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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark T. Girard, South Haven, MN (US);
Assignee:
Applied Kinetics, Inc., Hutchinson, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/48 ;
Abstract
The present invention includes a polymeric/copper ring gimbal adhesively attached to a load beam. Such a gimbal further includes at least one deformation inhibiter for inhibiting and/or preventing the deformation of the gimbal, such deformation inhibiters comprising a forwardly or distally extending non-water absorbent appendage. Such a deformation inhibiting appendage may be an extension of the conductive traces forming the electrical pathway on the gimbal.