Disk drive including multi-stage environmental diffusion buffer

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1994-11-08

2000-07-11

Evans, Jefferson

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Record transport with head stationary during transducing

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G11B 3314

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060881909

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for providing a relatively large, multi-chamber fluid buffer between the interior of the drive and the surrounding external environment. The large fluid buffer is provided by a plurality of channels and chambers stamped into the cover of the disk drive, through which channels and chambers fluid must diffuse in order to enter or exit the drive.

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"Air Filtration System For A Small Rigid File," IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 28 No. 10 Mar. 1986, pp. 4473-4474.

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