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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
May. 15, 2012
Yiduo Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tzong-shii Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Yih-jen D. Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
William D. Huber, Hollister, CA (US);
Yiduo Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tzong-Shii Pan, San Jose, CA (US);
Yih-Jen D. Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
William D. Huber, Hollister, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments directed to a head gimbal assembly including a novel suspension assembly that includes a flexure tail with a first plurality of apertures in its structural layer. Each of the first plurality of apertures underlies a first trace but not a second trace. Each of a second plurality of apertures in the structural layer underlies a second trace but not the first trace. Each of the first plurality of apertures includes a corresponding region of maximum width, and each of the second plurality of apertures includes a corresponding region of maximum width, as measured in the width direction. None of the corresponding regions of maximum width of the first plurality of apertures is disposed in an overlapping position along the long axis as any of the corresponding regions of maximum width of the second plurality of apertures.