Patent ID: 8917482

Claim:
A hard-disk drive, comprising: a head attached to a slider; a disk rotatably mounted on a spindle; a drive motor having a motor shaft attached to the spindle for rotating the disk; a voice-coil motor configured to move the head to access portions of the disk; and a flexure attached to the slider comprising a head gimbal assembly (HGA), wherein the flexure is attached to a suspension assembly with flexure legs, the flexure legs being separated from the flexure and formed in a curved fashion such that the mass of the HGA is redistributed along a vertical axis, wherein the location of an upward bend of the flexure legs and the distribution of mass along the flexure legs results in a minima of offtrack motion for the slider in both (a) flexure first mode (FX 1 ) and (b) flexure second mode (FX 2 ) during operation of the hard-disk drive.