US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 3 for "Hard disk drive spoiler with top disk flow mitigation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,447, issued on March 3, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive spoiler with top disk flow mitigation" was invented by Gakuto Takami (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Hirono (Chigasaki, Japan) and Takaaki Deguchi (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upstream spoiler for a hard disk drive (HDD) includes a top fin configured to cover a radial gap between the top fin and a top disk medium of an HDD to inhibit gas/air flow to a top surface of the top disk through the gap. The spoiler may further include a middle fin adjacent the top fin and a mounting structure configured for mounti...