Flexible circuit suspension
AssigneeMagnecomp Corporation
InventorRobert Summers
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Abstract
A disk drive suspension comprising a flexible circuit electrical connector and a steel load beam has a second dielectric layer free of conductive traces and not part of the flexible circuit positioned and maintained between the flexible circuit and the load beam.
Claims11
A disk drive suspension comprising a steel load beam and an electrical connector comprising a flexible circuit comprising dielectric plastic film and trace conductors disposed thereon across an air gap to said load beam, said flexible circuit having a distal portion, said dielectric film being a first dielectric film, and a second dielectric film free of trace conductors and maintained in bonding relation between said load beam and said flexible circuit, said distal portion being free of said second dielectric film.
A disk drive suspension comprising a steel load beam and an electrical connector comprising a flexible circuit comprising dielectric plastic film and trace conductors disposed thereon across an air gap to said load beam, said flexible circuit having a distal portion defining a flexure, said dielectric film being a first dielectric film, and a second dielectric film free of trace conductors, said second dielectric film having first and second faces, said film first face facing and adhered to said load beam and said second face facing and adhered to said flexible circuit, said distal portion-defined flexure being free of said second dielectric film.
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