Patent ID: 8000061

Claim:
A gimbal mounted slider assembly comprising: a gimbal including a ramp limiter extending distally therefrom and formed as two arms having substantially parallel and separated inner edges; two separated, parallel transverse bars formed between and connecting said inner edges of said arms, a first of said bars being positioned approximately midway longitudinally along said arms and a second of said bars formed proximally to said first of said bars and being positioned adjacent to but not in contact with a distal edge of a slider mounting pad, whereby spaces are formed both between said first and said second of said bars and between said distal edge of said slider mounting pad and said second of said bars; a slider mounted on said mounting pad, said slider including solder ball connections formed on a distal surface thereof and said slider pad extending proximally between a pair of separated outrigger elements that form the lateral periphery of said gimbal; a pair of conducting traces connected to said solder ball connections, each of said pair of conducting traces thence being routed transversely outward from said connections and positioned between said connecting transverse bars and each of said traces not contacting or overlapping with said first bar and minimally overlapping with said second bar and each of said traces having a maximal transverse length to reach an outer edge of an outrigger and each of said traces thence being routed in a proximal direction along a space between a lateral edge of said mounting pad and an inner edge of an adjacent outrigger; and a pair of trace support tabs, each of said tabs extending transversely inward from each of said outrigger elements, whereby each of said conducting traces contacts one of said tabs.