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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/116 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/116 ;
Abstract
A base plate of a suspension for a disk drive includes a shear surface formed on one end of the base plate and a notch formed along the shear surface so as to contain the shear surface. The notch is formed on each of the obverse and reverse sides of the base plate. The notches are designed so that (&agr;+&bgr;)/t ranges from 0.3 to 0.5 it the respective depths of the two notches and the thickness of the base plate are &agr;, &bgr; and t, respectively.