Patent ID: 7076859
Filing Date: 2006-07-18
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of limiting movement of a head suspension away from a disk surface, the head suspension used for supporting a head slider over the disk surface in a rigid disk drive, the method comprising the steps of: providing a load beam for use in a head suspension, the load beam having a mounting region, a rigid region and a spring region located between the mounting region and rigid region; forming a shock limiter from the same piece of material as the spring region of the load beam entirely separate from any flexure in the head suspension, by making at least one bend in a cantilevered portion of the material to reconfigure the cantilevered portion to overlap a portion of the flexure of the head suspension; forming the head suspension from the load beam; and mounting the head suspension in a hard disk drive suspending the head slider over the surface of the disk, such that when an impact load causes the head suspension to move away from the surface of the disk, the shock limiter limits such movement.