Patent ID: 7450347
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A suspension having deformable gimbals which hold a head configured to access a recording area on a rotating recording disk and a load beam which supports said gimbals, said load beam comprising: a tab projecting from a front end of said load beam and being integrally formed centrally in a longitudinal direction of the front end of the load beam, said tab being bent in a transverse section thereof; flanges formed by bending both longitudinally extending edge portions of said load beam; a first aperture formed in a position overlapping an end on a tab side of a head-disposed position of the head on the load beam toward the tab; a second aperture formed on a tab side of said first aperture; a bridge portion which separates said first and second apertures from each other, and wherein said tab extends from said second aperture, which has bent portions bending longitudinally in the same direction as said flanges.