Plated base plate for suspension assembly in hard disk drive

For use in a disk head assembly for supporting read/write heads adjacent rotating disks in a disk drive, a one piece, metal swage mount for attaching a load beam assembly to a head actuator arm comprising:

• a metal flange portion;
• and,
• a metal hub portion;
• said hub being plated with metal on at least an outer surface of said metal hub portion;
• an outer diameter of said metal plated hub being such that said hub can be inserted into a load beam boss hole in said load beam with said flange portion of said swage mount welded to said load beam.

A device for supporting a transducer in operating position over a recording medium, said device comprising;

• an arm assembly movable about a pivot;
• said arm assembly comprising an actuator arm supported at one end at said pivot, and a load beam for connection to an end opposite said one end of said actuator arm;
• said load beam including a load beam boss hole;
• said actuator arm including an actuator arm boss hole of a given diameter, said load beam boss hole and actuator arm boss hole being superimposed at a connection of said load beam and said actuator arm thereby forming coaxial holes;
• and,
• a swage mount for connecting said actuator arm and said load beam;
• said swage mount including a metal flange portion and a hub comprised of a base metal;
• said hub including a metal plated layer on an outside surface of said hub, said hub extending through said coaxial holes.

A component for use in swage mounting, comprising:

• a swage mount having a first side and a second side;
• and,
• a hub extending from said second side of said swage mount;
• said hub having an inner surface and an outer surface;
• said outer surface of said hub including a number of protrusions that are from 0.5 to 50 microns in height;
• said hub being plated with metal on at least said outer surface to a thickness that at least partially covers said protrusions.