Patent ID: 9530439
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G11B,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of assembling a head stack assembly for a disk drive, the method comprising: providing an actuator including at least one actuator arm and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) that includes a plurality of electrically conductive FPC bond pads; attaching at least one head gimbal assembly to the at least one actuator arm, the at least one head gimbal assembly comprising positioning the flexure tail so that a terminal region of the flexure tail overlaps the FPC, the flexure tail terminal region being bounded by an outer edge, the flexure tail terminal region including a plurality of flexure bond pads in electrical communication with the head, each of the plurality of flexure bond pads including contacting the outer edge with an alignment tool within 50 microns of at least one of the discontinuous edge stiffener islands.