Patent ID: 8760812

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a disk drive base; a disk rotably mounted to the disk drive base; an actuator rotably mounted to the disk drive base, the actuator including a flexible printed circuit (FPC) that includes a FPC substrate layer and a FPC conductive layer, the FPC conductive layer including a plurality of FPC electrical traces leading to a plurality of electrically conductive FPC bond pads; and at least one head gimbal assembly attached to the actuator, the at least one head gimbal assembly comprising a read head; a load beam; and a laminated flexure that comprises a flexure structural layer, a flexure dielectric layer, and a flexure conductive layer that includes a plurality of flexure electrical traces, the flexure dielectric layer being disposed between the flexure structural layer and the flexure conductive layer, the laminate flexure including a tongue portion that connects to the read head, the laminated flexure including a flexure tail having an overlap region that overlaps the FPC; wherein the flexure tail includes a plurality of flexure bond pads in the overlap region, each of the plurality of flexure bond pads being aligned with a corresponding one of the plurality of FPC bond pads; and wherein the flexure structural layer includes a jumper in the overlap region, the jumper being electrically connected to at least two of the plurality of flexure electrical traces in the flexure conductive layer, the jumper being disposed at least 50 microns from any of the plurality of FPC electrical traces and at least 50 microns from any of the plurality of electrically conductive FPC bond pads.