Patent ID: 8085505

Claim:
A magnetic head suspension comprising a load bending portion generating a load for pressing a magnetic head slider toward a disk surface, a load beam portion transmitting the load to the magnetic head slider, a supporting portion supporting the load beam portion through the load bending portion, and a flexure portion connected to the load beam portion and supporting the magnetic head slider, wherein (a) the supporting portion includes a main-body portion, and a pair of supporting pieces extending from opposite sides of the main-body portion in a suspension widthwise direction toward a tip-end side in a suspension lengthwise direction so as to define a concave portion therebetween which is opened toward the tip-end side in the suspension lengthwise direction, the supporting pieces being symmetric to each other with a longitudinal center line of the suspension as a reference, (b) the magnetic head suspension further comprises an elastically-deformable elastic plate including first and second connected areas which are respectively connected to the pair of supporting pieces and a center area which extends between the first and second connected areas and to which a member forming the load beam portion is connected, the elastic plate functioning as the load bending portion by elastically deformed around a load bending center line along the suspension widthwise direction, (c) the magnetic head suspension further comprises a balance mass member supported by a portion of the member forming the load beam portion which is positioned on a base-end side from the elastic plate in the suspension lengthwise direction so as to be positioned within the concave portion in a plan view or as viewed from above, (d) the pair of supporting pieces includes supporting areas to which the elastic plate is connected at the first and second connected areas, and arm areas which are positioned on the base-end side in the suspension lengthwise direction from the supporting areas, the arm areas having a width which becomes wider as it advances from the tip-end side to the base-end side in a state that both of its inner side edge and outer side edge come close to the longitudinal center line as they advance from the tip-end side to the base-end side, (e) the supporting portion has such a shape that its width becomes narrower according to the shape of the outer side edges of the arm areas as it advances from the tip-end side to the base-end side, becomes narrowest at a narrowest portion and then becomes wider as it advances from the tip-end side to the base-end side after passing the narrowest portion, and (f) the narrowest portion is positioned, with respect to the suspension lengthwise direction, between a position of a base-end of the concave portion and a position where phantom lines extending from the inner side edges of the arm areas intersect with the longitudinal center line.