Appeal No. 96-2181
Application No. 07/963,440
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final
rejection of claims 1, 3 through 13, 16, 17 and 19 through 28,
all of the claims pending in the present application. Claims
2, 14, 15, 18, 29 and 30 have been canceled.
The invention (shown in Figure 1) relates to a low
profile, high capacity disk drive (10) including a plurality
of disk surfaces (20) mounted in parallel for simultaneous
rotation about an axis. Each of a plurality of data
transducer heads (22), for reading and/or writing data to the
data surfaces (20), is attached to a slider (52 in Figure 5).
A supporting arm (32), for moving the data transducer heads in
a radial direction across the disk surfaces, is attached to a
suspension load beam (50). The suspension load beam (50)
includes a load dimple (74 in Figure 5) bearing on the slider
(52). Figure 6 shows a flexible cable interconnect (54) which
is used, instead of wires, for electrical connection to the
transducer heads (22). As shown in Figure 8, the dimple 74
extends through the flexure cable (54), bearing directly on
the slider. Additional features of the supporting arms,
-2-2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007