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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:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1997
John B Symons, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Raymond R Wolter, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Hutchinson Technology Inc., Hutchinson, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a magnetic disk drive head suspension of the type having a load beam and a flexure, including an alignment measurement pattern on either the load beam or the flexure. The flexure is mounted to a distal end of the load beam, and the alignment measurement pattern is used to evaluate and quantify the position of the flexure relative to the load beam. The alignment measurement pattern includes a plurality of openings adjacent a tooling reference hole that are sized and positioned to expose the outer perimeter of a corresponding tooling reference hole. In this manner, the alignment measurement pattern provides an accurate assessment of the alignment between the load beam and the flexure by indicating the offset of the flexure tooling hole relative to the load beam tooling hole.