Patent ID: 7675713

Claim:
A head suspension for supporting a head, for reading and writing, from a carriage of a hard disk drive which turns on a spindle, comprising: a base attached to the carriage of the hard disk drive and turned around the spindle; a load beam including a rigid part, a front end configured to accept the head, and a resilient part, to apply load onto the head at the front end of the load beam to write and read data to and from a disk arranged in the hard disk drive, the load beam including a rigid part having a base end supported on the base through the resilient part; a flexure attached to at least the rigid part of the load beam and extending longitudinally along the load beam in a direction from the base end to the front end and having read/write wiring patterns connected to the head, the flexure having an interconnection protrusion terminating in a free end which is formed by a cut separating the flexure from a chain of flexures connected via the interconnection protrusion, the interconnection protrusion protruding laterally from a longitudinally extending edge of the flexure and the interconnection protrusion being deflectable relative to the rigid part by vibration thereof; and the load beam having a vibration clearance opening formed as one of a recessed portion or a through-hole portion in the load beam and configured and positioned such that vibration contact of the interconnection protrusion of the flexure with the load beam is prevented.