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US 7,681,302 B2Granted
Method for manufacturing a hard disk drive arm
AssigneeSAE Magnetics (H. K.) Ltd.
InventorTakehiro Kamigama
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for improving suspension-to-slider attachment in a hard disk drive. A slider having a number of bond pads on its leading edge and a number of bond pads on its trailing edge is to be coupled to a suspension flexure having a number of leading bond pads and a number of trailing bond pads. The slider is to be coupled to the suspension flexure at the leading bond pads and the trailing bond pads by a method such as gold ball, solder ball, or solder bump bonding.
Claims12
A method for manufacturing a hard disk drive arm comprising:
- providing a slider element having a number of slider electrical pads on a leading edge of the slider element and a number of slider electrical pads on a trailing edge of the slider element;
- providing a hard drive arm suspension element having a number of leading suspension electrical pads, each electrically coupled to a trace element, and a number of trailing suspension electrical pads on a surface of the hard drive arm suspension element;
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- coupling said slider element to said hard drive arm suspension element at said leading electrical pads and said trailing electrical pads.
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A method for manufacturing a hard disk drive arm comprising:
- providing a slider element having a number of slider electrical pads on a leading edge of the slider element and a number of slider electrical pads on a trailing edge of the slider element;
- providing a hard drive arm suspension element having a number of leading suspension electrical pads, each electrically coupled to a trace element, and a number of trailing suspension electrical pads on a surface of the hard drive arm suspension element;
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- coupling said slider element to said hard drive arm suspension element at said leading electrical pads and said trailing electrical pads and further comprising positioning said slider element onto said suspension element by a placement device for said coupling said slider element to said suspension element wherein said placement device is a vacuum tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.