Patent ID: 8320084

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 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; and a suspension assembly that comprises a load beam, and a laminate flexure that comprises a structural layer, a dielectric layer, and a conductive layer that includes a plurality of electrical traces, the laminate flexure including a tongue portion that connects to the read head and a flexure tail that extends to the plurality of FPC bond pads; wherein the flexure tail includes a plurality of flexure bond pads, each of the plurality of flexure bond pads being aligned with a corresponding one of the plurality of FPC bond pads; and wherein each of the plurality of flexure bond pads includes a widened region of a corresponding one of the plurality of electrical traces in the conductive layer, and a corresponding one of a plurality of discontinuous islands in the structural layer.