Patent ID: 9230581
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G11B,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of positioning a head attaching part defined at a front end side of a flexure for attaching a read/write head with respect to a supporting part of a load beam when the flexure and the load beam are laid on and joined to each other on an outside frame to which the front end side of the flexure is joined, the method comprising steps of: positioning the flexure with respect to the load beam and keeping the positioned state of the flexure and load beam; plastically deforming the outside frame to bend the front end side of the flexure so that the position of the head attaching part of the flexure is adjusted to the position of the supporting part of the load beam; and joining the position-adjusted flexure and load beam to each other to keep the position-adjusted state of the head attaching part; and wherein the plastically deforming step is carried out by irradiating areas defined on the outside frame with laser beams.