Patent ID: 6493189
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A head gimbal assembly used for a disk apparatus having a disk, comprising:a plurality of heads/sliders each consisting of a slider that flies above a surface of said disk and a head for reading/writing data from/onto the surface of said disk in a non-contact manner; a plurality of conductive wires, each being connected to one of said heads for transmitting data; a load beam provided with said wires thereon and used for holding said heads/sliders close to a front end and supported by an actuator at a rear end; wherein each of said wires are fixed at a fixing point between said head connecting point edge and said rear end on a surface of said load beam to form a wire loop between said head connecting point end and said wire fixing point, and said distance between head connecting point and said wire fixing point is about 2.7 to 3.8 mm; and wherein said wire loop is formed by: compressing a predetermined portion of said wire loop from above on the surface of said load beam; and extruding said compressed predetermined portion toward said head connecting point edge, thereby a section between said head connecting point edge and said predetermined portion is deformed plastically.