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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Yasuji Takagi, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyuki Saitoh, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Nojima, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Fuchino, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuji Takagi, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyuki Saitoh, Yokohama, JP;
Akira Nojima, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Fuchino, Yokohama, JP;
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A head suspension for a disk drive includes a plate that is easily and correctly be attached to a carriage of the disk drive and improves the attaching accuracy and strength of the head suspension to the carriage. The head suspension includes the plate and a load beam. The plate has a boss that is formed separately from the plate. The boss has a base fixed to the plate and a protrusion fitted into a hole of a carriage arm of the carriage. The plate has a through hole. The base of the boss is fitted into the through hole and is fixed to the plate. Under this state, the protrusion of the boss protrudes from a first face of the plate, and the base of the boss protrudes from a second face of the plate. An end face of the base of the boss serves as a contact face for jig.