Patent ID: 7894164

Claim:
A head stack assembly for use in a hard disk drive, the assembly comprising: a swing arm including a prong at a leading end thereof, the swing arm having an axis of rotation about which the swing arm is to rotate in the hard disk drive, and the swing arm defining a slot in one side of the prong, the slot being open at the side of the prong and elongated in the longitudinal direction of the swing arm; an actuator that rotates the swing arm about its axis of rotation in the hard disk drive; and a head gimbal having an elastically deformable suspension fixed to the prong at said one of the top and bottom surfaces of the prong and projecting therefrom, a head slider supported by the suspension at a leading end of the head gimbal and containing a read/write head such that the head slider protrudes from the prong of the swing arm, and a flexure electronically connected to the read/write head, one part of the flexure being received within the slot defined in the side of the prong of the swing arm without projecting laterally outwardly of the prong, and another part of the flexure that emerges from the slot to the head slider without projecting laterally outwardly of the prong or the suspension.