Patent ID: 7688549

Claim:
A head suspension for a hard disk drive, comprising: a base including a base plate attached to a carriage of the hard disk drive and turned around a spindle of the carriage, the base plate including a spindle aperture for accepting the spindle; a load beam having a rigid pan, a resilient part, and a joint part forming a seamlessly, integrated body with the resilient part, the joint part having a first joint part surface laid in contact with and fixed to a base plate surface of the base plate, a second joint part surface opposing said first joint part surface; the base plate having a base plate edge facing the rigid part and the joint part extending from the base plate edge to a position on said base plate encompassing at least a portion of the spindle aperture of the base plate to form the base together with the base plate; the load beam having a front end distal the base plate and a rear end proximate the base plate, the resilient part being connected to the rear end of the base plate; a head for writing and reading data to and from a disk arranged in the hard disk drive, the head being arranged at the front end of the load beam and receiving a load from the load beam; a flexure having read/write wires connected to the head and supporting the head on a first flexure side of the flexure oriented in and defining a disk facing direction, the flexure being attached via a second flexure side to a disk-side surface of the rigid part of the load beam supporting the head, the second flexure side opposing said first flexure side, and the flexure extending along the rigid part, along the resilient part, and onto the base plate; the base plate having a flexure attaching face adjacent the base plate edge and oriented in the disk facing direction, the flexure attaching face being stepped away from a plane of the second joint part surface in a direction opposite to the disk facing direction so as to be recessed relative to the second joint part surface, said second joint part surface being coplanar with the disk-side surface of the rigid part; and the flexure having the second flexure side fixed to a surface of the rigid part and in contact with and fixed to the flexure attaching face.