Patent ID: 9082437
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A head suspension for supporting a slider, comprising: a base plate, a load beam and a load bend connecting the base plate and the load beam, thereby to apply a load onto a slider through the load beam; an objective part defined on a surface of the load beam of the head suspension; and a damper punched out from a damper material that has an adhesive face covered with a removable liner, the damper positioned relative to the objective part and affixed to the objective part with the adhesive face; wherein the objective part on the load beam includes a discontinuous section that is present on the surface of the load beam of the head suspension and has a closed planar shape; wherein the damper has an exposed top face opposite to the adhesive face and is affixed to the objective part with the adhesive face, wherein the damper is a band having an annular planar shape with a cutout corresponding to the discontinuous section in the objective part, the annular planar shape of the damper that corresponds to the shape of the objective part excluding the discontinuous section so that an inner periphery and an outer periphery of the damper are annular to follow an edge of the discontinuous section having a closed annular planar shape and to encircle the discontinuous section, whereby the damper encircles the discontinuous section; wherein the damper is divided into plural damper segments in a direction along which the damper encircles the discontinuous section; and wherein the plural damper segments include at least a first damper segment and a second damper segment that are made of different materials, the first and second damper segments being used in combination with each other and being affixed to the objective part together to encircle the discontinuous section.