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US 5,969,905 AGranted
Flexure bias-free end lift suspension
AssigneeMagnecomp Corporation
InventorsAlejandro Koji Iwamoto, Amanullah Khan, Warren Coon
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AssigneeMagnecomp Corporation
InventorsAlejandro Koji Iwamoto, Amanullah Khan, Warren Coon
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A liftable disk drive suspension load beam of spring steel comprises a base portion, a spring portion, an elongated beam portion having left and right edge rails, and a lift tip beyond the elongated beam portion. The beam portion has a longitudinally disposed flexure support tongue defining an attachment locus for attaching a flexure in cantilevered relation and having a situs for gimballing dimple contact with the flexure. The beam portion has left and right continued extents on either side of the tongue, these continued extents being, free of connection to said the support tongue fore and aft of the flexure attachment locus, the extents being joined beyond the attachment locus to support the lift tip from the elongated beam portion. The flexure tongue provides the flexure freedom of gimballing movement free of interference from the lift tip and the continued extents.
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