INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE
An information storage device that includes: a housing; a disc-shaped recording medium to record data thereon, rotating along a disc surface to generate a wind inside the housing; a head capable of recording and/or reproducing data on and/or from the recording medium; an arm holding the head on its tip end and held by a rotary shaft, the arm rotating about the rotary shaft to move the head along the disc surface; a coil including multiple turns in a plane where the arm rotates, and receiving current supply, the coil fixed to the opposite end of the arm; a magnet generating magnetic field to act on the coil; and an airflow adjusting plate placed adjacent and upstream to the coil along the wind generated by rotation of the recording medium, extending in the plane where the coil includes turns and adjusting flow of the wind to travel along the coil.
1 . An information storage device comprising:
a housing;
a recording medium on which information is recorded, the recording medium having a disc shape, housed in the housing, and rotating along a disc surface to generate a wind inside the housing;
a head capable of recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from the recording medium;
an arm holding the head on a tip end thereof and held by a rotary shaft, the arm rotating about the rotary shaft to move the head along the disc surface of the recording medium;
a coil including multiple turns in a plane where the arm rotates, and receiving current supply, the coil being fixed to an end of the arm opposite to the tip end across the rotary shaft;
a magnet generating a magnetic field to act on the coil; and
an airflow adjusting plate placed at a position adjacent and upstream to the coil along the wind generated by rotation of the recording medium, the airflow adjusting plate extending in the plane where the coil includes turns and adjusting a flow of the wind to travel along the coil.
2 . The information storage device according to claim 1 , further comprising a guide placed at a position further upstream to the airflow adjusting plate along the wind, and directing the wind to the airflow adjusting plate and the coil.