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Adooting Tacuchi Method for Desiginv High Shock Resistant Head Suspension Assembly for OPTIMIZATIONS OF AIR-LUBRICATED SLIDER BEARINGS
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Mobile Hard Disk Drives BY USNIG REDUCED BASIS CONCEPT

Haruhide Takahashi, Hitoshi Shindo, Shozo Saegusa, Shigeo Nakamura

and Yasuhiro Matsuda’
Data Storage Systems Div., Hitachi, Ltd. 2880 Kozu. Odawuru, Kanaguwa 256851 0 Japan
Phone: +81-465-48-111I Fax: +81-465-48-5089 e-mail: h-taka@tr.hitachi.co.Jp
‘MechanicalEngineering Research Lab., Hitachi, Ltd 502 Kandatsu. Tsuchiuru, Ibaruki 3000013 Japan
Introduction
Shock resistance is becoming very important issue for
mobile hard disk drives (HDD)[I]. Taguchi Method[2]
were applied for designing the suspension to improve
shock resistance in operation and non-operation and
positioning characteristics. The effects of eight
parameters of the suspension shape for three
characteristics were investigated. Finally we optimized
three characteristics of the suspension by using weighted
function and developed high shock resistant head
suspension assembly.
FEM Simulation for 3 Characteristics
8 control factors (A to H) of the suspension shape for
2.5” HDD were chosen for L18 orthogonal table. The
operating shock resistance boundary acceleration that
caused the inertia force equal to the load was calculated
by Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation for 18 cases.
The most sensitive factor was G: thickness of the
loadbeam and GI was the best for factor G. For non-
operating shock, the displacement of the tip of the arm
which might slap the disk was calculated. For positioning
characteristics, the first torsion (TI) frequency was
calculated and G3 was the best for the factor G, so there
was the tradeoff to operating shock. The optimization by
Dong-In Kim, Sang-Joon Yoon, Tae-Sik Kang, Tae-Gun Jeong and Dong-Hoon Choi
Center of Innovative Design Optimization Technology, Hanyang university, Seoul 133-791, Korea
Tel :02-2290-0478, Fax :02-2291-4070, e-mail :dongin@ihanyang.ac.kr
This study is to determine the configuration of the slider by introducing a reduced basis
concept in order to eliminate the problems caused by the large dependence of the computing
time upon the number of design variables. To validate the suggested design methodology, the
optimizations of air-bearing surface (ABS) are executed for several target flying heights.
Formulation
Fig I Head suspensionofmobile hard disk dnves Applying’ the reduced basis concept [l], the design variable {X}of the ABS
configuration is substituted into the combination of several basis models as shown in Eq. (1). It
can effectively reduce the number of the design variables.
V I = [AI {QI (1)
where, the ith column of [A] is the ithbasis model, and Q, is its amplitude in the final design
(i=l,. . .,n.). In consideration of the design requirements of the slider, an optimum formula is
achieved by choosing the values of
as design variables.
{e}, the recess depth 6, and the shallow step depth 6, $
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Minimize (h,,, /h* - 1)2 + (h,,, / h * - 1)2
Fig 2 Control factors (A-H) subject to aL_ < a I a U , B’L, ~ I p I , B ” ,h j y z r 2 w . h ’ . (3)
The objective function of Eq. (2) is to minimize the variation in flying height h from a
target value over the recording band. The constraints of the first and the second sub-equations
in Eq. (3) manipulate pitch angle a and roll angle p to maintain suitable range considering
the industrial standards. Another constraint of the third sub-equation in Eq. (3) is applied to
facilitate fast take-off. In addition, the side constraints are determined to obtain a reasonable
A B C n E F G H
configuration. The response surface method (RSM) is employed to efficiently overcome the
Fig.) Effects of 8 factors for operating shock resistance
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weak points of the noisy functions and to reduce the number of analyzer function calls. -
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the weighted function of operating shock and non- Computational results m

operating shock and T1 frequency was A2B3CID3 Fig.1 shows that the optimum designs are obtained at the target flying heights of 12nm
EIF2Gl H1. and 9nm. The take-off performances of optimum sliders and their flying attitudes are plotted
in Fig.2 and Fig.3 respehively.
Summarv A B C D E F G H
4 Effects of 8 factors for first torsion frequency
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By using Taguchi Method, the effects of control
factors to three different characteristics were investigated.
The operating shock resistance was improved by 3.7dB.
[ I 1 M.Tokuyama, Y.Katou, J.Shimizu, Y.Kojima, H.Nishida,
“DEVELOPMENTOF SHOCKPROOF SUSPENSION’: IEEE
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Trans. Magn., vo1.33 No.5 (1999),2484-2486
FIG1 FIG2 FIG3 F2GI F2G2 F2G3 F3Q1 F3G2 F3G3
[2] Genichi Taguchi, “Introduction to Quality Engineering”:
APO (1986) Fig.5 Optimization for 3 characteristics

Figure I Optimum designs Figure 2 Take-offperformances Figure 3 Flying attitudes

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