Patent ID: 6327118
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam having a rigid portion and a flexure supported by said rigid portion, said flexure having a frame, a tongue cantilevered from said frame and generally spaced at a gap from said frame, and a tongue tip, said tip being movable relative to said frame, said tongue tip having a limiter comprising a continued tongue tip extent projecting out of the plane of said tongue tip and shaped to oppose said frame in frame contacting relation after a predetermined travel of said tongue, said limiter and said frame defining cooperating tab and slot structure arranged so that said limiter intersects with the surface of said frame in the contacted condition of said limiter with said frame, said flexure tongue tip continued extent defining a U-shape open to the plane of said flexure, one leg of said U-shape being attached to said tongue tip, the other leg of said U-shape being parallel to said one leg and defining said tab, said other leg being sufficiently long to intersect with a slot formed in said frame upon said predetermined travel of said tongue.