Patent ID: 6898059

Claim:
A head suspension for a disk drive, comprising: a plate attached to a carriage and turned around a spindle; a load beam having a rigid part and a resilient part and supported by the plate, to apply load on a slider arranged at a front end of the load beam; and a flexure having a head to write and read data to and from a hard disk and a conductive path to transmit write and read signals to and from the head, the flexure being attached to the load beam and extending toward the plate, the resilient part of the load beam being made of a resilient material that is independent of the rigid part, a first side of the resilient material being laid on an end of the rigid part and joined thereto, a second side of the resilient material being joined to the plate, the first side of the resilient material being provided with a first cut to partly expose the end of the rigid part, and the flexure with the conductive path being extended through the first cut toward the plate.