International Business Machines Corporation

Peter John Golcher

Icko E T Iben

Ho-Yiu Lam

William Thomas Bandy, Iv

Jose Luis A Salenga

Dylan J Boday

Larry LeeRoy Tretter

George G Zamora

Sassan K Shahidi

Icko Eric Timothy Iben

John Bradley Kriehn

Jeffrey Serrell Snyder

Joyce L S Tang

A magnetoresistive transducer head assembly includes a reader element, a writer element and a high impedance shunt electrically connecting the reader element and the writer element. The high impedance shunt provides a high impedance conductive path for maintaining electrostatic charge equipotential between the reader element and the writer element.

Shunt for magnetoresistive transducer heads for electrostatic discharge protection

A system in one embodiment includes a cable having a plurality of cable leads, and a multi-diode chip having a pad-side not facing the cable. The multi-diode chip includes a plurality of sets of contact pads on the pad-side of the multi-diode chip, and a plurality of crossed diode sets, wherein each set of crossed diodes is coupled between a first contact pad and a second contact pad of one set of contact pads, wherein at least two of the plurality of cable leads are coupled via wire-bonding to one of the plurality of sets of contact pads of the multi-diode chip for providing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for at least one element of the electronic device coupled to the at least two cable leads.

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for electronic devices using wire-bonding

A cable having an electrostatic discharge (ESD) dissipative coating. The cable includes a lead and an ESD dissipative coating operatively coupled to the lead. Other layers such as adhesives and insulating layers can be provided. The ESD dissipative coating can also function as the insulator for the lead.

ESD dissipative coating on cables

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Peter John Golcher