Seagate Assigned Patent

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,233,232) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and data storage device with a snubber supported on an actuator and having a distal edge configured to have differing arcuate portions."

The co-inventors are Chuen Buan Lee, Singapore, Choon Kiat Lim, Singapore, Xiong Liu, Singapore, and Jui Jing Lim, Singapore.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage apparatus and associated method is provided involving a data storage disc that is rotatable around a first axis. An actuator is rotatable around a second axis to operably position a data transfer member between an innermost radial location of the data storage disc and an outermost radial storage location of the data storage disc. A snubber is supported by the actuator and has a distal edge configured as being, in relation to a reference plane including the first axis and the second axis when the actuator is rotated to position the data transfer member at the innermost radial location, arcuate along a first radius on one side of the reference plane and arcuate along a second radius different than the first radius on the other side of the reference plane."

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2010 (12/762,075).