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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
May. 15, 2020
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Darrick T. Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn P. Gee, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony M. Bagus, Caloocan, PH;
Teodosio B. Quilapquilap, Jr., Las Pinas, PH;
Sharon C. Agtina, Santa Rosa, PH;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A high density slider clamp fixture is disclosed for accurately positioning a large number of head sliders for metrology testing. The slider clamp fixture may include a single piece, monolithic structure comprising a large number of slider nests, aligned in rows and columns in the slider fixture. Each slider nest includes a reference datum surface machined to precisely align with all other reference datum surfaces in a row of the monolithic structure. Each slider nest further includes a flexure clamp for independent clamping of each slider in the row against the reference datum surfaces.