Manufacturing method of base and manufacturing method of disk drive device
View Patent ↗Embodiments of the present invention help to effectively suppress vibration of the disk in a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with low density gas sealed therein, and securely prevent leakage of the low density gas from the base. In an embodiment, helium gas is sealed in a hermetically sealed enclosure of an HDD, and a shroud is formed integrally with a base. In manufacturing the base, a magnetic disk facing surface of the shroud is shaped by cutting after die-casting. This accomplishes a small and precise size of the gap between the magnetic disk facing surface and the circumferential edge of the disk. Cutting the shroud formed independently from the exterior walls, which ensure the hermeticity with the shroud, suppresses the vibration of the magnetic disk and eliminates the necessity of cutting of the inner surfaces of the exterior walls for the purpose of suppression of the vibration to reduce the risk of helium leakage.
1. A method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed enclosure for a hard disk drive; the method comprising:
forming a casting comprising a bottom, said bottom comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, an exterior wall standing from the bottom so as to surround the periphery of the bottom to ensure hermeticity of said enclosure, said exterior wall and said inner surface of said bottom forming a first inner cavity, wherein a portion of said first inner cavity is formed to be located proximate a radial edge of a magnetic disk, and
forming a shroud which is distant from the exterior wall and within said first inner cavity; and
removing at least a part of the shroud without altering said first inner cavity, forming a second cavity between said exterior wall and said shroud.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first inner cavity formed by the casting is maintained without disrupting continuity of the exterior wall.
3. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein a whole area of the disk facing surface is removed by cutting.
4. The manufacturing method according to claim 1 , wherein the disk facing surface stands vertical from a bottom surface of the bottom.