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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2003
Applicants:
Paul W. Poorman, Meridian, ID (US);
Ralph F. Simmons, Jr., Boise, ID (US);
Lawrence A. Hansen, Meridian, ID (US);
Inventors:
Paul W. Poorman, Meridian, ID (US);
Ralph F. Simmons, Jr., Boise, ID (US);
Lawrence A. Hansen, Meridian, ID (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for electrically coupling read elements and write elements of a tape head assembly to another component includes an interconnect structure having plural layers of traces, with the traces comprising write traces electrically connected to respective write elements, and read traces electrically connected to respective read elements. The write traces and read traces are interleaved across a dimension of the interconnect structure.