System and method for manufacture of a hard disk drive arm and bonding of magnetic head to suspension on a drive arm

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for the manufacture of a hard disk drive arm and the bonding of magnetic head to suspension on the drive arm.

1 . A system for manufacturing a data storage device comprising: 
 a placement device to physically stabilize a hard drive head device for electrical bonding of said head device to a hard drive arm component, wherein    said placement device utilizes sub-ambient pressure to maintain the position of said head device with respect to said arm component for said electrical bonding.    
   
   
       2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said hard drive head device is a hard disk drive magnetic head.  
   
   
       3 . The system of  claim 2 , wherein said hard drive arm component is a suspension tongue.  
   
   
       4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said electrical bonding is ball bonding.  
   
   
       5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein said electrical bonding is a type selected from the group consisting of gold ball bonding (GBB), solder bump bonding (SBB), ultrasonic welding, and stitch bonding.  
   
   
       6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein said placement device includes a first vacuum tube structure for providing said sub-ambient pressure to affix said first vacuum tube structure to said head device.  
   
   
       7 . The system of  claim 6 , further comprising an alignment pin protruding from said placement device.  
   
   
       8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein said alignment pin is capable of being inserted into a suspension tooling hole for ensuring said proper alignment.  
   
   
       9 . The system of  claim 7 , further comprising a second vacuum tube structure for providing sub-ambient pressure, wherein said first vacuum tube structure vacuum-couples to said head device and said second vacuum tube structure vacuum-couples to a suspension load beam attached to said arm component.  
   
   
       10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the first vacuum tube structure includes a step structure mate-able to an edge of the head device.  
   
   
       11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein said step structure is mate-able to one or more edges of said head device.  
   
   
       12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein said step structure is an integral structure of the first vacuum tube.  
   
   
       13 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein said step structure is an external structure.  
   
   
       14 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein said first vacuum tube structure is a material selected from the group consisting of Stainless Steel, Copper, Aluminum Oxide, Polyimide, and Ceramic.  
   
   
       15 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein said second vacuum tube structure is a material selected from the group consisting of Stainless Steel, Copper, Aluminum Oxide, Polyimide, and Ceramic.  
   
   
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