Patent ID: 8488281

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a disk drive base; a disk rotably mounted to the disk drive base; a coarse actuator pivotably mounted to the disk drive base; and a head gimbal assembly attached to the actuator, the head gimbal assembly comprising: a head comprising: a slider that includes a trailing face; a magnetic sensor that is disposed on the trailing face; and a plurality of head bond pads that are disposed on the trailing face and that are electrically conductive; a suspension assembly comprising: a load beam; and a laminated flexure, the laminated flexure including a structural layer, a dielectric layer, and an electrically conductive layer, the electrically conductive layer including a plurality of flexure bond pads, the structural layer including a tongue and a flexure bond pad shelf, the flexure bond pad shelf being separate from the tongue in the structural layer so that the structural layer nowhere connects the flexure bond pad shelf to the tongue, the flexure bond pad shelf underlying each of the plurality of flexure bond pads; and a fine actuator to produce relative motion between the head and the tongue, the fine actuator being disposed on and bonded to the tongue, the head being attached to the fine actuator; wherein the plurality of flexure bond pads are bonded to and electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of head bond pads; wherein the laminated flexure is configured to facilitate relative motion between the trailing face of the head and the tongue; and wherein the dielectric layer comprises a bridge having a pre-defined incline portion.