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US 2006/0218772 A1Published application
System and method for manufacturing a hard disk drive suspension flexure and for preventing damage due to electrical arcing
OwnerMing Yao, Masashi Shiraishi +1inventors
InventorsMing Yao, Masashi Shiraishi, Yi Xie
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for manufacturing a hard disk drive suspension flexure and for preventing damage due to electrical arcing between traces and between a trace and a grounding structure. In one embodiment, one or more portions of the suspension flexure is etched and laminated with an insulative coating.
Claims17
1-16. (canceled)
A method for manufacturing a hard disc drive suspension flexure comprising:
- coupling a first electrical trace to a base element, said base element including an insulative layer and a conductive layer, and
- sandwiching said insulative layer between said first electrical trace and said conductive layer, said conductive layer including a recess opposite the electrical trace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.