Patent ID: 7088554

Claim:
A head suspension for a disk drive for installation with a comb jig having teeth, comprising: a base to be attached to a carriage; a load beam having a rigid pan and a resilient part supported by the base, to apply load on a data read/write head arranged at a front end of the rigid part; a flexure attached to the load beam and provided with the head; and guide faces formed on opposing edges of the rigid part, the guide faces being formed by providing the edges of the rigid part with integral thin parts bent in a thickness direction of the rigid part, the thin parts being thinner than an adjacent portion of the rigid part between the guide faces, said adjacent portion adjacent to the thin parts in an across-the-width direction of the rigid part, the guide faces being positioned to accept contact with the teeth of said comb jig; and said flexure being disposed on said rigid pan between said guide faces so as to not overlap said guide faces for sliding the teeth of the comb jig thereon.