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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2012
Tzong-shii Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Shufun Ho, Fremont, CA (US);
Tzong-Shii Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Shufun Ho, Fremont, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an alignment comb and a subassembly of a head stack assembly for a hard disk drive using the alignment comb. The subassembly includes a flexible printed circuit (FPC) having a plurality of first apertures, a flexure configured to be coupled to the FPC, the flexure having a second aperture configured to overlap a corresponding one of the first apertures, and an alignment comb including a plurality of fingers configured to align the FPC with the flexure, the plurality of fingers being spaced apart in a first direction and a finger of the plurality of fingers configured to extend into the corresponding one of the first apertures and the second aperture.