Patent ID: 8194352

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a head suspension for use with a carriage and disk drive, wherein a base plate is manufactured, the base plate having a front end and a rear end, the manufactured head suspension including the manufactured base plate, a load beam whose base end is attached to the front end of the base plate, a flexure attached to a front end of the load beam, and a slider resiliently supported by the flexure so that the slider receives load from the load beam and floats above a disk-like recording medium when the recording medium is rotated in the disk drive in which the carriage and head suspension are installed, the manufactured base plate being attached to the carriage, the method comprising: clamping the rear end of the base plate; and twisting the front end of the base plate by applying a load onto the front end so that the front end of the manufactured base plate inclines toward one of inner and outer circumferences of the disk-like recording medium.