Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

International Business Machines Corporation

Keiichiroh Yoshida

Naoaki Kanada

Kazuyoshi Yoshida

Jun Ishikawa

Hitoshi Tsujino

Kohji Takahashi

Toshihiko Yuhhi

The invention prevents the deterioration of the read/write performance of a hard disk drive due to the interference between an inertial latching mechanism and an actuator when a head slider holding a magnetic head is located at a read/write position. A latching armprovided with a projectionand included in an inertial latching mechanism, and a partof a coil holding armincluded in an actuator are formed in shapes such that the latching armprovided with the projectiondoes not interfere with the coil holding armhaving the partwhen a head slider mounted on the actuator is located at a read/write position on a magnetic disk.

Inertial latching mechanism for disk drive actuator

A flexible cable assembly (FCA) has a flexible cable, first and second brackets attached to the flexible cable, and a band for holding the first and second brackets while the flexible cable is folded back and the first and second brackets overlap. The band is detachably mounted to the first and second brackets to facilitate efficient manufacturing and disassembly methods. The FCA may be implemented at various manufacturing stages including the head suspension assembly (HSA) or the entire hard disk drive (HDD) assembly.

Flex cable, head suspension assembly, and hard disk drive

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Kanagawa, Japan

Keiichiroh Yoshida