Seagate Technology Incorporated

Yoshiki Midori

Steven S Eckerd

Mark S Maggio

Loren D Skarky

Tom Metzner

Cal Hardie

Lyle G Johnson

Ray-Chung Yu

Ray Yu

A transducer signal terminator for providing electrical connections between a plurality of read/write transducer lead wires and a preamplifier includes a substrate having a plurality of layers and has a plurality of intermediate strips. A plurality of head pads are located on the substrate to provide interconnection points. The intermediate strips have a plurality of electrically conductive pads with a hole therein, and each lead wire is electrically attached to a pad on the intermediate strip. Each intermediate strip is placed on the substrate such that each of the holes in the electrically conductive pads is aligned with one of the head pads on the substrate. An electrical connection is then formed between each head pad and a corresponding conductive pad of the intermediate strip.

Transducer signal wire termination

Method of electrically connecting a transducer to a preamplifier

A gimbal formed integral with a load beam by through etching a pattern at the end of the beam to define a pair of tabs connected by a pair of beams; half etching from the head direction one tab with an defined area masked to form a load button; and half etching the beam from the other direction to provide the proper gimbal stiffness. In practice, the head is glued to the other tab and load is applied through the button. The tabs are shaped to permit wire connections to top surface electrical contact terminals.

Gimbal for a flexure for top-terminated heads

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