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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016

Filed:

May. 29, 2015
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masaya Kudo, Yokohama, JP;

Yasutaka Sasaki, Yokohama, JP;

Takuma Kido, Mitaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/21 (2006.01); G11B 5/55 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/5552 (2013.01); G11B 5/4833 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member including a thin metallic plate, an insulating layer and a conductive layer, the wiring member including a tongue portion located on a convex portion of the support plate, a proximal end portion fixed onto the support plate, and a bridge portion bridged between the tongue portion and the proximal end portion and including a inflection point with respect to a height direction of warping, a magnetic head attached to the tongue portion, and a piezoelectric element bonded to the bridge portion at a section between the proximal end portion and the inflection point.


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