Patent ID: 7417830

Claim:
A disk drive suspension comprising: a load beam; a mount plate in operative association with the load beam; a microactuator arranged to locally shift the mount plate, the load beam being shifted thereby in corresponding relation; wherein the mount plate defines a size variable, microactuator opposing gap, the microactuator being fixed to the mount plate in gap size varying relation to locally shift the mount plate in load beam shifting relation; wherein the mount plate has an interior and a perimeter, the gap having an interior extent within the mount plate interior and an exterior extent extending through the perimeter; wherein the mount plate has a first portion attachable to an actuator and a second portion attached to the load beam, the first and second portions defining the gap therebetween, the second portion being shiftable by the microactuator relative to the first portion; wherein the gap is shaped and sized to define a hinge region at which the second portion is hinged to the first portion for shifting by the microactuator, the microactuator being generally congruent with the gap; wherein the gap exterior extent is opposed to the hinge region.