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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2002
Mark T. Girard, South Haven, MN (US);
Ryan A. Jurgenson, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Susan June Livermore, Legal Representative, Hutchinson, MN (US);
David R. Swift, Glencoe, MN (US);
Joseph P. Tracy, South Haven, MN (US);
Mark T. Girard, South Haven, MN (US);
Ryan A. Jurgenson, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Susan June Livermore, legal representative, Hutchinson, MN (US);
David R. Swift, Glencoe, MN (US);
Joseph P. Tracy, South Haven, MN (US);
Applied Kinetics, Inc., Hutchinson, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for assembling a head gimbal assembly useful in a hard disk drive and for testing such an assembly. In a method in accord with the present invention a head/slider is mounted to a circuited gimbal in an automated assembly machine. Following this step the head/slider circuited gimbal assembly will be subjected a dynamic electrical test with those head/slider circuited gimbal assemblies not passing being sorted from the lot. Following this step the head/slider circuited assembly will be attached to a suspension.