Patent ID: 6865055

Claim:
A shroud assembly for a disk drive that includes a rotatable disk, a printed circuit board, a data transfer head, an actuator assembly that positions the data transfer head with respect to the rotatable disk, and a flex cable that interconnects the actuator assembly and the printed circuit board, the flex cable having a first end connected to the actuator assembly and a second end connectable to the printed circuit board, the shroud assembly comprising: a disk shrouding portion; a cable mounting portion comprising a first surface and a second surface, the first surface configured to receive and to restrain a transition portion of the flex cable proximate to the second end, the second surface configured to receive the second end of the flex cable and to position the second end for engagement by the printed circuit board; and a cable shrouding portion configured to shield a spanning portion of the flex cable between the cable mounting portion and the actuator assembly from airflow generated by the rotation of the rotatable disk; wherein the spanning portion of the flex cable is unrestrained by the cable shrouding portion when the shroud assembly is applied to the disk drive.