DEVICE

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App. No.
12/175,051
Abstract

A storage device includes plural recording media, a housing configured to accommodate the plural recording media, a plate that is fixed and extends round between two adjacent recording media in the housing, plural sliders each of which is mounted with a magnetic head that is configured to record information in or reproduce the information from a corresponding one of the plural recording media, and plural arms, each of which is mounted with one of the plural sliders only on a single surface, and configured to move the one of the plural sliders.

Claims (16)

1 . A storage device comprising:

plural recording media;

a housing configured to accommodate the plural recording media;

a plate that is fixed and extends round between two adjacent recording media in the housing;

plural sliders each of which is mounted with a magnetic head that is configured to record information in or reproduce the information from a corresponding one of the plural recording media; and

plural arms, each of which is mounted with one of the plural sliders only on a single surface, and configured to move the one of the plural sliders.

2 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a plate shape.

3 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a first area in which the arm goes, and a second area in which the arm does not go, the first area being thinner than the second area.

4 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a projection in the second area, which projection is closest to a corresponding one of the recording media.

5 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a projecting outer edge in the second area.

6 . The storage device according to claim 5 , wherein part of the projecting outer edge has a notch.

7 . The storage device according to claim 6 , wherein the housing has an exhaust channel that is connected to the notch and encloses part of a corresponding one of the recording media.

8 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has an exhaust channel that extends parallel to a tangential direction of each recording media.

9 . The storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the plate has a cylindrical perforation hole, and the plate has a projection that extends from the cylindrical perforation hole to an outer circumference.

10 . The storage device according to claim 3 , wherein the plate has a cylindrical perforation hole, and the plate has a projection in the second area, which extends from the cylindrical perforation hole to an outer circumference.

11 . The storage device according to claim 9 , wherein the projection extends in a tangential direction of the cylindrical perforation hole.

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 Jul 17, 2008
From: KANEKO, HISASHI; MATSUDA, YOSHIHARU
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 021254/0791 →