ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,154, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Sealed hard disk drive base insert" was invented by Takashi Tomita (Yokohama, Japan), Yuichi Arai (Kawasaki, Japan), Yasuhiro Sakata (Fujisawa, Japan), Katsuhiko Ohta (Fuchu, Japan) and Shuhei Nogawa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard disk drive enclosure base includes a main base composed of a first material and having at least one bottom opening therethrough, a base insert composed of a second material having a higher Young's modulus than the first material and inserted into a corresponding opening of the main base, and ...