公开(公告)号：JP2000243076A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-08

申请号：JP3392999

申请日：1999-02-12

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ANDO KEIMEI ,  KITABORI HIRONORI ,  MATSUMURA SATOSHI ,  KUROKI KENJI ,  ALBRECHT THOMAS ,  DAVID ALBRECHT

IPC: G11B33/12 ,  G11B25/04 ,  H05K7/14 ,  H01R12/08

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a joning method enabling the joining of a flex cable and a circuit board which cannot be embodied with ordinary connectors on account of their dimensional restrictions in a hard disk device of an extremely small size/thin type and the hard disk device utilizing the same. SOLUTION: This joining method is the method for joining the flex cable 3 for transmitting the input and output signals to a head formed in a device body 1 of a hard disk and the circuit board 11. A groove part 2 is formed in the device body 1 and the connector 12 consisting of a projecting part of a shape insertable into the formed groove part 2 is formed at the circuit board 11. The joining part of the flex cable 3 and the connector 12 of the circuit board 11 are inserted into the groove part 2. The terminal 13 of the connector 12 and the terminal 4 of the joining part of the flex cable 3 are joined. The hard disk device has the joining part utilizing the joining method described above.