Intri-Plex Assigned Patent

Intri-Plex Technologies, Inc., (no web site), Santa Barbara, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,165,578) developed by Dexter, David Django, Goleta, CA, Smith, Paul Wesley, Santa Barbara, CA, Sutton, Adam Donald, Pleasanton, CA, and Schmidt, Ryan John, Santa Barbara, CA, for a “swage mount for hard disk drives.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A swage mount is provided for attaching a head suspension assembly to a head actuator arm for a hard disk drive. The swage mount has a flange body with a thickness for providing clearance from the underlying disk. The swage mount may have a tip for in-plane movement. The tip may be `T` shaped. The tip has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the flange body for withstanding out-of-plane loads and for enhancing performance of the hard disk drive, for example, during reading/writing of data using the head. Mass properties of the swage mount, the twisting/bending yield load, modal frequency responses, and other performance metrics are analyzed to design the dimensions of the swage mount having favorable in-plane compliance and superior out-of-plane robustness.“

The patent application was filed on March 6, 2014 (14/199,621).