US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Oct. 6 for "Solder tack bonding of hard disk drive actuator arm assemblies" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,757, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Solder tack bonding of hard disk drive actuator arm assemblies" was invented by Xiong Liu (Singapore), Lihong Zhang (Singapore), Barish Chakravarty (Singapore), Chee Yin Chan (Singapore) and Xiaolei Liao (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are actuator assemblies for use in hard disk drives (HDDs), and methods for making such actuator assemblies, in which solder tacks are used to fasten and secure the trace gimbal assembly (TGA) tail to the head stack arm assembly (HSA). Using one or more solder tacks as a mechanical connection rather tha...