Patent ID: 9576600
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G11B

Claim:
1. A flexure of a disk drive suspension with a magnetic head mounted therein, the flexure comprising a metal base, a conductive circuit portion formed along the metal base, and a tail pad portion formed in a flexure tail at an end of the flexure, and the tail pad portion comprising: a frame structure including a first frame and a second frame which are a part of the metal base and extend in a longitudinal direction of the tail pad portion, and in which an opening is formed between the first frame and the second frame, a distal end of the first frame and a distal end of the second frame being separated from each other; a tail terminal group comprising a plurality of tail terminals arranged in the tail pad portion, the tail terminals being arranged to be spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the tail pad portion, each of the tail terminals traversing the opening of the frame structure; and a bridge portion including at least one conductive bridge member which electrically connects the first frame and the second frame to each other, the at least one bridge member being arranged between the tail terminals which are adjacent to each other between the first frame and the second frame, wherein the at least one bridge member is made of a metal which is the same material as the tail terminals.