Shipping comb usable with a head stack

Details Shipping comb usable with a head stack Shipping comb usable with a head stack

2007-01-10

2010-11-16

Banks, Derris H (Department: 3729)

Metal working

Method of mechanical manufacture

Electrical device making

C029S603020, C029S603050, C029S729000, C029S739000, C360S097010

Reexamination Certificate

active

07832083

ABSTRACT:
A shipping comb combined with a head stack assembly (HSA) which includes sliders recording data onto or reading data from disks, suspensions having the sliders thereon, and end-taps at front ends of the suspensions, the shipping comb preventing the HSA from being damaged, the shipping comb including a body unit having protruding suspension spacers which are each inserted between middle portions of a pair of suspensions having a pair of sliders facing each other to prevent a collision of the middle portions of the pair of suspensions, and a head unit having protruding end-tap spacers inserted between the end-taps of the pair of the suspensions to prevent a collision of the front ends of the pair of suspensions, and connected to a front end of the body unit with a hinge.

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