Patent ID: 8120880
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A suspension assembly used with a HDD (hard disk drive), the suspension assembly to elastically bias a slider having a read/write head toward a surface of a disk, and comprising: a load beam coupled to an end of a swing arm of an actuator; a flexure attached to the load beam to support the slider; and a tip-tab which extends from a front end of the load beam to contact a ramp that is installed in the vicinity of the disk when the read/write head is parked, wherein a width of a contact part of the tip-tab that contacts the ramp is wider than other parts of the tip-tab, the contact part of the tip-tab is positioned in the middle part of the tip-tab in a longitudinal direction, and a width of a part engaged with the load beam and a width of a front part of the tip-tab are smaller than the width of the contact part.