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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
May. 03, 2002
Mark T. Girard, South Haven, MN (US);
Joseph P. Tracy, South Haven, MN (US);
David R. Swift, Glencoe, MN (US);
Ryan A. Jurgenson, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Mark T. Girard, South Haven, MN (US);
Joseph P. Tracy, South Haven, MN (US);
David R. Swift, Glencoe, MN (US);
Ryan A. Jurgenson, Hutchinson, MN (US);
Applied Kinetics, Inc., Hutchinson, MN (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for determining and adjusting the static attitude of a head suspension or a head suspension assembly for use in a dynamic storage device. An apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a workpiece support and an adjust device, operatively positioned with respect to the workpiece support, for adjusting the head suspension. The adjust device includes first and second clamp portions for restraining a gimbal arm and an adjust body for deforming the restrained gimbal arm while the gimbal arm is restrained by the first and second clamp portions. A method in accordance with the present invention includes determining the planar orientation of a surface indicative of the static attitude of the slider mounting tongue or a slider mounted thereto and controllably deforming an individual gimbal arm of the flexure independently from another gimbal arm of the flexure to introduce a permanent deformation of the gimbal arm thereby adjusting the static attitude of the slider mounting tongue or slider if present.