Patent ID: 7706107

Claim:
A hard disk drive, comprising: a disk base; a flexible printed circuit bracket, comprising a crash stop rubber and an air block, both rigidly aligned to a ribbon cable connector site, and to a flex mounting interface, and at least one means for attaching to a disk base rigidly, with said flexible printed circuit bracket coupled to a flexible printed circuit, said flexible printed circuit further coupling to an actuator arm block in an actuator assembly and rigidly mounted to said disk base; said air block forms an airfoil for directing an airflow away from a head gimbal assembly attached to said actuator assembly to minimize positional variance of a read-write head included said head gimbal assembly; and said crash stop rubber is aligned for coupling to a crash stop stub on said actuator assembly to stop said actuator assembly from swinging away from a rotating disk surface; wherein said airflow is induced by a rotating disk surface near said head gimbal assembly.