Patent ID: 9418709
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: B25G,G11B,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of reducing contamination in a cleanroom assembly environment during assembly of a hard disk drive, comprising steps of: manually locking a removable tool onto the hard disk drive being assembled, the removable tool including a handle assembly defining a proximal end and a distal end such that the proximal end, in use, is further away from the hard disk drive being assembled than is the distal end, the removable tool including a positive locking assembly; carrying out at least one assembly step on the hard disk drive with the positive locking assembly locked thereon, the at least one assembly step being carried out without manually touching the hard disk drive being assembled; and unlocking the positive locking assembly and removing the removable tool from the hard disk drive being assembled.