Patent ID: 6172854
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam adapted to mount to an actuator arm extending from an actuator, said load beam having an aperture and a distal rigid portion, and supported by said load beam a flexure for carrying a slider, an electrical connector running substantially the length of said actuator arm and said load beam to said slider, said connector comprising an electrically integrated hybrid of different segments including a first flexible conductive laminate segment free of a metal support layer and supported by said actuator and connected to signal circuitry, a second flexible conductive laminate segment including a metal support layer that is supported by said load beam and connected to said slider, and a third flexible conductive laminate jumper segment that is supported by said actuator arm and connected between said first and second segments, said segments being arranged sequentially and in such manner that the slider head is electrically coupled to the signal circuitry by said first flexible conductive laminate segment at the proximal end of said load beam, by said second flexible conductor laminate segment at said load beam distal rigid portion, and by said jumper segment between said first and second segments, said second and third segments being respectively on opposite its sides of said load beam and connected to each other through said load beam aperture.