Patent ID: 8295013

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a disk drive base; a disk rotably mounted to the disk drive base; a head stack assembly (HSA) rotably mounted to the disk drive base, the HSA including an actuator body, at least one actuator arm extending from the actuator body, and a flexible printed circuit (FPC), the FPC including a first plurality of FPC traces, each being electrically conductive and having a distal portion that terminates at a respective one of a first plurality of FPC bond pads that are electrically conductive; a second plurality of FPC traces, each being electrically conductive and terminating at a respective one of a second plurality of FPC bond pads that are electrically conductive, wherein a first width of at least one of the first plurality of FPC traces is greater than a second width of at least one of the second plurality of FPC traces; wherein the distal portion of the at least one of the first plurality FPC traces includes a first opening therethrough; and at least one head gimbal assembly comprising a read head; and a suspension assembly attached to the at least one actuator arm, the suspension assembly comprising a load beam, and a laminate flexure that includes a plurality of electrically conductive flexure traces that each terminate at a respective one of a plurality of electrically conductive flexure bond pads, the plurality of electrically conductive flexure bond pads being bonded to the first and second pluralities of FPC bond pads.