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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Hideto Imai, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshio Uematsu, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/596 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/4833 (2013.01); G11B 5/4873 (2013.01);
Abstract
Approaches to a flexure gimbal assembly for a hard-disk drive (HDD), having a feature for reducing the risk of electrical shorts, include a flexure having an electrically conductive layer and an insulating layer having a flexure tongue with which one or more microactuator piezo actuating device is coupled, where the flexure tongue comprises a gap positioned to inhibit contact between the conductive adhesive and the conductive layer of the flexure which may otherwise cause an electrical short.