Patent ID: 8363360

Claim:
A disk drive with adhesively bonded pivot-bearing assembly, said disk drive comprising: a head for accessing a disk; a suspension for supporting said head; a carriage coupled to said suspension; a pivot-bearing assembly housed in a hole of said carriage that is configured to rotate in such a way that said carriage is configured to oscillate; an adhesive between said pivot-bearing assembly and an inner circumferential surface of said hole for bonding said pivot-bearing assembly with said carriage; and an adhesion inhibitor disposed on the same surface as said adhesive for controlling a region of adhesion wherein said adhesion inhibitor is an agent that repels said adhesive selected from the group consisting of a fluoride-based water-repellent agent, a fluoride-based oil-repellent agent, and a combination of a fluoride-based water-repellent agent and a fluoride-based oil-repellent agent.