Flexure for implementation on a suspension in a hard disk drive for resisting windage effects

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8929033-B2
Application number	US-12021805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 2, 2005
Priority date	May 2, 2005
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A flexure resistant to windage effects present during operation of a hard disk drive is described. The flexure includes an end portion proximal to a slider. The flexure further includes an opposite end portion proximal to a tail of an actuator arm having swaged therewith a suspension. The flexure is interposed between the slider and the tail. The flexure also includes a flexure direction re-router. The flexure direction re-router has an inner radius and an outer radius. The outer radius of the flexure has greater rigidity than the inner radius. This greater rigidity provides resistance against the windage effects.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A flexure for implementation on a suspension in a hard disk drive, said flexure resistant to windage effects present during operation of said hard disk drive, said flexure comprising:
an end portion proximal to a slider;
an opposite end portion proximal to a tail of an actuator arm having swaged therewith said suspension, said flexure interposed between said slider and said tail, said suspension including a mount plate, a load beam, and a hinge plate that…

Assignees

• Shum Wing Chun
• HGST Netherlands BV

Inventors

• Shum Wing Chun

Classifications

• G11B5/4833 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic