Patent ID: 7649716

Claim:
A head suspension for carrying a head over a disk in a hard disk drive and configured for attachment to a carriage of a spindle, comprising: an arm configured to be attached to the carriage of the hard disk drive and turned around a spindle, said arm including a base plate having a disk side face and an opposite disk side face; a load beam, including a rigid part and a resilient part, configured to apply load onto a head that is arranged at a tip end thereof to write and read data to and from the disk arranged in the hard disk drive; the rigid part having a base end proximate the arm; the resilient part having a first end and a second end, said first end being connected to the rigid part and the second end being a joint portion connected to the base plate of the arm so as to support the rigid part from the arm in a longitudinal direction by a series connection of the resilient part and the rigid part; a flexure having read/write wiring patterns connected to the head, the flexure supporting the head and attached to a disk side face of the rigid part, the flexure extending along the load beam toward the arm and including a rigid part area disposed along and fixed to the disk side face of the rigid part, a resilient part area disposed along the resilient part, and an arm area disposed along the base plate; and overlapping of the base plate by portions of the load beam and the flexure being limited to the resilient part having the joint portion fixed to the opposite disk side face on the base plate of the arm and the flexure having the arm area fixed to the disk side face on the base plate of the arm.