Patent ID: 7558026

Claim:
A slider cradle for lateral positioning of a slider near a rotating disk surface in a hard disk drive, consisting essentially of: a piezoelectric micro-actuator coupling a slider cradle blank, further comprising: said piezoelectric micro-actuator coupling to a first slider mount arm near a slider mount and near a slider mount base; wherein said piezoelectric micro-actuator, includes: a first piezoelectric contact and a second piezoelectric contact; wherein said slider cradle blank, includes: said first slider mount arm coupling to said slider mount base and coupling to said slider mount; and said second slider mount arm coupling to said slider mount base and coupling to said slider mount; wherein said hard disk drive requires said piezoelectric micro-actuator to have a stroke sensitivity, for said lateral positioning of said slider, of at most 80 nanometers for following a track on said rotating disk surface.