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Richmond Traffic Operations Center expands
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) recently expanded the Richmond Traffic Operations Center (TOC) in Chester. The size of the center's video wall was doubled, allowing staff to better monitor traffic in VDOT's Fredericksburg District, a portion of I-95 in the Hampton Roads District and all 14 counties and 4 cities in the Richmond District, including Henrico.
The changes also improved the center's backup generator capability and lighting to increase reliability during inclement weather and other emergencies; and reconfigured the work area to accommodate staff needed to dispatch units of the Safety Service Patrols.
The TOC operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week dispatching and coordinating functions for transportation emergencies within the 26 counties in central Virginia. Another significant responsibility is updating of accident, work zone, and road weather information, which flows to the public through VDOT's 511 system. Staff at the Richmond TOC operate and maintain 54 traffic cameras, 15 permanent overhead variable message signs, 13 trailer-mounted variable message signs, six highway advisory radio sites and 10 pavement sensors.
For more information, visit http://www.virginiadot.org/travel/smart-traffic-center-richmond.asp.
Holman student named Miss Va. Coed Junior Teen
Holman Middle School student Victoria Nguyen recently was named Miss Virginia American Coed Junior Teen after competing in the Miss Virginia American Coed pageant in Williamsburg. She was the youngest competitor in her division. Nguyen now will advance to represent Virginia at the 2015 Miss American Junior Teen Pageant at Walt Disney World in Florida in November. > Read more.
Companion Extraordinaire to honor veterans May 14
Companion Extraordinaire Home Care and Skilled Services will be honoring veterans and current military members May 14 at 11 a.m. The event will take place at 5311 Lakeside Avenue.
Companion Extraordinaire dedicated a hall in its new Lakeside office as a "Wall of Honor" and will be presenting 13 military service men and women with certificates as well as placing their service photos on the wall.
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Henrico student among 3 vying for national $10,000 scholarship
Public vote open through Friday to select winner
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Henrico resident Haley Malloy is one of three national finalists for a $10,000 scholarship, whose winner will be determined by the vote of the public.
Malloy is a finalist for The Goddard School Anthony A. Martino Scholarship, which is open annually to any high school junior or senior who graduated from a Goddard School pre-kindergarten or kindergarten program. Applicants are evaluated based upon the work ethic and perseverance they have demonstrated – two key characteristics of Martino, the founder of the Goddard School franchise system. > Read more.
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More than monkey business
Disneynature's 'Monkey Kingdom' is its strongest yet
"Did you know monkeys could swim?" asks Tina Fey in Monkey Kingdom. While she's asking, a toque macaque (a two foot-long monkey with red-white fur and great hair) breast-strokes under the surface of a pond, yanking out lily pad flowers by her teeth and dragging them ashore to munch later.
Turns out monkeys can swim. And slide down telephone poles. And do the thing from Flashdance where you bring down a cascade of water on your head and shake it off in slow-motion.
All will happen in Monkey Kingdom, the eighth film in nine years from Disneynature, Disney's wildlife documentary outlet. > Read more.
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Relax this holiday weekend with Fridays Uncorked at Southern Season – taste wines from the Roman Empire! Or at James River Cellars who is hosting "Experience Virginia" – sample Virginia wine, beer, cider and mead. And what goes better with wine than strawberries – an annual tradition in Varina, the Gallmeyer Farms' Strawberry Fields Festival is tomorrow. Other fun happenings this weekend include: "A Little Princess" at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen; weekly dance at American Legion Post 125; and National Theatre Live's "Man and Superman" at the University of Richmond. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
CAT Theatre announces 2015-16 schedule, new partnership
Final performance of 2015 season – 'Quartet' – starts this week
CAT Theatre's final show of its 51st season – Quartet by Ronald Harwood – will open May 22 and run through June 6. It will be the show's Richmond-area premiere.
The theatre also announced its four-show schedule for its 52nd season, which will begin in October and continue into June 2016, and announced a new partnership with The Bifocals Theatre Project, an outreach program into senior communities in the Richmond region. > Read more.
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The better-than-you'd-think-it'd-be American Masters two-part documentary on Woody Allen that premiered on PBS last November portrayed a Woody gone not a little bit soft. Oh sure, ask him and he'd tell you that life is stupid because we're all going to wind up dead and that existence is absurd; all that "real adolescent, fashionable pessimism," as Diane Keaton's character in Manhattan puts it. Last night, at 92nd Street Y, Woody (what, I should refer to him as "Allen"?) joined his old buddy Dick Cavett onstage in front of a packed house, moderated by the Columbia film professor Annette Insdorf, to talk about one of the softest subjects you could have found: radio. (The discussion was followed by a screening of 1987's Radio Days, one of the most explicitly nostalgic of this unrepentant romantic's films.) So, you basically had two guys in their mid-70s—for all the doom and gloom, Woody is only 76, and you have to stifle laughter when you learn, in the documentary, that this famous hypochondriac's parents lived to 94 and 100—talking about the good ol' days when, as Woody put it, "you turned [the radio] on when you got up in the morning and it was with you all day." You know, like Twitter.
They talked about Jack Benny, Woody saying that he's "still great," the "t" over-articulated in his style. Insdorf noted that Benny, whose original last name was not Benny, is the only person to have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for work in three different media: film, television, and radio. They talked about Orson Welles. At one point, betraying his formidable learnedness, Woody referred to the "propensity of the medium." They talked about Bob and Ray, and about Fred Allen—no relation: Allen was not his original last name (it was Sullivan). They talked about the most recognizable voice of them all, Arthur Godfrey, whose radio theme song, they did not mention, was "Seems Like Old Times," which is sung at the end of Annie Hall.
They also talked of their shared love of magic (shared also by Welles and Cavett's old boss Johnny Carson). Cavett spoke poignantly of growing up in Nebraska—Lincoln, not Omaha, as he corrected Woody after Woody referred to Omaha for the second time (shades of this)—and getting magic tricks in the mail from Max Holden's and wondering, "someday, will I be in New York City?" ("I did get to New York: Max was dead, and the shop was closed.") Cavett recalled listening to the radio drama series Grand Central Station and imagining boarding a train bound for Grand Central Station, and proceeded to take out a piece of paper and read from the introduction to the show:
Drawn by the magnetic force of the fantastic metropolis, day and night great trains rush toward the Hudson River, sweep down its eastern bank for 140 miles, flash briefly by the long red row of tenement houses south of 125th Street, dive with a roar into the two-and-one-half-mile tunnel which burrows beneath the glitter and swank of Park Avenue, and then [and here Cavett paused while some older audience members said the words with him] Grand Central Station! Crossroads of a million private lives! Gigantic stage on which are played a thousand dramas daily!
It was a poignant reminder that there actually were more unlikely places from which to shoot to success than middle-class postwar Midwood. Cavett was the better magician; Woody said he practiced for untold hours in front of a three-way mirror but didn't get good. "I never did anything for anybody," he remarked, in a line just begging to be yanked out and extrapolated from. "It was the mirror and me."
People laughed at many of Woody's not-funny lines, and laughed extremely hard at his somewhat-funny lines. You got the sense that what he always said was true: that his jokes are contrived things; that, yes, he's incredibly good at them, and can write jokes at will and can improvise and be hilarious at will, but it's not actually his default setting. For large portions of the discussion, which lasted over an hour, Woody was, in effect, the straight man to Cavett's funny man. Perhaps the line of Woody's that got the biggest laugh was when he imagined Cavett's childhood, "growing up in the dark, Nebraska, Omaha—goyim." I laughed, but it felt fake, playing to the crowd. You could tell when he was being genuinely funny, as when Cavett recalled a time the two had gone to the Stage Deli and Woody, adopting a Yiddish accent, insisted that Cavett "jus' try dis sahndveech." "I know you remember that," Cavett said to Woody. "I remember the sandwich," Woody replied. That is Woody humor. It's when he was trying.
We forget that "Woody Allen" is schtick; that he bought his first pair of thick, black-framed glasses because a guy he wrote jokes for wore them; that Allen is his given first name. At the end of a long day, he is the avuncular man with mostly white hair and rumpled corduroy pants calmly sitting on a stage and, as always, serenading us with the wonderful news that it seems like old times. Great work if you can get it.
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my blood pressure is generally somewhere in the same range (110/70-120/80) for most of pregnancy (and even slightly lower at the beginning/when i'm not preg) but in the last month or so it has gone up to 130/90 BOTH times. my m/w was not concerned at all and both times i have had healthy pregnancies, labors, and babies. hth.
I mean sure, I would want to know if something were wrong, but this seems like it's just likely to make me more stressed out and make it go up, you know?
I'm exactly the same way. Plus sometimes it's even higher because I have white coat syndrome. My midwife wouldn't even blink an eye at your numbers especially if it went back down by the end of the appt. I know my blood pressure goes up just from being nervous about what my numbers are going to be.
As long as I'm not spilling protein, excessive swelling, etc she's fine with it. I do check my BP pressure at home just in case and report my numbers to her as well because they are significantly lower at home. My midwife from my last pregnancy had me do the same thing. Take it at home if possible and see if it's lower at home. Maybe they'll be okay with you doing this if they threaten induction?
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18.08.06 - Bolton barmy Amir Khan will give the Trotters a lift tomorrow in the opening clash of their 2006/2007 Premiership campaign against Tottenham at the Reebok Stadium. The Olympic Silver Medallist will feature in half-time activities to publicise his first fight of the new boxing season on Sports Network's mega-show at the Bolton Arena on Saturday 2nd September..
And Khan is sure that manager Sam Allardyce and his men will begin the season with a win over Spurs.
"I'm looking forward to the new season and going to as many Bolton games as I can depending on where and when I fight," said the 19-year-old star.
"I'm particularly looking forward to the game against Spurs and it looks like a tough one but with the return of Nicky Hunt, Kelvin Davies and new lad Quinton Fortune I reckon we will come away with a 2-1 win,"
"Big Sam's the main man at the club and he comes to most of my fights and I reckon with the quality of the team that he has now, this could be the year that he takes us to win the title,"
Unbeaten in eight fights with six knockouts, Khan is looking to put on a dazzling display for his home fans in his first fight in Bolton since making his professional debut there last year.
He added, "Just like the team have put in plenty of pre-season training, me and my trainer Oliver Harrison have been working away in the gym on plenty of new things and improving on the basics to begin my campaign for the new season that will see me challenge for my first championship title."
Clinton Woods v Glen Johnson III, for the IBF World Light-Heavyweight Championship, headlines a superb show that also features the Vacant WBA World Light-Welterweight title between Souleymane M'Baye and Raul Balbi plus Takaloo v Michael Jennings for the WBU World Welterweight title.
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In the no-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offers organ transplants...for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by THE REPO MAN. By fusing ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and BLADE RUNNER, this futuristic tale of horror modernizes the rock opera genre with original music and rich, dark production design.
This rock opera boasts an entirely original soundtrack that blends equal parts goth and punk rock to form an eerie and powerful musical narrative. All of the actors performed their own songs, and the music was provided by an all-star lineup that features performances from Richard Patrick (Filter), Steven Perkins (Jane's Addiction), Clown (Slipknot), Ray Luzier (Army of Anyone), Brian Young (David Lee Roth's band), Richard Fortus (Guns & Roses), Sonny Moore (First to Last), David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Daniel Ash (Love & Rockets), Blasko (Ozzy Osborne), Tommy Clefetus (Rob Zombie's band), Melora Creager (Rasputina). Also lending her voice to the soundtrack is the edgy pop star Poe. Japanese musician and composer Yoshiki Haysahi (of the legendary rock band X-Japan) co-produced the music with Joe Bishara to create one of the most diverse soundtracks in movie history.
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Going to try to bribe an official and get into Alaska without a passport!
With all due seriousness, I would not fart around with the border.
The US is at an elevated alert level, and I have known of people who have, and you could find yourself with a US travel ban and possibly even a Interpol record.
If you do make it onto US soil, the Canadian border officials have sent people back across the border if it was obvious they enter the US illegally.
Way back in the 90's (ie. pre 9/11) a friend's brother was visiting from France with another friend. This friend did not have a US visa. But went to Detroit anyway. Upon returning the Canadian officials sent the car back across the border, where the car was impounded and all 3 of the kids arrested.
IIRC Hyder does not have an official US border patrol office/gate, but the Canadian side does.
If you do not have a US Green Card, NEXXUS card, or Passport, I would not do it!
At the end of the day, with a Canadian D/L they will let you back into Canada, but very possibly not until AFTER the US Customs/Border are done with you.
This just might be a brain fart from a Canadian who is a legal resident of the US.
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New files show Hussein's paranoia regarding Israel
New documents taken possession of after the Iraq invasion are providing an unprecedentedly close look at the decisions, life, and mind of late dictator Saddam Hussein. And the leitmotif, alternately grim and darkly humorous, is that Hussein believed Israel to be behind everything—even the stuff they didn't do!
• When Iran launched its first air strikes in 1980 to kick off the decade-long Iran-Iraq War, Hussein insisted to his advisers, "This is Israel." It wasn't.
• Hussein worried that Israel would attack his nuclear facility at Osirak. Less than a year later, Israel did.
• To protect that facility, he had it fortified with many sandbags. The sandbags were no match for Israel's, er, bombs.
• Hussein's paranoia led him to execute the Iranian journalist Farzad Bazoft for allegedly spying for Israel, a fiasco that led to Britain's withdrawing its ambassador and, indirectly, the first Gulf War.
• "Once Iraq walks out victorious, there will not be any Israel," Hussein said. "Technically, they are right in all of their attempts to harm Iraq." No word on whether Israel has accepted the dead man's vindication as a compliment.
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OCT. 13, 2006--Rocks rock the world of University of Wisconsin-River Falls geology Professor William Cordua. So much so that one day he dreamed of creating a teaching guide about the state's rocks, minerals, and other geological structures so that other people could grow a passion as deep as his for geology.
Now, 10 years later, Cordua has completed that dream. His Web site, Mineralogy in Wisconsin, receives thousands of visits each year and lists all the different types of minerals that can be found in the state.
Sparkling diamonds, lustrous pearls, gleaming gold, or shimmering topaz all have one thing in common, says Cordua. They have all been found in Wisconsin. Not necessarily discovered here, he says, but they have been located in different counties throughout the state.
"My Web site is basically a one-stop shop to learn about minerals and rocks," said Cordua. On the Web site, visitors can find which counties possess each mineral, along with descriptions of the minerals.
Pictures also serve as a useful learning tool, Cordua says, so he has included some of his photographs as well as photos from other photographers by permission.
Cordua has compiled all the descriptions and has very thorough information as well as a bibliography citing his sources.
"I literally found everything I could about Wisconsin minerals," said Cordua. So after 10 years of working on this project, which was completed officially in 2004, he has succeeded in using the site not only as a teaching tool to his students but also to other students, teachers, rockhounds and others across the world.
The Web site has been receiving a lot of visitors since it was created. Cordua says this is probably due to the fact that geology teachers assign students a certain unique mineral and they are directed to his Web site through a search engine.
Cordua says he has several goals for his Web site: keeping it current; adding more pictures of minerals so people can easily recognize them; and having some fun links. For example, there are links to amateur geological clubs throughout the state so that someone who finds a rock or mineral can help get it identified. There is also a list of Wisconsin geological attractions, minerals first reported in the state, mineral uses, and more.
Although the site has not won any awards directly, Cordua has received a couple recent awards for newsletters and journals he has written on specific geological topics, including a second place in the Midwest and a seventh place nationally.
So if you think you've found gold in your backyard, but aren't really sure, check out the Wisconsin Mineralogy Database at http://www.uwrf.edu/~wc01/welcome.html .
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Ryan Verdugo's big league debut Tuesday night eerily resembled Jonathan Sanchez's final start a day earlier for the Royals. That's not what Kansas City was hoping for. Verdugo, a 25-year-old left-hander, gave up six runs on eight hits and two walks without making it through two innings of a 9-6 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Sanchez gave up seven runs in 1 1-3 innings in a loss Monday to the Mariners and was designated for assignment Tuesday. After retiring the first two batters, Verdugo gave up four straight hits, including Justin Smoak's two-run homer. He failed to get out of the second when he surrendered three more runs on four hits. ''Ryan got the two outs and I thought `Here we go,' and then it kind of caved in on him,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said. ''When he got hurt it was on pitches up. He's basically a two-pitch pitcher and he was able to throw his curveball but he was leaving the fastball up.'' Verdugo and Sanchez were the two pitchers the Royals acquired from the S...
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15;26 the higher-dose specimen (whose oxidation is controlled by O2– diffusion) is much more resistant to oxidation than is the lower-dose specimen (whose oxidation is controlled by Cr3+ diffusion). Another surprising observation is that microanalytical measurements (by energy-dispersive x-ray analysis) demonstrates that the yttrium in the scale is located almost exclusively in the oxide grain boundaries without detectable presence of second phases.27 It is tempting to speculate that, in the higher-dose specimens, the implanted yttrium is present in sufficient concentration along the oxide grain boundaries to inhibit the Cr3+ ion diffusion that would otherwise select these short-circuiting paths, and so the rate-controlling oxidation mechanism is then shifted to the slower O2– diffusion.
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Three women died and one has been hospitalized after a huge chunk of soil fell on them while mining clay in Dowa on Tuesday.
Dowa Police Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Richard Kaponda, confirmed the incident to Malawi News Agency (Mana) and identified the deceased as Tifedi Bekete, 25, Evelline Kapsya, 21, and Maganizo Jakobo, 18, all from Traditional Authority Chiwere in the district.
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A suspension load beam used for attachment to a slider assembly and an actuation arm in a disc drive for data storage has a rigid middle beam section comprising a rigid bottom layer, a rigid top layer and a composite core layer sandwiched between the bottom layer and the top layer. A method for fabricating a vibration resistant mechanical member used a disc drive subject to high frequency motion operations is also disclosed. The method involves making an integral laminate structure and fabricating the mechanical member from the integral laminate structure. The integral laminate structure has A rigid bottom layer, a composite core layer on top of the rigid bottom layer, and a rigid top layer on top of the core layer so that the composite core layer is sandwiched between the rigid bottom layer and the rigid top layer.
1. A suspension load beam for data storage devices comprising:
a front beam section for connecting to a slider assembly carrying a transducer head;
a rear beam section for connecting to an actuation arm; and
a middle beam section located between the front beam section and the rear beam section, wherein the middle beam section comprises a bottom layer, a top layer and a composite core layer sandwiched between the bottom layer and the top layer, wherein the composite core layer comprises first non-metallic material interspersed and embedded within a second non-metallic material and is coextensive with the bottom layer, and wherein the first material is a viscoelastic damping material and the second material is a rigid material, and the first and second materials are both polymeric materials.
2. The suspension load beam of
3. The suspension load beam of
4. A suspension load beam for data storage devices comprising:
a bottom layer;
a top layer; and
a composite core layer sandwiched between the bottom layer and the top layer, wherein the composite core layer comprises a stable composite of a first non-metallic material embedded and interspersed within a second non-metallic material, wherein the first material is a viscoelastic damping material and the second material is a rigid material, and the first and second materials are both polymeric materials, wherein the composite core has a thickness of 5 mil inches (0.005 in. or 0.127 mm) or less.
5. The suspension load beam of
6. The suspension load beam of
The present invention relates to a suspension load beam in a disc drive, such as a hard drive using a magnetic storage medium. More particularly, the present invention relates to a disc drive suspension load beam using a damping material to reduce high frequency vibration.
Disc drives are one of the key components to store data in a computer system. In a basic hard disc drive, data is stored in a magnetic medium formed on a surface of a rotating disc. The hard disc drive reads and writes information stored on tracks on a disc bearing the magnetic medium. To do this, a read/write head that includes a transducer carried by a slider assembly is placed in close proximity to the surface of the magnetic medium. The slider is attached through a gimbal system to a distal end of suspension load beam which includes the suspension load beam. The proximal end of the suspension load beam is attached to an actuator arm which is rotatably controlled by a voice coil motor (VCM). The disc drive system sends control signals to the voice coil motor to move the actuator arm and the suspension supporting the read/write head across the disc in a radial direction to the target track. The positioning of the read/write head over the magnetic medium is controlled by a closed loop circuit for better accuracy. In addition to the active controlling signal from the closed loop circuit, the precise positioning of the read/write head is affected by a dynamic balance between two vertical forces. The first force is a gram load applied by the suspension load beam to bias the head toward the disc surface. The second force is an air bearing lifting force caused by the fast motion between the slider and the disc surface. Roughly, the looped control system controls tracking (i.e., radial positioning of the head) while the dynamic balance determines fly-height (i.e., head-media spacing). However, as the areal density of concentric data tracks on magnetic discs continues to increase (that is, the size of data tracks and radial spacing between data tracks decrease), hard disc systems also use active control for more precise vertical positioning of the head.
One of the most significant adversarial conditions affecting precise positioning of the read/write head in a disc drive system is vibration, particularly that caused by head suspension resonance. Many types of vibration exist in a disc drive system to cause fluctuation of the magnetic read/write head positioning. However, vibrations that occur at frequencies far away from a resonant mode (e.g., less than one third of the first resonant mode) are usually less serious concerns. In contrast, vibrations that cause resonance of the system are often much more serious obstacles in improving areal density and rotation speed of the disc drive system. Every closed loop servomotor system has a predetermined bandwidth in which resonances occurring within the bandwidth degrade the performance of the servomotor system. In a hard disc drive system, for example, windage (fluid turbulence caused by airflow) and head vibration occur at a frequency close to a resonant mode of the suspension load beam and thus cause the suspension head assembly to resonate at large amplitudes. Windage and head vibration, however, are not the only sources that cause resonance in a hard disc drive system. In today's high-speed hard disc drives, the servomotor that moves the parts at high frequency may also cause resonance. In addition, when it is desired to position the magnetic head and a specific track location, the voice coil motor is driven by a voltage that has a very short rise time to accelerate the actuator very quickly. Once the actuator is in motion, the voltage levels off and the actuator approaches a constant velocity. As the actuator approaches the target location on the disc, a similar, but inverse abrupt voltage pattern is applied to the voice coil motor to stop the suspension actuator. This sequence of voltage change is best represented by a square wave, which is a superposition of many waves of different frequencies, according to Fourier transform. The operation of the servo system in a hard disc drive to move the suspension head assembly thus has inherent frequency components that may excite resonance.
Resonance degrades the performance of a disc drive in several ways. First, severe resonance, especially that of torsion or sway mode, may cause the magnetic read/write head to move away from the target track and thus result in data reading/writing error. Second, resonance in the vertical direction, such as that caused by resonance in bending mode, may cause fluctuations in the fly height of the read/write head to result in data error as well. In extreme cases, vertical fluctuations may even cause catastrophic damage of the disc drive due to direct contact between the head and the disc surface. Third, during resonance, the transducer element of the read/write head is forced to modulate, causing a significant decrease in the signal to noise ratio of the system and increase of the non-repeatable run-out (NRRO).
Significant efforts have been made to alleviate the problem of resonance. Various methods have been used. Optimization of the system is essentially a balance of several factors, often gaining on one aspect at a cost of sacrificing another, as commonly found for a spring-mass-damper system. A suspension load beam must be sufficiently stiff in order to be mechanically and the structurally stable. Unstable materials suffer change of physical dimension with time, so-called cold flow or creep. To maintain a sufficient stiffness of the suspension load beam, a stiff metal piece, such as stainless steel sheet material, is used to make at least part of the suspension load beam. In principle, stainless steel part of the load beams could be made thicker to increase the bending and torsion mode frequencies, but the greater mass significantly degrades the performance of the actuator assembly by increasing the inertia of the arm. An increased inertia will decrease the access time to position between data tracks and increase the current requirements necessary to move the voice coil motor and the suspension head assembly. These changes then cause other problems such as increased heat within the disc enclosure and increased power requirements. A thicker steel arm will also result in a higher mass assembly that will cause significant degradation of shock resistance of the disc drive system. Higher mass also leads to lowest stability. Although materials having higher stiffness/mass ratio than that of stainless steel do exist and have been experimented, solutions of this type have not become widely acceptable mainly due to high cost and low reliability issues. Other methods for increasing the stiffness of the suspension load beam without increasing the mass or switching to a more expensive material are also suggested. U.S. Pat. No. 5,408,372 to Karam, for example, uses a micro-stiffening technique to control resonance in the suspension system of a disc drive.
Another approach to reduce resonance of the suspension head system in a disc drive is to use dampers. U.S. Pat. No. 3,725,884 to Garfien shows a support arm on which the magnetic head is supported by a spring member and up and down motion of the magnetic head is damped by an additional leaf spring in rubbing contact with friction pads. U.S. Pat. No. 4,760,478 to Pal et al. uses a layer of damping material fixed to the top of the elongated flat load beam and a constraining member fixed in contact with the damping material to reduce the resonance. U.S. Pat. No. 6,297,933 to Khan et al. discloses a disc drive suspension load beam having a damping structure containing an organic damping material. The damping structure is attached in a load beam recess sized and shaped to limit exposure of organic damping material to the ambient atmosphere.
Dampers commonly used are damping structures attached to the suspension load beam. Dampers are believed to absorb vibration energy when repetitive deformation (caused by vibration) of a material is dissipated through internal energy losses, usually in the form of heat. One form of internal energy dissipation is through shear energy absorption in the layer of damping material. It has been known that materials that exhibit a large ratio of dynamic loss moduli to dynamic storage moduli, tan δ, tend to have high shear energy absorption and thus are good candidates for making dampers. An exemplary type of materials exhibit a large tan δ is viscoelastic materials, which when deformed, have a stress proportional to both the deformation and the rate of deformation. Viscoelastic materials also exhibit creep and relaxation behavior. Creep means that under constant stress the deformation increases in time. Relaxation means that under constant fixed deformation the stress decreases steadily in time. These properties generally relate closely to damping properties because they are opposite to that of a spring material which is known to preserve dynamic energy during motions without converting the energy into thermal energy.
A number of approaches have been taken to achieve material properties sufficient for damping purposes. Specialized formulations of cross-linking polymers have been developed which exhibit damping in specific applications. Epoxy formulations have been developed for damping vibrations in magnetic read/write heads, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,270,888. Acrylic copolymers for damping are commercially available in, for example, sheeting form. Silicone chemistries have been developed for damping, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,434,214 to Sutton et al. In addition, a composite damping material is suggested in U.S. Pat. No. 5,965,249, in which a highly viscous damping fluid is entrapped within the pores of a porous material (such as an expanded polymer, felt material, foam, fabric, metal, etc.). The patent further suggests attaching a piece of the composite damping material to a surface of a mechanical member in a disc drive to reduce vibration.
As suggested in U.S. Pat. No. 5,965,249, however, dampers used for reducing suspension head resonance are conventionally affixed separately on a surface (e.g., top surface) of the suspension load beam, typical using an adhesive, instead of being formed as an integral part of the suspension load beam. This is in line with the conventional concept of suspension damping in which the stainless steel part of the beam is considered the base structure to provide stiffness and mechanical integrity, while an add-on damper is considered to provide damping only. To achieve this goal, much effort has been made to provide a damper that does not cause significant structural mortification of the base structure.
In order to maximize the shear energy absorption in the damping material, elaborate designs of using a constraining member have been proposed. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,594,607 to Erpelding et al. discloses a laminated suspension having a stainless steel stiffener layer, a top constraining layer (which also functions as a conductor layer), and a viscoelastic dielectric damping layer, wherein the constraining layer has a pattern of land areas etched thereon to increase the shear energy absorption in the damping layer.
Using a different approach, U.S. Pat. No. 5,187,625 to Blaeser et al. proposes a head suspension load beam which incorporates a layer of damping material throughout the entire structure of the suspension to reduce the amplitude of all resonant modes of vibration. It is believed that because the point on the suspension structure at which maximum strain energy occurs may change for each mode of vibration, it is advantageous to distribute the damper throughout the entire structure in order to cover all possible vibration modes. However, the use of the damping material layer throughout the entire suspension structure is still in line with the conventional concept of suspension damping in which the base structure of stainless steel provides stiffness and mechanical integrity while the add-on damper provides damping.
In yet another different approach, alloys having high intrinsic damping properties have been proposed to replace the conventional stainless steel to make suspension load beams in a disc drive. An example of such alloys is found in U.S. Pat. No. 6,361,740.
At the same time, with the increasing demand for disc drives that are more reliable, quieter and faster, and have larger storage capacity (with increased areal density) and sometimes smaller overall disc size, there is an increasing need for a disc drive suspension system having better balanced optimization between several performance properties including damping property, stiffness and the structural integrity.
The present invention is a suspension load beam used for attachment to a slider assembly and an actuation arm in a disc drive for data storage. The suspension load beam has a front beam section connecting to a slider assembly carrying a transducer head, a rear beam section connecting to an actuation arm, and a rigid middle beam section located between the front beam section and the rear beam section. The rigid middle beam section comprises a rigid bottom layer, a rigid top layer and a composite core layer sandwiched between the bottom layer and the top layer. The composite core layer comprises a damping material and a rigid material and is coextensive with the rigid bottom layer. In one embodiment, the composite core layer is a multilayer laminate structure having a layer of the damping material and a layer of the rigid material, the two layers being coextensively laminated together.
The present invention is also a method for fabricating a vibration resistant mechanical member used a disc drive subject to high frequency motion operations. The method comprises the following steps: providing a first rigid layer; laminating a composite core layer on the first rigid layer, wherein the composite core layer comprises a damping material and a rigid material; laminating a second rigid layer on the core layer so that the composite core layer is sandwiched between the first rigid layer and the second rigid layer to form an integral laminate structure; and fabricating the mechanical member from the integral laminate structure, so that the mechanical member has a desired size and shape for each individual layer of the integral laminate structure. In one embodiment of the method, the composite core layer is a multilayer laminate structure having a layer of the damping material and a layer of the rigid material, the two layers being coextensively laminated together.
The invention utilizes a realization that, instead of addressing the stiffness and mechanical integrity of the suspension load beam and its damping property separately by adding dampers to the main structure of the suspension load beam, a composite material having both a structural element and a damping element is used to form the core of the suspension load beam to achieve balance and optimization in both above respects at the same time.
The present invention will be further explained with reference to the drawing figures listed below, wherein like structure is referred to by like numerals throughout the several views.
There are many ways to form a composite of two or more phases. As known in the art of making composites, two-phase composites can be combined in 10 unique configurations. Among these unique configurations, the 0–3 and 2—2 configurations are the most common. In the 0–3 configuration, as reflected by the name of this configuration in which each digit indicates the number of dimensions a corresponding phase is connected to itself, the first phase material is connected in three (3) dimensions with itself and the second phase material is not connected in any dimension (i.e., zero dimension) with itself. In the 2—2 configuration, the first phase material and the second phase material are each connected in two dimensions with itself.
Although the 2—2 composite configuration shown in
Suspension load beam 18 of
The embodiment having a laminated multiple layer composite core 44B shown in
Although suspension load beam 18 may be fabricated individually, it can also be made in batch form. To do this, lamination of a size much larger than that of an individual suspension load beam is made first and then cut into smaller pieces for individual suspension load beams. Further features such as side rails 35 (
As shown in
Furthermore, although the above-described coextensiveness between different layers may be preferred during the process of lamination, the areas of each layer may be individually modified after lamination process is complete using methods such as etching commonly known in the art. Particularly, instead of using stainless steel top layer 42, a different rigid material such as a conductive material may be used as top layer 42 for a purpose other than structural reinforcement of the load beam. Etching subsequent to lamination on the top layer may be necessary, and possible in the method of the present invention, in order to form patterns required for functions unique to the top layer. One of the advantages of using a composite core layer which has both a damping component and a rigid structural component according to the present invention is the ability to reduce the degree of reliance on structural reinforcement contributed by components such as stainless steel. It is therefore possible that a stainless steel bottom layer together with the composite core layer together may have sufficient mass-stiffness-damping performance, leaving room for selecting a top layer to provide other functionalities without being severely constrained by mass-stiffness-damping performance of the load beam.
The composite core in accordance with the present invention may be used in combination of any other designs for suspension load beams. For example, the composite core may be used in suspension load beams disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,157,522 to Murphy et al. and 6,392,843 to Murphy, which two patents are incorporated herein by reference.
Denotation and separate description of the three beam sections 30, 32 and 34 in
In addition, although dimensions such as lengths in the longitudinal direction of the three beam sections, and comparative dimensions such as ratios lengths thereof are design choices that affect the overall performance of the mass-spring-damping system, the suspension load beam according to the present invention is not limited to any specific dimensions are comparative dimensions and may be used in combination of any additional design considerations.
Furthermore, although as shown in
The thicknesses of the layers in the illustrated embodiments are only illustrative. One of the advantages of using a composite core layer in accordance with the present invention is the availability of more designing dimensions in which optimization may be made. Because the composite core has both a structural element and damping element, the conventional rigid layer is no longer the sole contributor to the stiffness and structural integrity of the load beam. As a result, more room of designing freedom is gained intensive the thickness of the rigid layer and the selection of the material for making the same. In contrast, the prior art method using a damping material as the core of the suspension load beam has no provision of a structural element for the stiffness and mechanical integrity in the damping material core. In fact, while the prior art method has no intention to contribute to the stiffness and other mechanical properties of the suspension load beam by adding a damping material core, undesirable effects of an opposite kind may be unavoidable, given that the suggested thickness (1 mil) of the damping material core is comparable to the thickness of the stainless steel layer and constitutes about one third of the entire thickness (3 mils) of the suspension load beam.
Compared to the prior art method using a damping material as the core of the suspension load beam, it is envisioned that much less amount of damping material is needed to achieve a comparable mass-stiffness-damping performance by using the composite core in accordance with the present invention. For example, in the embodiment shown in
Another aspect of the present invention relates to the realization that damping is only necessary during the operation of the disc drive and that the operating temperature of the disc drive is usually above room temperature. The operating temperature of a typical have disc drive, for example, is 45–75� C. This particular range of operating temperature is a relative consideration in material selections of both first phase material (rigid material) and second phase material (damping material) to make the composite core layer for a suspension load beam in accordance with the present invention. For example, polymers such as polyimides may be used for both first phase and second phase materials, as long as the polymer for first phase material remains rigid in the temperature range of 45–75� C., or more narrowly 55–65� C., while the polymer for second phase material becomes viscoelastic in the same temperature range. Such selections of materials may be based upon the knowledge of the glass transition temperature of the polymer.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, workers skilled in the art will recognize that changes may be made in form and detail without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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An industrialist's son, Boulez was born in Montbrison, near Lyons, in 1925. At 17 he went to Paris to pursue his musical ambitions, studying with Olivier Messiaen and René Leibowitz. The former opened his mind to rhythmic irregularity, to sonic dazzle, and to Asian and African cultures. From the latter, Schoenberg's chief apostle in Paris, he gained the passionate conviction that the future lay with serialism.
In 1945 he was taken on as music director of the theatre company run by Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. His first acknowledged compositions date from the same year, introducing a voice in perpetual turmoil, influenced partly by the compressed rage and savagery he found in his favourite poets, Antonin Artaud and Rene Char. A Char sequence, Le marteau sans maitre (1952-54), crowned this period. At once explosive and calm, immediate and inscrutable, it made him the intellectual leader of a Europe-wide movement, a position he maintained through frequent articles, regular teaching at the Darmstadt summer school from 1955 to 1967, and, increasingly, conducting.
He became a conductor as head of the Domaine Musical, a Parisian concert series he founded in 1954, and whose innovative mixed programming (new music and 20th-century classics in the company of music from up to 500 years earlier) he took with him when he worked in the late 1950s with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and German radio orchestras. Finding it harder to satisfy himself creatively, he abandoned compositions or kept them as 'work in progress' (for example, the Third Piano Sonata and Pli selon pli for soprano and orchestra). Meanwhile, his conducting career took off. He gave his first concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1961, conducted Berg's Wozzeck at the Paris Opera in 1963, and made his British orchestral debut in 1964, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
The combination of immense gifts with a vision for the musical future was irresistible, and he was appointed concurrently Principal Conductor of the BBC SO (1971-74) and Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (1971-77). He broadened his repertoire rapidly, but stayed committed to innovation. At the end of his New York stint he spent time founding and developing the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/ Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. He drastically scaled down his conducting and began learning the new language of computer music, which he displayed spectacularly in Répons (1980-84).
In the early 1990s he began to increase his conducting commitments again, and to re-record much of the repertoire closest to him (Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Webern, Ravel, Mahler). But he has also gone on composing, if slowly, his most recent works including further instalments of his Notations, in which he reconsiders for large orchestra, lavishly and gorgeously, some vivid ideas he set down as piano pieces when he was 20.
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