Patent ID: 8194348

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a hermetically sealed enclosure including a disk drive base and a top cover attached to the disk drive base, the enclosure being helium-filled and having an opening extending through the disk drive base; a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base; a head actuator disposed in the enclosure and including a voice coil motor; a flex cable being disposed in the enclosure and being attached to the head actuator, the flex cable being electrically connected to the voice coil motor; and a laminated electrical connector disposed inside the enclosure, the laminated electrical connector spanning the opening and being accessible from outside the disk drive base via the opening, the laminated electrical connector comprising a plurality of layers, the plurality of layers including an adhesive layer adhered to the disk drive base continuously around the opening, the adhesive layer having a hole therethrough that is aligned with the opening; a trace layer that includes a plurality of electrically conductive traces including a first subset of electrically conductive traces that are electrically connected to the flex cable; a first insulative layer disposed on the trace layer; a metal foil sealing layer that continuously spans and completely covers the opening, the metal foil sealing layer having no holes therethrough that are aligned with the opening, the metal foil sealing layer overlapping the adhesive layer continuously around the opening, the trace layer and the first insulative layer being disposed between the metal foil sealing layer and the adhesive layer; and a stiffener layer, the metal foil sealing layer being disposed between the stiffener layer and the adhesive layer.