Disk drive suspension with hybrid leads
AssigneeMagnecomp Corporation
InventorAlejandro Koji Iwamoto
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Abstract
The efficiency of wire bundle conductors is realized in a disk drive suspension without wire bundle biasing of the slider movement by interposing a section of flexible conductive laminate conductor between the wire bundle terminus and the slider, thereby obtaining the nearly bias free connection of the flexible conductive laminate conductor to the slider and as well substantially the superior electrical performance of the wire bundle conductor.
Claims15
A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam, and supported by said load beam on one side a flexure carrying a slider head, an electrical connector running substantially the length of said load beam to said slider, said connector comprising an electrically integrated hybrid of different segments including a wire bundle segment and a flexible conductive laminate segment, said segments being at least partially on the flexure side of said load beam and arranged sequentially and in such manner that the slider head is electrically coupled by said wire bundle segment at the proximal end of said load beam, and by said flexible conductor at the distal end of said load beam, whereby said flexure is free of wire bundle bias in its movement.
A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam, and supported by said load beam on one side a flexure carrying a slider head, an electrical connector carried by said load beam along a major portion of the connector length, said connector comprising a two-component structure of separate, physically different conductors, both of said conductors being at least partially on said one side of said load beam and joined to define a continuous electrical path for carrying current from said slider head to signal circuitry beyond said load beam while keeping said slider head movement free of wire bundle induced bias.
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