Patent ID: 7545607

Claim:
A carriage comprising: a slider on which a magnetic head for reading/writing information from/to a disk is mounted; a suspension for carrying the slider and for applying a predetermined load to the slider; a carriage arm to which the suspension is attached; and a body section to which the carriage arm is connected; wherein the carriage arm includes a suspension fixing portion, first and second arms having a surface arranged so as to extend substantially in parallel with a disk surface, and a restricting member which is a thin-plate-like member having a surface which faces the surface of the first and second arms, the surface of the restricting member extending substantially in parallel to the disk surface, and wherein a viscoelastic member is provided on the surface of the restricting member which faces the surface of the first and second arms and which extends substantially in parallel to the disk surface, the restricting member being coupled with the surface of the first and second arms via the viscoelastic member.