Patent ID: 7149054

Claim:
A head suspension for a reverse flow disk drive having one or more disks that rotate in a first direction, the head suspension comprising: a load beam having a mounting region at a proximal end, a rigid region at a distal end, and a spring region between the mounting region and the rigid region, the disks including disk features that pass the distal end before passing the proximal end when the disks rotate in the first direction; a flexure mounted on the distal end of the rigid region; a slider mounted on the flexure, the slider having a proximal end closest to the proximal end of the load beam, wherein the spring region, the rigid region, the flexure and the slider comprise an active portion; one or more read/write heads located on the proximal end of the slider; a plurality of electrical traces extending along the load beam to the proximal end of the slider; and at least one airflow attenuator located on the load beam downstream from the active portion and shaped to create a region of reduced airflow velocity proximate at least a portion of the active portion.