Hard Disk Drive Dismantlement for Critical Material Recovery

This invention rapidly and economically disassembles hard disk drives to recover critical rare earth elements, metals, printed circuit boards, and other constituents. Additionally, this invention destroys data on spinning disk platters. An outcome of this invention is re-usable, unaltered materials that may potentially be reused in new manufactured hard disk drives. Our process does not damage components during disassembly and allows applications for directly re-using recovered components such as magnet assemblies, cases, and printed circuit boards. Re-use is not limited to hard drives, many items could be produced using various forms of HDD constituents such as magnetic powder that can be formed into magnets of any shape (e.g. 3D printed).

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