Flexure with varying thickness for magnetic storage device
AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsYoshinobu Noguchi, Hiroyasu Tsuchida, Kia Teo, Kohei Arakawa
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Abstract
Examples of the present disclosure include a head-gimbal assembly for a magnetic storage device. The head-gimbal assembly includes a load beam, a read-write head, and an actuator configured to cause the read-write head to move. The head-gimbal assembly includes a flexure attached to the actuator. The flexure includes an actuator side facing the actuator and a recess formed in the actuator side and at least partially overlapping with the actuator along a virtual plane that is substantially perpendicular to a length of the load beam.
Claims20
A head-gimbal assembly for a magnetic storage device, the head-gimbal assembly comprising:
- a load beam;
- a read-write head;
- an actuator configured to cause the read-write head to move;
- and
- a flexure attached to the actuator and comprising:
- an actuator side facing the actuator;
- and
- a recess formed in the actuator side and at least partially overlapping with the actuator along a virtual plane that is substantially perpendicular to a length of the load beam.
A magnetic storage system, comprising:
- a quantity of disks;
- and
- a head-gimbal assembly, comprising:
- a read-write head;
- and
- a suspension assembly comprising:
- a base plate;
- a load beam attached to the base plate;
- an actuator configured to cause the read-write head to move toward a disk of the quantity of disks;
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- a flexure attached to the actuator and comprising:
- an actuator side facing the actuator;
- and
- a recess formed in the actuator side and at least partially overlapping with the actuator along a virtual plane that is substantially perpendicular to a length of the load beam.
A method of manufacturing a head-gimbal assembly of a magnetic storage device, the method comprising:
- attaching an actuator to a means for at least partially insetting the actuator on an actuator side of a flexure, wherein the actuator is configured to cause a read-write head attached to the flexure to move,
- wherein the actuator side of the flexure faces the actuator and the means for at least partially insetting the actuator at least partially overlaps with the actuator along a virtual plane that is substantially perpendicular to a length of a load beam attached to the flexure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.