Patent ID: 6055132
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An integrated lead suspension flexure attachment structure for a micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto, having a plurality of electrical terminals, said integrated lead suspension flexure attachment structure comprising:an attachment platform for attaching said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto;two elongate cantilever compliance members extending from opposite edges of said attachment platform, each having a cantilever end at said attachment platform and having a distal end;two lead termination platforms, one at each distal end of said cantilever compliance members; anda plurality of electrical leads, ones of said leads separately supported by each of said two lead termination platforms for electrically connecting to ones of said plurality of electrical terminals at opposite ends of said micro-actuator with a slider/transducer assembly attached thereto.