Patent ID: 7558023

Claim:
A head support unit comprising: a head used to record information in a recording medium or reproduce the information from the recording medium; a suspension that supports said head; an arm connected to the suspension and configured to rotate the suspension around a shaft; and a lift tab that is connected to said suspension, and slides on a sliding surface of a ramp loading unit which holds the head outside the recording medium in loading the head onto the recording medium and in unloading the head from the recording medium, the lift tab extending in a radial direction of a circle having a center at a center of the shaft when the lift tab is projected onto a plane perpendicular to the shaft, wherein said lift tab inclines from a connection part with said suspension relative to a surface of the recording medium, and a contact position between said lift tab and the sliding surface moves on the lift tab along a longitudinal direction of the lift tab as the arm rotates said suspension.