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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2004
Hirofumi Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Kitahori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Kuroki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Kitahori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Kuroki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a rotating disk storage device including a connection structure between an FPC and a printed board and providing allowance for dimensional tolerances. In one embodiment, the rotating disk storage device includes a disk enclosure, an FPC supporting portion, and a flexible printed circuit board assembly provided with an FPC terminal area that extends along a front surface of the FPC supporting portion and further beyond an end portion of the FPC supporting portion. When the printed board is mounted on the disk enclosure, a connector terminal contacts and gives pressure to an FPC terminal formed in the FPC terminal area. This causes the FPC terminal area to flex in the direction of an arrow.