Patent ID: 11869541
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method for unloading a head stack assembly (HSA) from a recording-disk media stack, the method comprising:
actuating means rotating the HSA radially outward from a data area of the recording-disk media stack onto a load/unload (LUL) ramp, the LUL ramp comprising:
an inner end positioned over the recording-disk media stack and an outer end positioned outside of the recording-disk media stack; and
in a direction from the inner end to the outer end:
a first segment having a non-horizontal first slope, and
a second segment adjacent to the first segment and having a different non-horizontal second slope;
wherein the steepness of the first slope is greater than the steepness of the second slope.