Suspension, slider-suspension assembly, assembly carriage device and manufacturing method of suspension
AssigneesTDK Corporation, NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasashi Shiraishi, Shunichi Kudo, Haruyuki Morita, Akihiro Takei, Ichiro Takadera
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Abstract
A suspension includes a resilient flexure for supporting a magnetic head slider near its one end, and a load beam with a base end portion, for supporting the flexure. Particularly, connection conductors are formed on the flexure in a thin film pattern, and one ends of the connection conductors are to be connected to the magnetic head slider and the other ends of the connection conductors are positioned near the other end of the flexure. The other end of the flexure extends to at least a position of the base end portion of the load beam.
Claims22
A suspension comprising:
- a rigid metal load beam having a front end portion and a base end portion;
- a resilient metal flexure mounted on and supported by said rigid metal load beam, said resilient metal flexure extending from said front end portion of the rigid metal load beam to at least said base end portion of said rigid metal load beam, said resilient flexure adapted for supporting a magnetic head slider near one end thereof which is located at said front end portion of the rigid metal load beam;
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- connection conductors formed on and integral with said resilient metal flexure in a thin film pattern, said connection conductors being insulated from said resilient metal flexure by resin, one ends of said connection conductors being adapted for connection with said magnetic head slider and the other ends of said connection conductors being positioned near the other end of said resilient metal flexure near said base end portion of said rigid metal load beam.
A slider-suspension assembly comprising:
- a magnetic head slider;
- a rigid metal load beam having a front end portion and a base end portion;
- a resilient metal flexure mounted on and supported by said rigid metal load beam, said resilient metal flexure extending from said front end portion of the rigid metal load beam to at least said base end portion of said rigid metal load beam, said resilient metal flexure supporting said magnetic head slider near one end thereof which is located at said front end portion of the rigid metal load beam;
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- connection conductors formed on and integral with said resilient flexure in a thin film pattern, said connection conductors being insulated from said resilient metal flexure by resin, one ends of said connection conductors being connected to said magnetic head slider and the other ends of said connection conductors being positioned near the other end of said resilient metal flexure near said base end portion of said rigid metal load beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.