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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2007
Takuma Muraki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyasu Tsuchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoki Hiramatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeji Sumiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuma Muraki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyasu Tsuchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoki Hiramatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeji Sumiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a suspension assembly having a dielectric limiter. According to one embodiment, the suspension assembly includes a load beam and a flexure assembly. The flexure assembly includes a metal layer where there are formed a fixing portion fixed to the load beam, main rings, and extending from the fixing portion, sub-rings, and a flexure tongue having moving-side limiter coupling portions defined thereon. Fixing-side limiter coupling portions are defined at the main rings. Dielectric limiters each have a gross length larger than a between-coupling-portions distance between a fixing-side limiter coupling portion and a moving-side limiter coupling portion, and couple the fixing-side limiter coupling portion to the moving-side limiter coupling portion.