Patent ID: 8125736

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a load beam, the load beam being configured to be pivotally supported in a read/write device and having a dimple, the dimple having an inner concave curved surface and an outer convex curved surface to position and support a slider, the slider receiving load applied by the load beam and being configured to write/read data to and from a disk arranged in the read/write device, the method comprising: preparing a work which is a flat plate and serves as the load beam and irradiating at least a part of the work where the dimple is formed with a laser beam, thereby forming a modified part at the irradiated part; and carrying out plastic working on the modified part, after said irradiating, thereby forming the dimple having the concave curved surface at the modified part and finishing the modified part, which has been modified by said irradiating and said carrying out plastic working, to form the convex curved surface of the dimple having a bottom from the finished modified part.