Patent ID: 9275677
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B23P,G11B,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method for removing a top cover of a hard disk drive, the method comprising: securing a hard disk drive in a nest assembly; pressing a clamp coupled to the nest assembly against a top cover of the secured hard disk drive such that the top cover maintains contact with a hard drive body of the hard disk drive; removing a screw fastening the top cover to the hard drive body at a screw location of the top cover and the hard drive body; rotating the secured hard disk drive from a first position to a second position; purging and evacuating, with a purge and vacuum assembly, particles from the screw location of the pressed top cover and the hard drive body of the hard disk drive in the second position; releasing the top cover; and removing, with the purge and vacuum assembly, the released top cover from the hard drive body.