Patent ID: 8061155

Claim:
A temperature control apparatus for a hard disk drive, the apparatus comprising: a thermal chamber configured to receive the hard disk drive; a heat conductive heat source or heat conductive receiver or both a heat conductive heat source and heat conductive receiver provided within the thermal chamber and arranged so as to be above and below and spaced apart from the disk drive when the disk drive is provided in the thermal chamber; an oscillatory air movement generator that generates air movement within a region above and below the disk drive in a space between the heat conductive heat source or heat conductive receiver or both the heat conductive heat source and heat conductive receiver within the thermal chamber and said hard disk drive when said hard disk drive is received in the thermal chamber, and wherein the air movement is a non-mass flow air movement within the chamber, and wherein when the oscillatory air movement generator generates air movement and when the disk drive is received within the thermal chamber, there is substantially no aggregate mass flow of air into or out of the thermal chamber, facilitating heat transfer between the heat conductive heat source or heat conductive receiver or both the heat conductive heat source and heat conductive receiver and said hard disk drive.