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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Nhk Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Tadashi Tokiwa, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoki Moriya, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/4833 (2013.01); G11B 5/4826 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49021 (2015.01);
Abstract
A positioning method positions a flexure whose front end side is joined to an outside frame with respect to a load beam, keeps the positioned state of the flexure and load beam, plastically deforms the outside frame to bend the front end side of the flexure so that the position of a tongue of the flexure is adjusted to the position of a dimple of the load beam, and joins the flexure and load beam to each other to keep the position adjusted state of the tongue.