Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Discharging or preventing accumulation of electric charge
Patent
1997-07-05
1999-10-05
Fleming, Fritz
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Discharging or preventing accumulation of electric charge
361220, H05F 300
Patent
active
059634154
ABSTRACT:
An electrostatic discharge protection device is disclosed for use with a magnetic read-write transducer. The electrostatic discharge protection device electrically interconnects the conductive elements of magnetoresistive and inductive heads to provide a low resistance conductive path placing the conductive elements at a substantially equal electrical potential thus minimizing electrostatic discharge. The electrostatic discharge protection device provides an electrical path between the conductive elements which is manually or automatically removable upon connection to a mating element. The electrostatic discharge protection device has a resilient inward biased to connect the electrically conductive elements such that a ground is established between them and is removed automatically upon insertion of the conductive elements into a mating receptacle which is interposed between the conductive elements and the electrostatic discharge protection device or is manually disconnected.
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Fleming Fritz
Gaiman Barry
Polaroid Corporation
Stecewycz Joseph T.
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