Patent ID: 7751152
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A head suspension for a hard disk drive, comprising: an arm to be attached to a carriage of the hard disk drive and turned around a spindle; a load beam including a rigid part and a resilient part, to apply load onto a head that is arranged at a front end of the load beam to write and read data to and from a disk arranged in the hard disk drive, a base end of the rigid part being connected to the resilient part that is supported with the arm; a flexure having read/write wiring patterns connected to the head, the flexure supporting the head and attached to a surface of the rigid part that is oriented toward the disk; and a reinforcing rail formed along each side edge of the rigid part by box-bending the side edge toward the disk, the flexure and the resilient part that are integral with or independent of each other being fixed to a surface of the arm that is oriented opposite to the disk, wherein: