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7386932 Limiter for integral flexible circuit suspension assembly and method of assembling  
A limiter used to limit the motion of a ring gimbal with attached slider relative to a load beam within a head suspension assembly of a disk drive. The ring gimbal includes a flexible substrate...
7380329 Method of assembling a head gimbal assembly  
A method of assembling a head gimbal assembly. The method comprises a series of steps which include: stacking a base plate, a load beam, and a flexure to form a three-layered stacked series with at...
7365945 Magnetic head suspension with a lift tab  
There is provided a magnetic head suspension including: a flexure portion which has a magnetic head mount area for supporting a magnetic head slider; a load bend portion which generates a load for...
7365944 Magnetic head suspension with reduced mass load beam portion  
A magnetic head suspension includes a flexure portion, a load bend portion, a load beam portion, and a base portion. The load beam portion includes: a base end area continuously connected with the...
7359158 Suspension of disc drive  
A suspension for disc drive has a base portion including a base plate, a load beam, a pair of hinge members, a wired flexure, etc. The wired flexure has a metal base and a wiring portion on the...
7356907 Method of manufacturing a carriage assembly of a hard disk drive  
A method of manufacturing a cartridge assembly of a hard disk drive, including a step of forming a part of a wiring circuit into flying leads and a step of forming a coating layer on the respective...
7355817 Head suspension assembly with femto-slider and disk device provided with the same  
A head suspension assembly of a disk device comprises a head having a femto-slider, which is flied by an air current generated between the slider and a surface of the recording medium as the...
RE40203 Magnetic head suspension assembly fabricated with integral load beam and flexure  
A magnetic head suspension assembly is fabricated with an integral piece which includes a load beam section, a flexure section, a rear mount section and a leaf spring section between the load beam...
7349183 Actuator assembly having optimized 4-bar linkage type actuator arm, hard disk drive employing the same, and method for optimizing shape of opening formed in actuator arm  
An actuator arm of an actuator assembly includes a 4-bar linkage structure defined by a trapezoidal shaped opening formed between a front end of the actuator arm and a pivot shaft. A first rounded...
7322094 Method for manufacturing a head stack assembly  
A head stack assembly of a disk drive unit including a head arm assembly (HAA) having a head gimbal assembly, a drive arm to be connected with the head gimbal assembly; wherein the drive arm...
7312953 Head suspension assembly and disk drive using the same  
A head suspension assembly includes a head, a load beam carrying the head at one end, a resilient member joining the load beam and a carriage, and a pivot bearing provided between the load beam and...
7301729 Suspension, head gimbal assembly with multilayered plate suspension having ribs and disk drive apparatus with head gimbal assembly  
A suspension includes a multilayered plate member formed by at least three layers laminated together. The modulus of elasticity of neighboring layers of the at least three layers are different from...
7293348 Method of forming a suspension for use in a disk drive having a media disk  
A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material...
7283330 Method of manufacturing a suspension using coining  
A method of manufacturing a suspension member designed to carry a slider and read/write head elements in a magnetic data storage device. The method includes forming the suspension member into a...
7265945 Head drive device including head support mechanism having support arm rotatable relative to base arm via rotation support part, and disk apparatus including the head drive device  
A head support mechanism of the invention comprises a head ( 1011 ) for recording on a disk or reproducing a disk, a head support member composed of this head ( 1011 ) and a support arm ( 2 )...
7265944 Load beam spring portion with enhanced resistance to plastic deformation in manufacturing processes  
A load beam for a disk drive suspension in which the radius of the perimeter transition between the load beam portion and the load beam spring portion is increased to ensure the stress encountered...
7245457 Magnetic disk drive using femto slider and having predetermined linear velocity and gram load configuration  
A magnetic disk drive includes a magnetic disk and a femto slider. The magnetic disk has a minimum track linear velocity of 1 to 5 m/s. In one embodiment, the magnetic disk drive includes a...
7245456 Head support device and disk drive using the same  
A head support device includes a slider with a head, a support arm having a leading end provided with the slider 1 via a flexure and being integral with, in the vicinity of its base end, a spring...
7230798 Head support device and disk drive using the same  
A low profile head support device has excellent shock resistance and can apply necessary and sufficient biasing forces to a head and a disk drive using the same. The head support device includes a...
7218481 Apparatus for insulating and electrically connecting piezoelectric motor in dual stage actuator suspension  
Apparatus and method for selectively applying a voltage to one major surface of a pair of piezoelectric motors (PZTs) on a disk drive head suspension with a primary plane of a load beam of the head...
7209325 Suspension damping method with minimum impact on preload stiffness  
The present invention relates to a suspension assembly that includes a load beam having a bend section with a bending stiffness and an in-plane stiffness. The assembly also includes a constraint or...
7194795 Method for manufacturing a head suspension  
A head suspension or head suspension component for supporting a head slider over a rigid disk in a dynamic storage device and a method of manufacturing. The head suspension includes a head...
7193820 Head actuator having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers  
An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external...
7191512 Tray system for holding and positioning components  
The present invention provides a tray for holding components having first and second sides, wherein the first side has at least one first component receptacle for engaging said component; and the...
7170717 Head suspension assembly and disk drive using the same  
A head suspension assembly includes (a) a slider having a head for recording into/reproducing from a record medium, mounted thereon, (b) a load beam having (i) the slider disposed via a flexure at...
RE39478 Magnetic head suspension assembly fabricated with integral load beam and flexure  
A magnetic head suspension assembly is fabricated with an integral piece which includes a load beam section, a flexure section, a rest mount section and a leaf spring section between the load beam...
7152303 Method of localized thermal processing of integrated lead suspensions for controlling the pitch static attitude of sliders  
A method is provided for controlling the pitch static attitude of a slider in an integrated lead suspension head gimbal assembly. The integrated lead suspension includes a load beam, a mount plate,...
7142394 Method and apparatus for an improved magnetic head arm assembly  
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA), reducing complexity of design and difficulty of manufacture, is disclosed.
7124496 Method of manufacturing head suspension for disk drive  
A head suspension for a disk drive has a base plate ( 19 ) to be attached to a carriage of the disk drive and a load beam ( 21 ) consisting of a rigid part ( 27 ) and a resilient part ( 29 ), to...
7113371 Suspension design for attenuation of disk flutter induced track mis-registration of a hard disk drive by manipulation of the hinge and/or load beam  
Disk drives including suspensions and head gimbal assemblies in which the load beam pitch angle is reduced exhibit a reduced disk flutter induced track mis-registration (TMR) at the disk outer...
7079356 Head arm assembly and disk drive apparatus with the head arm assembly  
An HAA includes a head slider having at least one head element, a high-stiffness arm member for supporting the head slider at one end section, an actuator, mounted to the other end section of the...
7075753 Clean suspension assembly  
A clean suspension assembly for capturing particles carried by airflow along the suspension assembly includes an opening formed in the suspension assembly, and a particle capture device attached to...
7065858 Method for welding components of a disk drive head suspension  
A method of affixing head suspension components to one another using an edge weld formed at the edge of one head suspension assembly component positioned in an overlapping fashion relative to...
7054109 Balanced and damped suspension for use in a disk drive  
A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material...
7051423 Testing method for a head IC  
This invention relates to a testing method for a head IC which makes it possible to simplify checking of the head. The head IC is installed on a head suspension, and probes are placed on terminals...
7046484 Magnetic head supporting device having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers  
An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external...
7040004 Method of making a data storage device having an actuator with a rail  
Longitudinal edges of an actuator arm are provided with stiffening elements in order to raise natural resonant frequencies of the arm so as to prevent resonance from occurring. The stiffening...
7031103 Hard disk drive having disk locking apparatus utilizing offset dummy slider/suspension arrangement  
A hard disk drive having a disk storing data, a spindle motor rotating the disk, an actuator having two arms disposed at both sides of the disk, and a disk locking apparatus locking the disk not to...
7027266 Head suspension with flexure-supported slider between first and second load bending portions  
The present invention provides an improved suspension and head assembly. One exemplary suspension comprises an arm configured to be held by a positioning mechanism. A first load beam is coupled to...
7020949 Method of fabricating head supporting member  
A fabricating method effective in affixing FPC with high accuracy, simplifying a supporting mechanism of a head supporting member, avoiding mechanical damage to a load beam or a flexible member and...
6993824 Method of controlling pitch static attitude of sliders on integrated lead suspensions by improved plastic deformation processing  
A method is provided for controlling the pitch static attitude of a slider in an integrated lead suspension head gimbal assembly. The integrated lead suspension includes a load beam, a mount plate,...
6989968 Magnetic head suspension with a load beam structure  
A proximal end region of a load beam is provided with a proximal-end widthwise beam extending in the width direction and a pair of proximal-end lengthwise beams respectively extending from the...
6980392 System and method for capturing contaminants within a disk drive  
Under the present invention, a contaminant capturing material is positioned within a disk drive. Specifically, the contaminant capturing material is positioned on a suspension, adjacent a slider...
6970327 Data storage device with damped load arm formed from Mn-Cu alloy composition  
A data access assembly with a load arm formed from an Mn—Cu alloy is disclosed. The load arm may be supported by and actuator arm formed from a common Mn—Cu damping alloy, which has a...
6967820 Head suspension for disk drive  
A head suspension for a disk drive has a flexure extended from a load beam toward a plate. The flexure is structured to prevent fluttering. The head suspension has the plate attached to a carriage...
6944936 Method for manufacturing an integrated lead suspension  
A method for manufacturing an integrated lead suspension or component having an integrated circuit (IC) with an array of terminals. The suspension or component is formed from a laminated sheet of...
6940695 Head suspension for disk drive, and semi-finished suspension  
A semi-finished suspension ( 55 ) is used for manufacturing a head suspension ( 11 ) for a disk drive. The semi-finished suspension includes a base plate ( 37 ), a rigid part ( 27 ) solidly joined...
6938326 Method of making at least one suspension load beam for an actuator assembly of a disk drive  
A suspension load beam for an actuator assembly of a disk drive includes a bend radius portion with a spring rate that is less than 18 Newtons per meter, a first bending mode that is greater than...
6920017 Disc drive suspension having an offset portion for mounting an end of a flexure  
A suspension comprises a base plate, a load beam, and a hinge member. An extending portion is provided on the side of the hinge member. A step forming portion is formed between the base plate...
6833977 Load beam with enhanced resistance to plastic deformation in manufacturing processes  
A unitary load beam for a disk drive suspension in which the radius of the perimeter transition between the load beam portion and the load beam spring portion is increased to ensure the stress...
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