Slider and suspension arm interconnection for magnetic storage device

US10460754B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Yuhsuke Matsumoto · Fujisawa, JP
• Kenichi Murata · Yokohama, JP
• Adisak Tokaew
• David Druist · Santa Clara, US
• Glenn P. Gee · San Jose, US
• Mark D. Moravec · Gilroy, US
• Michael Ranes · Calamba, PH
• Peter Paolo Dilla · Santa Rosa, PH

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 5, 2018
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 5, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49027
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a suspension arm co-movably fixed to a carriage arm. The suspension arm comprises a slider attachment side and at least one first electrical contact pad on the slider attachment side. The suspension arm also comprises a slider co-movably fixed to the suspension arm. The slider comprises a suspension attachment side, a non-head side facing the suspension arm and intersecting the suspension attachment side at a first slider edge of the slider, a head side facing away from the suspension arm, and at least one electrical contact component on the suspension attachment side up to the first slider edge. At least one solder weldment is directly coupled to the at least one first electrical contact pad and the at least one electrical contact component. Additionally, a read-write head is coupled to the head side of the slider.