Patent ID: 8339748

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a spindle attached to a disk drive base; a disk mounted on the spindle; a coarse actuator attached to the disk drive base, the coarse actuator including an actuator arm; and a suspension assembly attached to the actuator arm, the suspension assembly including: a mounting plate having a top-side and a bottom-side; a microactuator mounting structure formed in the mounting plate; a microactuator mounted in the microactuator mounting structure to position a read head, the microactuator having a top-side and a bottom-side; a flexure attached to the bottom-side of the of mounting plate, the flexure including a pad layer and a through-hole extending through the pad layer, wherein epoxy on the pad layer bonds widely to the microactuator and extends through the through-hole; and a via, the via to connect a copper (Cu) layer of the flexure to a metal layer of the flexure.