Patent ID: 6940694

Claim:
A magnetic head assembly comprising a slider having a magnetic head for reading data from, and writing data onto, a magnetic recording medium, and a gimbal spring on which said slider is mounted with an adhesive agent, wherein: said gimbal spring is formed integrally with a load beam, and is supported by said load beam via beam portions; a thin-film wiring pattern formed on said load beam is extended to a surface of said gimbal spring via said beam portions and is formed on said surface, the tip of said wiring pattern serves as a terminal portion corresponding to the position of input/output terminals of the magnetic head that is integrally formed on the tip of said slider, the input/output terminals of said slider and the terminal portion of said wiring pattern are connected together by electrically conducting bonding, and said slider is locked on said gimbal spring at two points by the electrically conducting bonding and by said adhesive agent; and a plurality of thin-film dummy patterns having the same height as the height of said wiring pattern are provided at a position where said adhesive agent will be dropped on said surface of said gimbal spring, and said adhesive agent is dropped in the area sandwiched by said thin-film dummy patterns on said gimbal spring.