Quantum Corporation

Mark Sheppard

Gregory Peter Hertrich

Arun Balakrishnan

Doug Gunther

A flexible multi-channel trace interconnect array has a head end for electrically connecting write and read trace pairs respectively to write and read elements of a data transducer head, a body formed of a flexible dielectric material and carrying the write and read trace pairs, and at least one circuit end for connecting the write and read trace pairs respectively to write driver and read preamplifier circuits of a data storage device. Each trace pair includes two trace conductors each having a trace width, and an inter-conductor separation space. Adjacent trace pairs are separated by an inter-pair space having a width greater than, and preferably two to twenty times greater than the inter-conductor separation space in order to decouple adjacent channel pairs.

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