Patent ID: 7832083

Claim:
A shipping comb usable with a head stack assembly (HSA) having sliders recording data onto or reading data from disks, suspensions having the sliders thereon, and end-taps at front ends of the suspensions, wherein the end-taps are closer to the sliders than are middle portions of the suspensions, the shipping comb comprising: a body unit having protruding suspension spacers which are each inserted between the middle portions of a pair of suspensions having a pair of sliders facing each other to prevent a collision of the middle portions of the pair of suspensions; and a head unit having protruding end-tap spacers inserted between the end-taps of the pair of the suspensions to prevent a collision of the front ends of the pair of suspensions, and connected to a front end of the body unit with a hinge, wherein the head unit rotates around the hinge to a predetermined angle with respect to the body unit so that the head unit reaches a first position where the end-tap spacers are inserted between the end-taps or a second position where the end-tap spacers are not inserted between the end-taps.