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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2008
Applicant:
Takashi Horiuchi, Aikoh-gun, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Horiuchi, Aikoh-gun, JP;
Assignee:
NHK Spring Co., Ltd, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A load beam is capable of securing a required level of positioning accuracy for a slider, a load beam has a body and a dimple, the body is made of a plate having a first surface and a second surface, the dimple has a convex curved surface protruding from the first surface of the body and supports a slider so that the slider is movable in predetermined directions to write and read information to and from a disk in a disk drive, and the load beam includes a mark formed on the second surface of the body, configured to provide positional information about a vertex of the dimple.