Flexure of disk drive suspension
AssigneeNHK Spring Co., Ltd.
InventorYukie Yamada
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Abstract
The flexure tail includes a tail body, a first bent portion extending in a width direction of the tail body, a second bent portion extending in a length direction of a flexure, a tail pad portion, a conductor bent portion where a direction of a conductor changes, an extension portion, and a test conducting portion. The test conducting portion includes a conductor connecting portion conductive to a conductor, a jumper conductor, and a test pad arranged in the extension portion. The jumper conductor has a first end portion connected to the conductor connecting portion, and a second end portion connected to the test pad.
Claims7
A flexure of a disk drive suspension, the flexure comprising a metal base, a base insulating layer formed on the metal base, and a conductor arranged on the base insulating layer, wherein the flexure has a flexure tail, and the flexure tail comprises:
- a tail body extending in a length direction of the flexure;
- a first bent portion extending in a width direction of the tail body from the tail body;
- a second bent portion extending in the length direction of the flexure from the first bent portion;
- a tail pad portion continuing from the second bent portion;
- a tail electrode arranged in the tail pad portion and conductive to the conductor;
- a conductor bent portion where a direction of the conductor changes along the first bent portion and the second bent portion;
- an extension portion extending in an opposite direction to the tail pad portion from the second bent portion and located outside the conductor bent portion;
- a conductor connecting portion conductive to the conductor;
- a jumper conductor having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion conductive to the conductor connecting portion;
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- a test terminal portion including a test pad arranged in the extension portion and conductive to the second end portion of the jumper conductor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.