Patent ID: 8356384
Filing Date: 2013-01-22
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. A clean and purge tool comprising: a main body; a nest assembly rotatably attached to the main body and configured to stow an open hard disk drive, the nest assembly configured to rotate from an upward facing position to a downward facing position to dislodge particles from a media clamp of the hard disk drive when the hard disk drive is stowed in the nest assembly; a cover hingedly attached to the nest assembly and configured to enclose the hard disk drive when the hard disk drive is stowed in the nest assembly; and a spindle clamp assembly mounted on the cover and having a vacuum tube extending through a hole in the cover, the vacuum tube configured to encapsulate the media clamp when the cover encloses the hard disk drive, the spindle clamp assembly having an air purge nozzle extending into the vacuum tube, wherein the clean and purge tool is configured to dislodge particles from the media clamp when pulses of compressed gas are applied to the media clamp by a compressed gas source via the air purge nozzle and to evacuate the particles from the vacuum tube when a vacuum is applied to the vacuum tube by a vacuum source.