Patent ID: 8363357

Claim:
A disk drive flexure secured to a load beam of a disk drive suspension and comprising a gimbal portion, the disk drive flexure comprising: a plate-like metal base consisting mainly of an electrically conductive material and formed, in a longitudinal part thereof, with an opening region, which comprises an opening, and a non-opening region without an opening; an insulating layer consisting mainly of an electrically insulating material and formed on the metal base; and a pair of conductors arranged longitudinally relative to the metal base on the insulating layer and electrically connected to a magnetic head, at least one of the conductors comprising a slit extending longitudinally relative to the conductor, band-like portions extending along the slit on the opposite sides thereof, and a junction electrically connecting the band-like portions, the conductor which comprises the slit being located covering both the opening region and the non-opening region of the metal base.