Patent ID: 9601161
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G11B

Claim:
1. A wrap capable of being metallically sealed to itself at one or more locations to form a wrapped hard disk drive, wherein the wrap consists essentially of: an outwardly exposed adhesive layer facilitating ready adherence of the wrap to the external surface of an enclosed hard disk drive housing comprising a base and a cover enclosed around internal components for facilitating reading and recording of data at a desired location on at least one disk contained within the housing; an optional outwardly exposed protective layer; at least one metallic layer interposed between the outwardly exposed adhesive layer and the optional outwardly exposed protective layer, if present; and a fusible metal alloy adjacent at least a portion of at least one side of the at least one metallic layer, wherein the fusible metal alloy is outwardly exposed at one or more locations where the wrap is capable of being metallically sealed to itself when forming the wrapped hard disk drive.