Patent ID: 6075674
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: G11B,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A head suspension assembly having a load beam and a plurality of wires each having a covering contacting an outer surface of the wire, the wires passing through a tube and being configured to connect to a head slider when the head slider is mounted on the load beam, the head suspension assembly comprising:(a) a filler which fills a space between the tube and the covered wires at a clamping portion of the tube, wherein the tube is substantially transparent to ultraviolet light frequencies and the filler comprises a compound curable by the ultraviolet light frequencies; and(b) securing means for exerting a clamping force on said tube at the clamping portion of the tube, the clamping force exerted by said securing means at the clamping portion of the tube producing a friction force between the filler and the covered wires to inhibit movement of the covered wires and securing the tube against the load beam without substantially deforming a cross-sectional configuration of the clamping portion of the tube.