Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.
Flex cable, head suspension assembly, and hard disk drive
A flexible cable assembly (FCA) has a flexible cable, first and second brackets attached to the flexible cable, and a band for holding the first and second brackets while the flexible cable is folded back and the first and second brackets overlap. The band is detachably mounted to the first and second brackets to facilitate efficient manufacturing and disassembly methods. The FCA may be implemented at various manufacturing stages including the head suspension assembly (HSA) or the entire hard disk drive (HDD) assembly.
International Business Machines Corporation
G G G
G11B G11B G11B
inventional inventional inventional
Jun Keiichiroh Naoaki Hitoshi
Ishikawa Yoshida Kanada Tsujino