Patent ID: 6373709
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: B82Y,G11B,H05K

Abstract:
A flexible wiring board which is adapted to be connected to (1) a suspension substrate having mounted thereon a magnetic head of a hard disk drive and (2) a control circuit substrate for actuating said magnetic head, said flexible wiring board comprising:an insulating layer; a predetermined circuit pattern of wires formed in said insulating layer and extending in parallel along a longitudinal direction of the flexible wiring board; a shorting member formed in said flexible wiring board and bridging wires of said predetermined circuit pattern to prevent electrostatic destruction of said magnetic head; and a cut in the form of a perforation bridging said wires and formed in said insulating layer along a widthwise direction of the flexible wiring board for removing a portion of said flexible wiring board having said shorting member formed therein.