Patent ID: 7065858

Claim:
A method for welding together at least two components of a disk drive head suspension, the method comprising the steps of: a) positioning a first component of the disk drive head suspension, having an edge surface, a first major surface and a second major surface that opposes the first major surface and is spaced apart from the first major surface by the edge surface, with respect to a second component of the disk drive head suspension having a surface with a perimeter, such that the surface of the second component is in overlapping contact with at least a portion of the first major surface of the first component, and at least a portion of the perimeter of the surface of the second component extends beyond the edge surface of the first component; and b) forming an edge weld at the edge surface, such that the edge weld extends beyond the edge surface into the second major surface of the first component and into the surface of the second component.