Patent ID: 7688548

Claim:
A hard disk drive comprising: a housing; at least one disk mounted to the housing; an actuator mounted to the housing and being movable relative to the at least one disk, the actuator having a suspension for reaching over the disk, the suspension having a head gimbal assembly thereon, said hard disk drive providing a method for utilizing an interlocking dissimilar metal component comprising aluminum and stainless steel in the formation of a hard disk drive comprising: providing a hard disk drive component having at least one interlocking dissimilar metal component comprising aluminum and stainless steel, said at least one interlocking dissimilar metal component having at least a portion of said aluminum and said stainless steel on a single side, said interlocking dissimilar metal component comprising: a first layer of said stainless steel having holes therein; and a first layer of said aluminum, wherein said aluminum is compressed with said stainless steel and portions of said first layer of aluminum fill the holes in said stainless steel to form said interlocking dissimilar metal component; and utilizing said interlocking dissimilar metal component to provide a similar materials weld location for coupling two dissimilar metals to a single side surface of said at least one interlocking dissimilar metal hard disk drive component.