IP Library Granted Patent US 7,016,156
Granted Patent B2
US 7,016,156 · App. 10/961,035 · Granted Mar 21, 2006

Disk drive having magnetic head conduction paths with arrangements to control impedance

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Patent No.
US 7,016,156
App. No.
10/961,035
Granted
Mar 21, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

Magnetic disk apparatus includes an electric wiring capable of satisfying an electric condition under which high frequency recording higher than or equal to 200 MHz, a magnetic head having at least a recording device to a magnetic recording medium, and also the electric wiring corresponding to a recording current supplying device to this magnetic head are formed on a suspension member for mechanically suspending the magnetic head, the recording current being supplied to a magnetic head recording device by employing such electric wiring, the characteristic impedance of which is higher than a maximum impedance of the magnetic head recording device.

Claims (14)

1. A magnetic disk apparatus comprising:

a magnetic recording medium;

a magnetic recording head suspended by a suspension member and provided opposite to a surface of said magnetic recording medium;

a reproducing head suspended by the suspension member and provided opposite to the surface of said magnetic recording medium;

a recording/reproducing circuit;

a first electric wiring pair formed above said suspension member, connecting said recording/reproducing circuit and said magnetic recording head;

a second electric wiring pair formed above said suspension member, connecting said recording/reproducing circuit and said reproducing head;

an arm supporting said suspension member;

a carriage holding said arm;

a rotary actuator driving said carriage; and

a spindle motor rotating said magnetic recording medium; wherein:

an interval between the electric wirings which constitute said first electric wiring pair is made wider than an interval between the electric wirings which constitute said second electric wiring pair.

2. A magnetic disk apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:

the characteristic impedance of the electric wiring pair for said magnetic recording element is higher than impedance of said magnetic recording element.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 5, 2016
From: HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
To: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 040819/0450 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2006
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD.
Reel/Frame 017331/0825 →