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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2010
Jon E. Jacoby, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Gustafson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jon E. Jacoby, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Gustafson, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A novel disk drive includes a hermetically sealed helium-filled enclosure that has an opening extending through the disk drive base. A laminated electrical connector is disposed inside the enclosure, spans the opening, and is accessible from outside the disk drive base via the opening. The laminated electrical connector has an adhesive layer that is adhered to the disk drive base continuously around the opening, and that has a hole therethrough that is aligned with the opening. The laminated electrical connector includes electrically conductive traces that are electrically connected to the actuator flex cable, and a first insulative layer that is disposed on the trace layer. The laminated electrical connector has a metal foil sealing layer that continuously spans and completely covers the opening, and that has no holes therethrough that are aligned with the opening. The metal foil sealing layer overlaps the adhesive layer continuously around the opening.