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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2006
Masao Hanya, Aikoh-gun, JP;
Eiji Watadani, Aikoh-gun, JP;
Ichiro Takadera, Aikoh-gun, JP;
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A head suspension for a hard disk drive has an arm to be attached to a carriage of the hard disk drive and turned around a spindle, a load beam including a rigid part and a resilient part, to apply load onto a head that is arranged at a tip end thereof to write and read data to and from a disk arranged in the hard disk drive, a base end of the rigid part supported on the arm side through the resilient part, and a flexure having read/write wiring patterns connected to the head, the flexure supporting the head and attached to a disk side face of the rigid part, the resilient part at least separated from the arm side and fixed to an opposite disk side face on the arm side and the flexure fixed to a disk side face on the arm side.