Integrated lead suspension flexure for attaching a micro-actuator with a transducer slider

An integrated lead suspension for a micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto, having a plurality of electrical terminals, said integrated lead suspension comprising:

• a flexure including an attachment platform for attaching said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto;
• a load beam supporting said flexure;
• two elongate cantilever compliance members extending from opposite edges of said attachment platform, each having a cantilever end at said attachment platform and having a distal end;
• two lead termination platforms, one at each distal end of said cantilever compliance members;
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• a plurality of electrical leads, ones of said leads separately supported by each of said two lead termination platforms for electrically connecting to ones of said plurality of electrical terminals at opposite ends of said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto.

A transducer slider and suspension assembly comprising:

• a micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto, having a plurality of electrical terminals;
• a flexure including an attachment platform for attaching said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto;
• a load beam supporting said flexure;
• two elongate cantilever compliance members extending from opposite edges of said attachment platform, each having a cantilever end at said attachment platform and having a distal end;
• two lead termination platforms, one at each distal end of said cantilever compliance members;
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• a plurality of electrical leads, ones of said leads separately supported by each of said two lead termination platforms for electrically connecting to ones of said plurality of electrical terminals at opposite ends of said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto.

A data recording disk drive comprising:

• at least one disk with at least one data surface of concentric data tracks;
• a motor for rotating said disk about an axis generally perpendicular to said disk;
• a micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto positioned adjacent to said data surface for reading data from and writing data to said data surface, said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto having a plurality of electrical terminals;
• an actuator for moving said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto generally radially relative to said data surface;
• an electronics module for processing data read by and written by said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto and for supplying signals to said micro-actuator;
• a flexure including an attachment platform for attaching said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto;
• a load beam attached to said actuator supporting said flexure;
• two elongate cantilever compliance members extending from opposite edges of said attachment platform, each having a cantilever end at said attachment platform and having a distal end;
• two lead termination platforms, one at each distal end of said cantilever compliance members;
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• a plurality of electrical leads interconnecting said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto and said electronics module, ones of said leads separately supported by each of said two lead termination platforms for electrically connecting to ones of said plurality of electrical terminals at opposite ends of said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto.