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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Takehiro Kamigama, Kowloon, HK;
Inventor:
Takehiro Kamigama, Kowloon, HK;
Assignee:
SAE Magnetics (H. K.) Ltd., Hong Kong, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/127 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for improving suspension-to-slider attachment in a hard disk drive. A slider having a number of bond pads on its leading edge and a number of bond pads on its trailing edge is to be coupled to a suspension flexure having a number of leading bond pads and a number of trailing bond pads. The slider is to be coupled to the suspension flexure at the leading bond pads and the trailing bond pads by a method such as gold ball, solder ball, or solder bump bonding.