US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 12 for "Flexible printed circuit finger layout for low crosstalk" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,264, issued on May 12, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Flexible printed circuit finger layout for low crosstalk" was invented by Masahiro Kishimoto (Fujisawa, Japan), John Contreras (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kazuhiro Nagaoka (Fujisawa, Japan) and Satoshi Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit (FPC) for a hard disk drive includes a plurality of electrical traces, whereby aggressor traces are isolated from victim traces to avoid crosstalk that could degrade signals. Aggressor traces may be positioned together at one of the edges of each of the top wiring laye...