Patent ID: 7414814

Claim:
A suspension assembly for attachment to an actuator arm of a head stack assembly in a disk drive and for supporting a head, the suspension assembly comprising: a first end that includes a plurality of bond pads configured for electrical connection to the head; a second end that defines a tail configured for attachment to a flexible cable attached to the actuator arm assembly, the tail including: a support layer having a free end that defines a plurality of cutouts to form a plurality of peninsula-shaped regions, such that a plane oriented perpendicularly relative to the support layer and disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of peninsula-shaped regions and extending beyond the free end of the tail does not cut through the support layer; a layer of insulating material disposed on the support layer; a plurality of connection pads, each being disposed on the layer of insulating material within a corresponding one of the plurality of peninsula-shaped regions; a plurality of conductive traces disposed on the layer of insulating material to electrically connect each of the plurality of connection pads to a corresponding one of the plurality of bond pads at the first end of the flexure.