Machine Vision Assistance for Flex Cable-Actuator Comb Manufacturing in Hard Disk Drives

Author

Chang, J.Y. ; Shen, J.Y.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., Massey Univ., Auckland

fYear

2008

fDate

2-4 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

200

Abstract

The work presented in this paper suggests an automated manufacturing method for assembling of flexible printed circuit cable assembly onto actuator comb-like structure in high capacity hard disk drives. Apart from traditional alignment methods, robotic vision guided method and assembling system are developed and discussed in this paper. Its capabilities of reaching micro-scale position and alignment accuracy are demonstrated in modern disk drive manufacturing lines along with proven significant lower drive-to-drive flex cable dynamic performance variation.

Keywords

actuators; disc drives; hard discs; robot vision; robotic assembly; alignment accuracy; automated manufacturing; drive-to-drive flex cable dynamic performance variation; flex cable-actuator comb manufacturing; flexible printed circuit cable assembly; hard disk drives; machine vision assistance; microscale position; robotic vision; Actuators; Flexible manufacturing systems; Flexible printed circuits; Hard disks; Machine vision; Manufacturing automation; Pulp manufacturing; Robot vision systems; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2008. M2VIP 2008. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Auckland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3779-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-473-13532-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMVIP.2008.4749532

Filename

4749532