Patent ID: 7643252

Claim:
A head suspension comprising: a load beam configured to apply load to a slider that writes and reads data to and from a hard disk; a flexure made of a conductive thin plate attached to the load beam and configured to support the slider; an insulating base layer formed of a flexible resin disposed on the flexure write wires and read wires having first ends connected to the slider and second ends disposed distal to the slider and at the load beam, said write wires and said read wires being disposed on the insulating base layer along a length from the first ends to the second ends; the insulating base layer defining a hole adjacent to said read wires and exposing a flexure surface of the flexure; and a conductive coating, made of conductive flexible resin, formed over the read wires at a position between the first ends and the second ends and extended to pass through the hole in the insulating base layer and contact the flexure surface of the flexure exposed by the hole, said conductive coating being composed so as to effect discharge of static electricity to the flexure, and said conductive coating being not disposed over the write wires between the first and second ends.