Patent ID: 6624966
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive comprising:a disk drive base; at least one rotatable disk including a disk surface extending to an outer disk edge, the disk surface includes a data annular region; a head stack assembly rotatably attached to the disk drive drive base in operable communication with the disk; and an airflow suppressor comb coupled to the disk drive base and stationary relative to the disk drive base during operation of the disk drive, the comb comprising: a comb body disposed adjacent to the outer disk edge; and at least one tine extending from the comb body along the data annular region of the disk surface for mitigating disk rotation induced airflow upon the head stack assembly adjacent to the disk surface wherein the disk includes a non-data annular region radially interior to the data annular region, the tine includes a distal portion sized and configured to contact the non-data annular region of the disk upon deflection of the tine.