| US 7,477,480 B2 | ||
| Disk spacer, hard disk drive with the disk spacer, and disk balancing method using the disk spacer | ||
| Young-rok Oh, Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on May 03, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/416,135. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0067833 (KR), filed on Jul. 26, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0025016 A1, Feb. 01, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G11B 17/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 360—98.08 | 14 Claims |

| 1. A disk spacer interposed between a pair of disks that are rotatably installed on a spindle motor and having a ring shape,
wherein a center of an inner circle defined by an inner circumferential surface of the disk spacer is not congruous with a
center of an outer circle defined by an outer circumferential surface thereof so as to produce a mass eccentricity of the
disk spacer.
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