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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2007
Robert E. Fontana, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Sergey Kiselev, Moscow, RU;
Edward Hin Pong Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Donald Mackay, St. Martin le Vinoux, FR;
Surya Narayan Pattanaik, San Jose, CA (US);
Chie Ching Poon, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert E. Fontana, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Sergey Kiselev, Moscow, RU;
Edward Hin Pong Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth Donald Mackay, St. Martin le Vinoux, FR;
Surya Narayan Pattanaik, San Jose, CA (US);
Chie Ching Poon, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and systems for repeatably creating and severing a short circuit to protect an electronic component from ESD. A short circuit may be formed between read sensor pads of a read sensor by depositing a shorting material on a magnetic head using a Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) process. The short circuit may be unshorted using a laser scan configured to sever the shorting material. In one embodiment, a shorting station may be provided to prevent spreading of the shorting material to undesired areas of the electronic component.