Patent ID: 6057989
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An actuator armset for a computer disk drive, the armset having a body defining a bore for rotating the armset about an actuator shaft and multiple actuator arms attached to the body for positioning respective transducers radially across one or more disks of the drive,wherein the actuator arms are prefabricated from a first alloy of Al or Mg containing 62 to 100 wt. % Be, andwherein the body of the armset is formed by a molding operation with the prefabricated actuator arms being positioned in place during the molding operation so that the material forming the body bonds the actuator arms in place into a single piece unit as the body is formed, wherein the material forming the body has a different wt. % of Be than the first alloy.