Patent ID: 8116039

Claim:
A disk drive suspension, comprising: a load beam; a flexure which is superposed on the load beam and includes a tongue portion on which a slider is mounted; a pair of bent edge portions formed by bending regions which extend along opposite side edges of the load beam in a thickness direction of the load beam; a dimple which supports the tongue portion for swinging motion; and a limiter which suppresses a movement of the tongue portion, wherein the limiter includes an arm portion and a retainer portion which is formed on a distal end of the arm portion and is opposed to a supported portion on each of opposite sides of the tongue portion, whereby the tongue portion is restrained from moving away from the dimple, and the arm portion and the retainer portion of the limiter are formed by bending a part of the region along each said opposite side edge of the load beam, on which each said bent edge portion is provided, in a direction opposite to that of the bent edge portion, and wherein the bent edge portion of the load beam is formed with an aperture for defining a contour of the limiter, the aperture being surrounded by a bridge portion which is formed by extending a part of the bent edge portion along the length of the load beam.