Patent ID: 6587310
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: G11B,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A trace interconnect that is sized and adapted to be attached to a magnetic head suspension that has a length in a Y direction and a width in an X direction, in which the trace interconnect is substrate-free, self-supporting, and adapted to provide at least one conductive path between distal and proximal ends of the magnetic head suspension, and in which the head suspension has a non-planar contour such that at least part of its surface lies other than in a single plane along the X and Y directions, the trace interconnect comprising at least one conductor, the conductor having:a portion near a proximal end sized and adapted to be secured near the proximal end of the head suspension, a portion near a distal end sized and adapted to be secured near the distal end of the head suspension, and an intermediate region between the proximal and distal ends of the conductor, at least a portion along the length of the intermediate region of the conductor being formed with a set contour that matches at least part of the non-planar contour of the head suspension to which the conductor is to be attached, and wherein the set contour of the conductor is present without support from a load beam.