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7388733 Method for making noble metal conductive leads for suspension assemblies  
A method of manufacturing an integrated lead head suspension flexure of the type having conductors on a spring metal layer capable of being etched by a first etching process. The method includes...
7385788 Carriage assembly of a hard disk drive  
A carriage assembly of a hard disk drive is constructed so that the bonding of flying leads of a long tail suspension circuit board and bonding terminals of a flexible printed circuit board can be...
7382582 Reduced cross talk in wireless suspensions  
Reduced cross talk between adjacent read and write circuits in a disk drive suspension interconnect results from interposing a ground trace conductor between the circuits and generally for the full...
7379396 Rotary disk type storage device  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a portable rotary disk type storage device provided with a form factor allowing dimensions of an accommodation space in a longitudinal and a lateral...
7372669 Magnetic disk drive, wiring connection structure and terminal structure  
Terminals of a flexible printed circuit board and terminals of a wiring trace in a head suspension assembly are to be connected with each other by soldering without causing a soldering defect. In...
7359158 Suspension of disc drive  
A suspension for disc drive has a base portion including a base plate, a load beam, a pair of hinge members, a wired flexure, etc. The wired flexure has a metal base and a wiring portion on the...
7356907 Method of manufacturing a carriage assembly of a hard disk drive  
A method of manufacturing a cartridge assembly of a hard disk drive, including a step of forming a part of a wiring circuit into flying leads and a step of forming a coating layer on the respective...
7352535 Method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk and signal loss in flexing interconnects of an electrical lead suspension  
A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk and signal loss in an electrical interconnect is disclosed. The electrical interconnect includes a laminate. A plurality of signal traces and a...
7342750 Method for providing electrical crossover in a laminated structure  
An externally wireless laminated suspension for a hard disk drive are disclosed. In one embodiment, the externally wireless laminated suspension has an insulating layer to electrically isolate a...
7336446 Suspension board having a circuit and a flying lead portion  
A suspension board with circuit having a conductor layer formed in the form of a fine wiring circuit by an additive process, while providing a reduced risk of damage and breaking of the conductor...
7334244 Flexible flat cable and disk drive using the same  
A flexible flat cable and a disk drive using the same are provided. The flexible flat cable is configured to suppress an electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by a signal transmitted by it....
7330338 Method for adjusting pitch and roll in a head suspension  
Apparatus and method for adjusting at least one of a pitch and roll parameter of a gimbal for a head suspension assembly having a pair of members contacting at least one gimbal arm at spaced apart...
7319573 Magnetic disk drive having a suspension mounted transmission line including read and write conductors and a lower conductor  
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive which has improved electrical properties owing to a reduction in the loss of transmission line, improved vibration properties owing to a...
7317595 Suspension assembly and rotary disk storage device  
Embodiments of the invention provide a suspension assembly offering large peel stiffness, small pitch stiffness and small roll stiffness. In one embodiment, the suspension assembly includes a load...
7307817 Disk drive suspension with limiter feature  
A disk drive suspension and method has a limiter structure that limits movement of the tongue relative to a surrounding frame by extending the plastic film layer and optionally the metal layer...
7296336 Method to protect a GMR head from electrostatic damage during the manufacturing process  
A simple method is provided for protecting slider mounted read/write transducers from electrostatic discharge damage during the manufacture of disk drives. The method involves placing a ball of...
7289285 Information storage systems  
An information storage apparatus includes a storage media including a plurality of information tracks. Each storage medium has a head assembly having a substantially planar surface and a plurality...
7271985 System and method for crosstalk reduction in a flexible trace interconnect array  
A system for reducing signal crosstalk in a flexible trace interconnect array includes a flexible dielectric material base, and a plurality of conductors longitudinally arranged as pairs in a...
7258819 Voltage variable substrate material  
The present invention provides an improved voltage variable material (“VVM”). More specifically, the present invention provides an improved printed circuit board substrate, an improved device...
7239485 Localized heating element for a suspension assembly  
The present invention provides a suspension assembly having a slider body with a trailing edge face. A bond pad is positioned on the trailing edge face and a conductive trace is connected to the...
7227725 Head stack assembly with locking pins for retaining flex cable  
A head stack assembly for a disk drive. The head stack assembly includes an actuator defining an axis of rotation. The actuator includes an actuator arm defining a longitudinal axis orthogonal to...
7223480 Metal laminate and etching method therefor  
The present invention relates to a metal laminate which is broadly used for a flexible wiring board or the like and an etching method therefor. In particular, the present invention relates to a...
7220920 Flexible electrical circuit with slotted coverlay  
An integrated lead flexure having a slotted coverlay to compensate for curling caused by thermal and hygroscopic-induced expansion and contraction of the coverlay.
7219413 Adjusting system and method for head slider mounting regions on head suspensions  
A method for adjusting static attitude of a head suspension is provided that includes providing an adjustment pin and adjusting the static attitude of a supported head suspension by contacting the...
7209325 Suspension damping method with minimum impact on preload stiffness  
The present invention relates to a suspension assembly that includes a load beam having a bend section with a bending stiffness and an in-plane stiffness. The assembly also includes a constraint or...
7161767 Wireless suspension design with ground plane structure  
Methods and devices are described that provide improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection for suspension assemblies. In one embodiment, a ground line is provided among the traces that...
7161765 Write/read head supporting mechanism, and write/read system  
An object of the invention is to provide a write/read head supporting mechanism for a magnetic disk system or optical disk system having a microactuator for effecting a micro-displacement of a...
7158348 Integrated lead suspension for use in a disk drive using a tri-metal laminate and method for fabrication  
An example of a multi-layer structure which may be used for supporting a transducer includes a support layer and an etch stop layer formed from a refractory metal on the support layer. A first...
7158347 Grounding connection between suspension flexure and arm actuator  
An actuator arm assembly of a hard disk drive. The assembly includes a flexure that is attached to an actuator arm and a head coupled to the flexure. The head is coupled to a pre-amplifier circuit...
7158331 Disk drive having control circuit board mounted outside casing and head actuator coupled capacitor mounted inside casing on printed circuit board  
A disk drive includes a casing which houses a disk-shaped recording medium, a drive motor which holds and rotates the recording medium, a head which performs read/write operations, a head actuator...
7142395 Method for making noble metal conductive leads for suspension assemblies  
A method of manufacturing an integrated lead head suspension flexure of the type having conductors on a spring metal layer capable of being etched by a first etching process. The method includes...
7139154 Disc drive actuator assembly with trunk flexible printed circuit board damping configuration  
A disc unit includes a head that records information onto and/or reproduces information from a disc, a suspension that includes a top surface and a side surface, and supports the head on the top...
7130157 Head suspension having a displacement limiter  
A suspension including a load beam, a flex gimbal, and a displacement limiter. The load beam includes a distal end having a dimple extending downwardly therefrom and an aperture. The flex gimbal...
7116523 Interconnect module for use in a suspension assembly  
A lead routing module for interconnecting two devices in a suspension assembly. The suspension assembly including at least a suspension, a slider/head assembly, and a lead routing module. The...
7113372 HGA plateau gimbal design  
The present invention includes an improved suspension assembly comprises a suspension including a load beam and a gimbal, a FOS having a polymer portion (or flex circuit) and a trace portion,...
7110222 System and apparatus for assembling hard disk drive integrated lead suspensions to arm electronics cables via additional degrees of freedom at the tail termination and impedance grooming thereof  
A system, apparatus, and method of terminating an integrated lead suspension (ILS) tail to an arm electronics cable allows plated solder material to be utilized on the ILS pads by providing...
7099118 One-piece suspension assembly including interconnect  
An integrated suspension assembly including interconnect is used to provide an electrical and mechanical connection between an actuation system and a slider. The suspension assembly includes a...
7099117 Head stack assembly including a trace suspension assembly backing layer and a ground trace for grounding a slider  
A head stack assembly includes a flex cable assembly. The head stack assembly further includes an actuator arm and a load beam coupled to the actuator arm. The head stack assembly further includes...
7092214 Wireless suspension design to accommodate multiple drive designs  
A wireless suspension design is described that can be used in varying types of drive designs. In one embodiment, a flex circuit is provided with at least two indicia to indicate where the flex...
7079357 Additive-process suspension interconnect with controlled noise  
A disk drive electrical interconnect assembly and additive method therefor. The interconnect assembly has a supporting or fifth layer of metal, a fourth layer of a polyimide precursor or a...
7068471 Low stiffness gimbal for disk drive head suspensions  
A gimbal and load beam apparatus for a head suspension for a disk drive having lateral arms with dielectric and conductor layers without metal backing to provide for low pitch and roll stiffness...
7064928 Method and apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head  
Method and apparatus are presented for electrically coupling a slider to ground. In one embodiment, a bonding pad is provided on a side of the slider body separate from the bonding pad(s) used for...
7059868 Connection of trace circuitry in a computer disk drive system  
A system and method for connecting flexible circuitry in a disk drive system such as that used in computer systems. The system and method allow a large number of traces to be connected in a small...
7051424 Method and apparatus for electrically and physically coupling a micro-actuator and slider to a hard drive arm suspension for component replacement after detachment from the suspension  
A system and method are disclosed for coupling a replacement micro-actuator to a drive arm suspension after a micro-actuator, such as a defective micro-actuator, has been detached from the suspension.
7050266 Write/read head supporting mechanism and write/read system having a flexible grounding member  
An object of the invention is to provide a write/read head supporting mechanism for a magnetic disk system or optical disk system having a microactuator for effecting a micro-displacement of a...
7035051 Low stiffness, high torsion suspension for disk drives  
A low stiffness, high torsion disk drive suspension having reduced gram load change after backbending includes a laminate of a metal layer, a plastic film layer and a plurality of conductors, a...
7035050 Flexible circuit laminate shunt for disk drive suspensions  
A disk drive suspension interconnect of a flexible conductive laminate with an electrically insulative layer and a pair of trace conductors supported thereon is shunted by having an insulative...
7032294 Method of making switchable shunts for integrated lead suspensions  
A switchable shunt has an insulating layer separating conductive lead and spring metal layers. The shunt includes a base region formed on the spring metal layer, one or more arms formed in the...
7023665 Conductor assembly for reducing track misregistration in a disk drive  
A conductor assembly for carrying electrical signals is provided for a disk drive having an actuator arm. The actuator arm includes a first surface lying in a first plane, a second surface lying in...
7019946 Laminate load beam with trench arrangement having circuit housed therein  
A disc drive has an improved electrical interconnect assembly mated to a suspension assembly for coupling one or more conductive paths leading from a read/write head to control circuitry located...
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