Suspension and head gimbal assembly
OwnerTakeshi Wada, Masashi Shiraishi +2inventors
InventorsTakeshi Wada, Masashi Shiraishi, Norikazu Ota, Takashi Honda
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Abstract
An HGA includes a magnetic head slider with at least one thin-film magnetic head element, a drive IC chip with a circuit for the at least one thin-film magnetic head element, a resilient flexure made of a stainless steel for supporting the magnetic head slider and the drive IC chip, a load beam made of a high-thermal-conductivity material with a higher thermal conductivity than that of the stainless steel, supporting the flexure, a base plate, and a hinge made of a stainless steel, fixed to a base section of the load beam and to the base plate, for applying a predetermined load to the magnetic head slider.
Claims4
A suspension comprising:
- a resilient flexure made of a stainless steel for supporting a magnetic head slider with at least one thin-film magnetic head element and a drive IC chip with a circuit for said at least one thin-film magnetic head element;
- a load beam made of a high-thermal-conductivity material with a higher thermal conductivity than that of the stainless steel, supporting said flexure;
- a base plate;
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- a hinge made of a stainless steel, fixed to a base section of said load beam and to said base plate, for applying a predetermined load to said magnetic head slider.
A head gimbal assembly comprising:
- a magnetic head slider with at least one thin-film magnetic head element;
- a drive IC chip with a circuit for said at least one thin-film magnetic head element;
- a resilient flexure made of a stainless steel for supporting said magnetic head slider and said drive IC chip;
- a load beam made of a high-thermal-conductivity material with a higher thermal conductivity than that of the stainless steel, supporting said flexure;
- a base plate;
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- a hinge made of a stainless steel, fixed to a base section of said load beam and to said base plate, for applying a predetermined load to said magnetic head slider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.