Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

Michael Ranes

Yuhsuke Matsumoto

David Patrick Druist

Glenn Paul Gee

Kenichi Murata

Mark Moravec

Adisak Tokaew

Peter Paolo Dilla

Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a suspension arm co-movably fixed to a carriage arm. The suspension arm comprises a slider attachment side and at least one first electrical contact pad on the slider attachment side. The suspension arm also comprises a slider co-movably fixed to the suspension arm. The slider comprises a suspension attachment side, a non-head side facing the suspension arm and intersecting the suspension attachment side at a first slider edge of the slider, a head side facing away from the suspension arm, and at least one electrical contact component on the suspension attachment side up to the first slider edge. At least one solder weldment is directly coupled to the at least one first electrical contact pad and the at least one electrical contact component. Additionally, a read-write head is coupled to the head side of the slider.

Slider and suspension arm interconnection for magnetic storage device

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Looc Calamba, Philippines

Michael Ranes