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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Applicant:
Reed T. Hentges, Buffalo, MN (US);
Inventor:
Reed T. Hentges, Buffalo, MN (US);
Assignee:
Hutchinson Technology Incorporated, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated lead head suspension flexure including a spring metal base layer, an insulating layer on the base layer and traces on the insulating layer. The traces include first and second adjacent and co-planar write traces and first and second shield traces. The shielding traces are on opposite sides of the write traces, electrically interconnected and generally co-planar with the write traces. Portions of the stainless steel layer below the traces include windows. The shield traces can be connected to ground and/or to the spring metal base layer.