Patent ID: 6940696

Claim:
A head suspension for a disk drive having a contact face to receive a jig, comprising: a plate to be attached to a carriage of the disk drive by inserting a boss of the plate into a hole of the carriage and by plastically deforming the inserted boss; and a load beam having a rigid part and a resilient part and supported by the plate, to apply load on a slider arranged at a front end of the load beam, the boss being formed separately from the plate and having a base fixed to the plate and a protrusion to be inserted into the hole of the carriage, the plate having a through hole to receive the boss, the boss being arranged in the through hole of the plate with the base of the boss fixed to the plate, the protrusion of the boss protruding from a first face of the plate, the base of the boss protruding from a second face of the plate, an end face of the base of the boss serving as a contact face to receive a jig, and the first face and the second face being parallel to each other.