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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2010
Wing C. Shum, San Mateo, CA (US);
Yanning Liu, San Ramon, CA (US);
John E. Scura, Paso Robles, CA (US);
Wing C. Shum, San Mateo, CA (US);
Yanning Liu, San Ramon, CA (US);
John E. Scura, Paso Robles, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a suspension assembly for a disk drive that includes: a mounting plate having a top-side and a bottom-side; a microactuator mounting structure formed in the mounting plate; a microactuator mounted in the microactuator mounting structure in which the microactuator has a top-side and a bottom-side; and a flexure attached to the bottom-side of the of mounting plate and the microactuator. The flexure includes a pad layer and a through-hole, in which the through-hole extends through the pad layer. An epoxy on the pad layer bonds widely to the microactuator and extends through the through-hole.