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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 1997
Filed:
May. 02, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tracy M Hagen, Edina, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360104 ;
Abstract
A flexure for mounting a head in a hard disc drive. The gimbal of the flexure includes a load point tab which retains the full thickness of the original flexure material for most of its area and further includes a thinned area local to and surrounding a desired location for a load point button. The thinned area is formed out-of-plane from the remainder of the flexure by approximately one-half the material thickness. The size of the thinned area is selected to be such that the thinned area is substantially non-compliant under intended load forces.