HEAD LIFTER FOR DISK DRIVE

摘要

An improved head lifting mechanism for a hard disk drive which lifts miltiple heads away from the top and bottom surfaces of disks. Two opposing lifter arms are used with one end of a first lifter arm extending between a head arm and the top surface of a disk while one end of the other lifter arm extends between another head arm and the bottom surface of a disk. The head arms are biased away from each other by a spring to separate the heads from the disk. An electromagnet pulls the lifter arms towards each other during operation of the disk drive so that the heads are not separated from the disks.