Patent ID: 7497006

Claim:
A method for mounting a head slider of the type having terminal pads to a wireless disk drive head suspension flexure, comprising: providing a wireless flexure having a slider mounting region, lead contact pads and a deflectable and resilient slider engagement member spaced from the lead contact pads, wherein the slider engagement member includes a tooling engagement member and is relatively rigid with respect to the lead contact pads, and wherein the lead contact pads are deflectable with respect to the slider engagement member; engaging and deflecting the slider engagement member and positioning the head slider onto the slider mounting region and between the lead contact pads and the slider engagement member while the slider engagement member is deflected including: engaging tooling with the tooling engagement member and actuating the tooling to deflect the slider engagement member; and positioning the head slider onto the slider mounting region while the slider engagement member is deflected; and disengaging the slider engagement member and causing the slider engagement member to force the head slider into frictional engagement with the lead contact pads and the slider engagement member with the lead contact pads in mechanical and electrical contact with the head slider terminal pads, wherein disengaging the slider engagement member includes releasing the tooling from the tooling engagement member, and wherein forcing the head slider into frictional engagement with the lead contact pads includes deflecting the lead contact pads.