Patent ID: 7262939

Claim:
A hard disk drive, comprising: an enclosure having a cover that is removable; a media disk rotatably mounted to the enclosure; an actuator mounted to the enclosure for moving a transducer relative to the media disk for reading data from and writing data to the media disk; a voice coil motor mounted to the enclosure for moving the actuator, the voice coil motor having pole pieces and a magnet with a magnetic transition located between north and south pole portions of each pole piece; a spring assembly having a base mounted to the cover and a plurality of legs extending away from the base, such that one end of each leg is rigidly secured to the base, and an opposite end of each leg is free to load against the cover, and each leg having a contact portion spaced apart from the opposite end and in contact with one of the pole pieces for maintaining an orientation of said one of the pole pieces; wherein the spring assembly is spaced apart from the magnetic transition such that the spring assembly does not physically overlap the magnetic transition and there is no reduction in a flux density of the voice coil motor due to the presence of the spring assembly; and wherein one of the pole pieces has a recessed area on an exterior surface thereof located opposite the magnet, and only the legs of the spring assembly are seated in the recessed area.