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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2007
Applicants:
Ki-tag Jeong, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Yong-chul Yoo, Suwon-si, KR;
Yoon-gyu Kam, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/55 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A head gimbal assembly (HGA) of a hard disk drive (HDD) includes a flexure, a slider attached to the flexure and including a magnetic head, a plurality of pads at a side of the slider, a plurality of traces attached to and supported by the flexure and respectively bonded to the pads to form an electrically continuous circuit therebetween, and an insulating support element covering a bonding region between the pads and the traces.