Patent ID: 6233121
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A suspension assembly for supporting a head slider, said head slider having a trailing edge, at a disk surface in a disk drive for preventing excessive pitch motion of said head slider, comprising:a load beam having a load/unload cam follower at a distal end thereof, and having a load gimbal;a flexure mounted on said load beam, and having a free end, said flexure free end adjacent said load gimbal, said flexure having a gimbal surface facing said load gimbal and having a head slider mounting surface opposite said gimbal surface for mounting said head slider; anda pitch limiter for limiting the maximum pitch motion of said flexure free end with respect to said load beam, comprising a pair of tabs on said load beam at opposite sides of, and aligned with, said load gimbal and said tabs projecting along an axis substantially perpendicular to said trailing edge of said head slider, and a pair of frames on said flexure at opposite sides of said load gimbal, at least one of said frames comprising a base frame portion each of said frames aligned with and completely surrounding a corresponding one of said tabs, and said frames and said base portion substantially parallel to said trailing edge of said head slider.