Showa Denko Assigned Patent

Showa Denko K.K., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,322,180) developed by Sueoka, Yoshihito, and Fukushima, Masato, Chiba, Japan, for a “storage apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage apparatus includes a disk-shaped recording medium having a surface, a motor configured to drive and rotate the recording medium, a head configured to read information from and write information to the recording medium, a ramp mechanism configured to move the head from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a head receded position, and a ramp retracting mechanism configured to move the ramp mechanism from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a ramp retracted position. Each of the head receded position and the ramp retracted position is outside a range of the recording medium in a plan view viewed from above the recording medium in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording medium.”

The patent application was filed on July 7, 2021 (17/305,414).