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US 12,658,205 B2Granted
Suspension assembly and disk device
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
InventorsRyogo Hoshi, Takuma Kido
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member provided on the support plate and including an elastically deformable gimbal portion including a tongue portion on which a magnetic head is mounted and an outrigger connected to the tongue portion, and a viscoelastic material filled into a gap between the outrigger and the support plate and forming a damper.
Claims10
A suspension assembly comprising:
- a support plate;
- a wiring member provided on the support plate and comprising an elastically deformable gimbal portion including a tongue portion on which a magnetic head is mounted and an outrigger connected to the tongue portion, the outrigger including an overlapping portion located to overlap the support plate and a through hole made in the overlapping portion and opposing the support plate;
- and
- a viscoelastic material filled into a gap between the overlapping portion and the support plate and into the through hole and constituting a damper.
1 more element
A disk device comprising:
- a disk-shaped recording medium including a recording layer;
- and
- a head actuator including a suspension assembly,
- the suspension assembly comprising:
- a support plate;
- a wiring member provided on the support plate, comprising:
- an elastically deformable gimbal portion including a tongue portion on which a magnetic head is mounted and an outrigger connected to the tongue portion;
- and
- a viscoelastic material filled into a gap between the outrigger and the support plate to form a damper, wherein
- the outrigger includes an overlapping portion located to overlap the support plate and a through hole made in the overlapping portion and opposing the support plate, and
- the viscoelastic material is filled into the gap between the overlapping portion and the support plate and into the through hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.