US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on April 7 for "Flexible printed circuit finger trace layout for parallel servo operation" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,439, issued on April 7, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Flexible printed circuit finger trace layout for parallel servo operation" was invented by Masahiro Kishimoto (Fujisawa, Japan), Teruhiro Nakamiya (Setagaya, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan) and John Contreras (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit (FPC) for a hard disk drive includes a first preamplifier electrically connected to first read-write transducers and a second preamplifier electrically connected to second read-write transducers, where all transducers are driven via a single primary...