HDA headload carriage tooling

Details HDA headload carriage tooling HDA headload carriage tooling

1993-11-16

1996-07-30

Underwood, Donald W.

Material or article handling

Load carried along a horizontal linear path

Having gripper means

2941031, 2941191, 294 655, 901 40, B66B 104

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055405428

ABSTRACT:
A tool that loads magnetic heads onto the disk of a hard disk drive. The tool has a first arm which has an alignment block and a plurality of fingers. The first arm cooperates with a second arm which has an alignment slot and a plurality of second fingers. The arms are coupled to an actuator which moves the arms in opposite directions to separate the first fingers from the second fingers. Movement of the arms also causes a first alignment surface of the alignment block to engage a second alignment surface of the alignment slot. The alignment surfaces are essentially parallel with the fingers and insure that the fingers translate relative to each other without any relative rotational movement.

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patent: 4482289 (1984-11-01), Inaba et al.
patent: 4696501 (1987-09-01), Webb

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