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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Seagate Technology Llc, Freemont, CA (US);
Rohit Deokar, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Razman Zambri, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Gary Berscheit, Watertown, MN (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A head gimbal assembly for supporting a disk drive includes a slider, a load beam, a ring gimbal affixed to the load beam, a plurality of microactuators, and a flexure. The flexure includes a first end extending along the load beam through a center region of a longitudinal axis of the head gimbal assembly and second end that includes a plurality of bond pads electrically coupled to the slider. The flexure includes a plurality of support features. Each support feature of the plurality of support features spans a respective microactuator of the plurality of microactuators. Each support feature includes a support protrusion and a support base. Each support protrusion is coupled to the ring gimbal at a distal side of the respective microactuator and each support base is coupled to the flex circuit on a proximal side of the respective microactuator.