Patent ID: 7957101
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A suspension, comprising: a flexure, including: two branched outrigger parts extending to a tip side of the flexure; and a tongue part for mounting a magnetic head slider, located between the outrigger parts and linked to tip sides of the outrigger parts; a trace formed on the flexure; a fixed part in which a first part of a bent part formed in the trace is fixed to the tongue part to define the fixed part and a second part of the bent part formed in the trace is fixed to the outrigger part; the fixed part is not located on a linking part between the outrigger part and the tongue part, but located at a position wherein a distance from the linking part between the outrigger part and the tongue part to the fixed part is defined as d wherein the second part of the bent part is fixed to the outrigger part at a distance from the linking part that is approximately the same as the distance from the linking part to the fixed part; and the trace is separated from the tongue part at a position between the fixed part and a terminal of the trace formed at a back end side of the tongue part, wherein the back end side of the tongue part is provided at an end of the tongue part that is opposite the linking part.