Patent ID: 7548399

Claim:
A HSA (head stack assembly) protecting member to be installed in a HSA which includes a slider recording data on a disk or reading the data recorded in the disk, and a suspension having the slider mounted at its front end, to prevent the HSA from being damaged, the HSA protecting member comprising: a first spacer interposed between front ends of a pair of suspensions on which a pair of sliders facing each other are mounted, respectively, to prevent both front ends of the suspensions from contacting each other; a pair of limiters formed above and below the first spacer with suspension receiving portions between the first spacer and the pair of limiters such that the front ends of the pair of suspensions can be inserted into the suspension receiving portions, respectively, to restrain the front ends of the suspensions from shaking up and down; and an installation pin formed opposite the first spacer and the limiters and inserted into in the HSA.