DISK DEVICE AND ASPIRATION FILTER USED THEREFOR

• US 20100321821A1
• Filed: 06/16/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: IWASE, Takayuki
• Application Number:
  US12/817,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20100321821A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 360/97.02
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/1486 Control/regulation of the pressure, e.g. the pressure inside the housing of a drive

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a disk device includes a housing configured to contain therein a disk-shaped recording medium, a drive section configured to rotate the recording medium, a head configured to subject the recording medium to information processing, and an aspiration filter arranged inside the housing, including a casing including an inner side portion facing the recording medium, and an outer side portion positioned on the opposite side of the recording medium with respect to the inner side portion, and containing therein adsorbent configured to adsorb a substance in air, an inlet port in the casing and configured to take outside air into the casing, and an exhaust port in the outer side portion and configured to discharge the outside air that has passed through the adsorbent to the inside of the disk device.

Claims

1. A disk device comprising:

a housing configured to contain therein a disk-shaped recording medium;

a driver configured to rotate the recording medium;

a head configured to subject the recording medium to information processing; and

an aspiration filter in the housing, comprising a casing comprising an inner side portion facing the recording medium, and an outer side portion on the opposite side of the recording medium with respect to the inner side portion, and containing therein an adsorbent configured to adsorb a substance in air, an inlet port in the casing and configured to take outside air into the casing, and an exhaust port in the outer side portion and configured to discharge the outside air that has passed through the adsorbent to the inside of the disk device.

2. The disk device of claim 1, wherein the casing of the aspiration filter comprises an inner side wall facing the recording medium, an outer side wall comprising the exhaust port on the opposite side of the recording medium with respect to the inner side wall, and a bottom wall comprising the inlet port.

3. The disk device of claim 2, wherein the aspiration filter comprises a cover with air permeability, configured to cover the exhaust port.

4. The disk device of claim 1, wherein the casing of the aspiration filter comprises an exhaust side partition wall between the inlet port and the exhaust port.

5. The disk device of claim 2, wherein the casing of the aspiration filter comprises a top opening facing the bottom wall, a cover with air permeability, configured to cover the top opening, and an outer surface cover configured to cover the cover and the outer side wall with a gap, and to define the exhaust port at an end portion of the outer side wall.

6. The disk device of claim 5, wherein the casing of the aspiration filter comprises an adsorption layer facing the cover on an inner surface of the outer surface cover.

7. An aspiration filter used for a disk device comprising a disk-shaped recording medium, comprising:

a casing comprising an inner side portion facing the recording medium, and an outer side portion on the opposite side of the recording medium with respect to the inner side portion, and containing therein adsorbent configured to adsorb a substance in air;

an inlet port in the casing and configured to take outside air into the casing; and

an exhaust port in the outer side portion and configured to discharge the outside air that has passed through the adsorbent to the inside of the disk device.