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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Ryan T. Ratliff, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and associated method for providing a strain relief in support of a medial portion of a terminal end of an electrical wire that is used in the construction of an actuator coil for a disc drive assembly. The strain relief apparatus has a base that is attached to the actuator assembly, an upstanding post around which the electrical wire is wrapped to provide a frictional engagement between the wire and the post, and a flange depending from a distal portion of the post to urge the wire onto the post and retain the wire about the post during routing of a distal portion of the terminal end that is associated with manufacturing steps of electrically connecting the actuator coil to the disc drive control system. In a preferred embodiment the strain relief has a pair of posts so that each terminal end is wrapped individually about one of the posts. In an alternative preferred embodiment the strain relief has a single post about which both terminal ends are wrapped.