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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher Unger, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Bradley J. Ver Meer, Savage, MN (US);
Ravishankar Ajjanagadde Shivarama, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/4826 (2013.01); G11B 5/483 (2015.09); G11B 5/6005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A slider adhesion system can be practiced in a data storage device with a flexure suspended from a load beam and a slider mounted to a gimbal tongue of the flexure. The slider can be aligned with an aperture of the gimbal tongue and attached to an adhesion feature of the gimbal tongue with an adhesive layer. The adhesion feature may consist of a plurality of cantilevered tabs extending into the aperture of the gimbal tongue.