Patent ID: 7079356

Claim:
A head arm assembly comprising: a head slider having at least one head element; a high-stiffness arm member generating no load; a flexure with one end section fixed to one end section of said arm member, said flexure being fixed to said head slider and having a resilience for determining flying attitude of said head slider, a top end of said flexure being positioned back from a top end of said arm member; an actuator, mounted to the other end section of said arm member, for rotationally moving said arm member in a direction substantially parallel with a recording medium surface around a horizontal rotation axis of said arm member; and a resilient plate spring for generating a load, said plate spring having one end section fixed to said arm member and the other end section provided with a load point that is not fixed to but abutted to said flexure for energizing said head slider in a direction to the recording medium surface, a top end of said plate spring being positioned back from the top end of said flexure.