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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...
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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...
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7370406 |
Method of manufacturing a thin film structure
A thin film magnetic head is described, the magnetic head having an insulating layer and a protrusion which has an upper portion and a base portion, and the upper portion has an extended portion....
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7362545 |
Head stack assembly and manufacturing method thereof, and disk drive unit using the same
Connecting a head gimbal assembly with a controlling circuit, including the steps of facing connecting terminals of the head gimbal assembly and the connecting terminal of the controlling circuit...
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7355818 |
Disc drive integral actuator pins
A method for attaching a printed circuit card assembly to an actuator assembly in a disc drive comprises forming one or more pins integrally with the actuator assembly, inserting each pin through a...
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7342749 |
Method of removing lead-free solder from slider pad and magnetic disk drive
A method for removing a lead-free solder from a slider pad is provided to permit re-utilization of a head/slider used in a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, a slider pad formed on a...
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7287315 |
Apparatus for measuring slider mounting position in magnetic head, and magnetic head manufacturing system using the measurement apparatus
The present invention provides a measurement apparatus for obtaining a suitable position on a suspension where a more miniature magnetic head slider is to be mounted to the suspension, the...
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7245458 |
System and method for improving the electrical connection of a hard drive relay flexible circuit assembly of an HGA flexure cable
A system and method are disclosed for improving the electrical connection of a hard drive relay flexible circuit assembly to a head-gimbal assembly (HGA) flexure cable. In one embodiment, a...
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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...
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7180711 |
Head stack assembly with an actuator body and flex cable guiding support and method of making the same
A head stack assembly for a disk drive. The head stack assembly includes an actuator body. The actuator body includes a main body section defining a horizontal plane orthogonal to an axis of...
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7170718 |
Wiring body with flexure sheet connecting the head slider and the driving unit in a disk apparatus
To provide a disk apparatus that can enhance reliability of a head wiring and a driving wiring, a disk apparatus includes a head slider, an arm, a driving unit, a wiring body provided for supplying...
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7165314 |
Method for manufacturing a magnetic head arm assembly (HAA)
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA) is disclosed. The HAA includes three principal components, a head gimbal assembly (HGA), a flexible printed circuit (FPC)...
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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...
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7154712 |
Wire support member and rotary disk storage device
One feature of the invention is to support a wiring structure on a side surface of an actuator arm used in a magnetic disk device so as not to allow fluttering to occur. In one embodiment, a wire...
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7149059 |
Head supporting device and disk apparatus
A head supporting device includes a supporting arm that is swingable in a plane parallel to a recording surface of a recording medium around a first swing axis and in a plane perpendicular to the...
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7145753 |
Head stack assembly with insulated wiring extending between actuator coil and actuator main body section disposed in lateral wiring protector extending from actuator body
A head stack assembly for a disk drive. The head stack assembly includes an actuator body defining an axis of rotation. The actuator body includes a main body section and a coil support portion...
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7142397 |
Flex circuit assembly with an integrated circuit device attached to a base film with an underfill portion and sealed with a glob top portion
A flex circuit assembly includes a flex circuit base film. The flex circuit assembly includes an integrated circuit device disposed adjacent the flex circuit base film and including a solder bump...
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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...
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7119993 |
Actuator assembly including a circuit assembly and a damper therefor
Apparatus and method for damping operational vibration modes of an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly preferably supports a data transducing head adjacent a storage medium in a servo track...
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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...
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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...
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7082012 |
Disc drive breather filter mounted to a flex circuit bracket
A breather filter is assembled within a disc drive by positioning the filter atop a flex circuit bracket on a base plate of the drive. A breather port is formed through a top cover of the disc...
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7070421 |
Rotating disk storage device having connection structure between FPC and printed board
Embodiments of the invention provide a rotating disk storage device including a connection structure between an FPC and a printed board and providing allowance for dimensional tolerances. In one...
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7054110 |
Carriage arm assembly of disk drive
A carriage arm assembly is disclosed that has a sub-assembly and a signal relay member that is arranged on a side surface of an arm portion of a carriage arm of the sub-assembly for connection...
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7050271 |
Actuator having doped silicon arms and method of making the same
An actuator to which leads are easily attachable, and a method of making the same are provided. In the actuator in accordance with the present invention, a pair of silicon arms have their...
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7050268 |
Disk drive with read IC chip and write IC chip mounted respectively on suspension and arm
A dedicated read IC chip is mounted on a head suspension. The dedicated read IC chip is located closer to a read element. A stray capacitance of a wiring can be reduced. Even if the electric...
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7020949 |
Method of fabricating head supporting member
A fabricating method effective in affixing FPC with high accuracy, simplifying a supporting mechanism of a head supporting member, avoiding mechanical damage to a load beam or a flexible member and...
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7009816 |
Head support mechanism and magnetic disk device
To strengthen a flying lead portion of a long-tail flexible printed circuit (FPC) integrally formed with a flexure, stacked support portions of resin layers on both sides of a flying lead 7 of a...
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7009815 |
Disk drive with spring provided in groove of voice coil holder to electrically connect voice coil with flexible printed circuit
A technique of connection between VCM system wires and a FPC of a disk drive is improved in the following manner to enable miniaturization and thinning of the disk drive and reduction in cost....
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7009814 |
Disc drive suspension in which track-direction swing in the low-frequency band is restrained
A disc drive suspension comprises a load beam, baseplate, hinge member, and wired flexure. The wired flexure has a metal base and a wiring portion formed on the metal base. A supported portion is...
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6992864 |
Flexible printed circuit board unit contributing to reliable soldering and suppression of increased temperature
A thermal component is mounted on the front surface of an isolator sheet within a first specific area. A thermally-conductive material is located on the back surface of the isolator sheet on the...
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6980391 |
Disk drive with coil spring attaching flex bracket to base
A disk drive includes a base, a cover, a spindle motor attached to the base, a disk supported by the spindle motor, a subassembly for attachment to the base, and a compressible element positioned...
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6976302 |
Slider manufacturing aid
In a method to manufacture a bar in which a row of slider sections are aligned, a wafer block is made from a wafer in which rows of slider sections are aligned. The wafer block is bonded to a dummy...
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6970329 |
Disk drive having a VCM plate which includes an integrally formed elongated protrusion for securing a flex bracket to the disk drive base
A disk drive includes a disk drive base, a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base, a disk supported by the spindle motor, and a head stack assembly coupled to the disk drive base. The head...
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6950283 |
Stacked actuator arm assembly clamp
A stacked actuator assembly has symmetrical actuator arms and spacers stacked on a rotatable sleeve. The assembly may have circuit elements or other elements attached on one side of the assembly....
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6940697 |
Interconnection scheme for head arms of disk drive actuator
The invention includes at least one head arm providing head electrical interconnection as essentially parallel traces on at least one face of the head arm using the metallic body of the head arm as...
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6937442 |
Contacting point damping method between flex circuit and pivot housing
The present invention for a disk drive is a damping feature applied to the contact area between the flexible circuit and the pivot housing, reducing the resonance energy transferred from the...
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6934126 |
Disk drive including a base assembly having a flex-to-board edge connector
A disk drive comprises a housing including a base; a disk rotatably attached to the base; a printed circuit board coupled to the base and including a plurality of circuit board pads; a head stack...
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6894875 |
Magnetic head suspension with both protected wiring and unprotected wiring, in addition to terminals
A magnetic head suspension includes an insulating base ( 12 ), wiring parts ( 13 ) formed on one surface of the insulating base ( 12 ) including a conductive metal layer, an elastic metal plate (...
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6874677 |
Bonding pad of suspension circuit
A new type of suspension circuit electrical bonding pad for electrically and mechanically connecting the magnetic recording head is described. The new type of bonding pad will serve as the joint...
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6866546 |
Electrical interconnect scheme
A connector that can couple a flexible circuit board of a head gimbal assembly to driving circuits of an apparatus coupled to a hard disk. The connector includes a pair of spring biased plates that...
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6856490 |
Flex cable assembly with improved flex cable dynamic loop characteristics
A flex cable assembly for use in a disc drive data storage device includes a laminated flex cable and a flex cable support. The flex cable provides electrical communication paths between a moveable...
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6836390 |
Hard disk drive comprising a flexible printed circuit with a hole
A hard disk drive is formed of head signal patterns, voltage patterns, a ground pattern, and a current pattern, and characterized in having a flexible printed circuit (FPC) with a hole between the...
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6781795 |
Connector for flexible printed circuit boards, head actuator provided with the same, and disk drive
A head actuator has two of arms that extend from a bearing assembly, and a relay FPC is fixed to each arm. The relay FPC extends from a head to the proximal end portion of the arm. The relay FPC...
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6771470 |
Magnetic head assembly having a rotational arm for electrically connecting the magnetic head to an external circuit and methods of manufacturing the same
A connecting portion of the external side FPC board connected to a control circuit provided outside of a magnetic head assembly and connecting terminals of arm side FPC boards respectively...
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6765763 |
Actuator system for disc drive
An actuator assembly of a disc drive having an actuator arm rotatably mounted adjacent a data disc. The actuator arm has a top surface and a bottom surface, and includes a head gimbal assembly...
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6754045 |
Electrical interconnect with a retaining feature for an actuator assembly
An interconnect apparatus for connecting a transducer to a flexible connector in an actuator assembly of a data storage device. The actuator assembly has a moveable actuator body and an arm...
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6724578 |
Electrical connection for the actuator coil of a magnetic disk drive
The present invention provides a thin actuator which is used for transferring a head of a magnetic disk drive, and prevents resultant malfunctions. In a moving part of the actuator in which a coil,...
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6721135 |
Printed circuit cable connector attachment assembly
A printed circuit cable (PCC) connector attachment assembly is provided for a disc drive. The PCC connector attachment assembly includes alignment pins and a compressive member. The alignment pins...
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6714383 |
Magnetic disk apparatus
A technique to be applied to improve the reliability of a magnetic disk apparatus is disclosed. In detail, a magnetic disk apparatus comprises a disk-shaped magnetic recording medium that rotates...
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