Patent ID: 6934126

Claim:
A disk drive, comprising: a disk drive housing including a base; a disk rotatably attached to the base; a printed circuit board coupled to the base and including a plurality of circuit board pads; a head stack assembly pivotally coupled to the base about a pivot axis, the head stack assembly including: a head for reading and writing to the disk; a flex cable assembly, including a flexible film including a plurality of conductive traces that are electrically coupled to the head, the flexible film including a connecting portion in which each of the plurality of conductive traces defines a trace pad, each trace pad being disposed on a surface of the flexible film that is generally parallel to the pivot axis, and a flex-to-board connector attached to the base, the flex-to-board connector being configured to couple to the connecting portion of the flexible film and to maintain the surface of the flexible film on which the trace pads are disposed in an orientation that is generally parallel to the pivot axis, the flex-to-board connector including a plurality of conductive fingers, each conductive finger being configured to electrically connect one of the trace pads to a corresponding one of the plurality of circuit board pads.