Patent ID: 8225485
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of manufacturing a head suspension, comprising: punching, by use of a hollow punch having an edge at a front end thereof, a damper out from a damper material having the damper provided detachably on a liner through an attaching surface without punching out the liner, to hold the damper by an inner face of the hollow punch that has a holding force larger than an adhesive force of an adhesive face of the liner, the punched out damper having a one-stroke shape; moving the hollow punch holding the damper away from the liner to detach the damper from the liner; positioning the punch with the damper held therein relative to an objective part defined on a surface of the head suspension; and pushing the damper with a pusher out of the punch to the objective part, so that the adhesive face of the damper is affixed to the objective part, wherein: the objective part includes a discontinuous section that is present on the surface of the head suspension and has a closed planar shape; punching the damper material cuts out the damper so that a shape of the damper corresponds to the shape of the objective part excluding the discontinuous section; and positioning the punch positions the punch relative to the objective part so that the damper surrounds the discontinuous section and pushing the damper affixes the damper to the objective part so that the damper surrounds the discontinuous section.