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US 6,552,875 B1Granted
Suspension design for improving the curing process for head bonding application and method for same
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsHienminh Huu Le, Tzong-Shii Pan
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Abstract
A suspension design for improving the curing process for head bonding application and a method for same is disclosed. Vias are formed in the load beam and the flexure so that UV light is allowed to pass to cure the UV sensitive adhesive thereby bonding the slider to the head gimbal assembly.
Claims16
A disk drive, comprising:
- a rotating data storage medium mounted for rotation about an axis;
- a head gimbal assembly, the head gimbal assembly comprising a load beam, a flexure and a slider, wherein the slider includes a transducer;
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- an actuator, coupled to the head gimbal assembly, for moving the transducer relative to the data storage medium for reading and writing data to the data storage medium,
- wherein the load beam has load beam vias formed therein at a distal end thereof and the flexure has at least one flexure via formed therein, the load beam vias and the at least one flexure via are positioned to allow UV light to pass through without blocking to cure a UV sensitive adhesive used to securely bond the slider to the flexure.
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A head gimbal assembly for a disk drive, comprising:
- a load beam having load beam vias formed therein at a distal end thereof;
- a flexure coupled to the load beam, the flexure having at least one flexure via formed therein;
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- a slider having a transducer for reading and writing data to data storage media, the slider having a UV sensitive adhesive applied thereto;
- wherein the load beam vias and the at least one flexure via are positioned to allow UV light to pass through without blocking to cure the UV sensitive adhesive to securely bond the slider to the flexure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.