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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8040635 | Substrate for suspension, and production process thereof A substrate for suspension which is produced at low costs and can sufficiently attain the prevention of damage by electrostatic discharge and restraint of noises. The substrate for suspension includes: a metallic substrate, an insulating layer formed on the metallic... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7710687 | High conductivity ground planes for integrated lead suspensions An integrated lead flexure or suspension including an insulating layer, a plurality of traces on the insulating layer and a stainless steel base layer on the side of the insulating layer opposite the traces. The traces are free of a conductive shield layer on the si... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7710719 | Mobile hard disk box A hard disk box includes a tray, a cover, and a enclosure. The tray includes a bezel and a bottom plate. The bottom plate includes a locking portion forming a catch. The cover includes a rear wall, and an insert wall extending from a side of the rear wall. A hook ex... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692899 | Head suspension having wiring disposed in contact with slightly conductive flexible resin A head suspension prevents a read element from electrostatic discharge damage without employing a static electricity remover or without increasing the number of manufacturing processes. The head suspension has a load beam to apply load to a head that writes and read... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7551399 | Head suspension including flexure having as elastic bending section A plate member is made of a metal material lighter than stainless steel in a suspension for a head slider. This leads to a reduction in the weight of the suspension. The natural frequency of the suspension is thus raised. Moreover, the viscoelastic member is interpo... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545606 | Head element support apparatus with elastic material A head element support apparatus having a load beam including a first elastic member, a second elastic member. The elastic members are fixedly joined together at a joining portion. The first elastic member has a first elastically deformable portion, the second elast... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542239 | Disc flutter compensating suspension A suspension is provided, which has a base, a load beam and a hinge structure. The hinge structure and at least one of the base and the load beam are formed of a single continuous piece of multiple layer laminate material, which includes first and second layers. The... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7492553 | Suspension, head gimbal assembly with a multilayered and reinforced suspension and disk drive apparatus with head gimbal assembly A suspension includes a multilayered plate member formed by at least three layers laminated together. The modulus of elasticity of neighboring layers of the at least three layers are different from each other. Both side edges of only a part of the layers of the mult... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7477487 | Multi-layered and shaped load beam for disk drive suspensions A disk drive head suspension of the type having a rigid beam region extending from a spring region and a flexure on the beam region. The beam region is etched from a laminate sheet of material having first and second stainless steel layers separated by a polyimide l... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466517 | Unified suspension laminate One embodiment of the present invention provides a unified suspension that includes an integral, continuous laminate, which has a thick actuator arm portion, a thin pre-load portion, and a beam portion, all formed of the same single laminate. The pre-load portion is... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7460337 | Low density, high rigidity disk drive suspension for high resonance frequency applications A disk drive suspension component for carrying a slider at a disk is formed of a laminate of at least three metal layers of like mechanical and chemical formability, including a first outer layer, a second outer layer, and an intermediate layer, at least one of the ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7441323 | Method of aligning components for installation on a head suspension assembly A head suspension for supporting a head slider over a storage media in a dynamic storage device is provided with a head suspension component having a spring metal layer, an electrically conductive layer and a dielectric layer interposed between the metal layer and t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7388733 | Method for making noble metal conductive leads for suspension assemblies A method of manufacturing an integrated lead head suspension flexure of the type having conductors on a spring metal layer capable of being etched by a first etching process. The method includes forming a patterned layer having gaps one or more flying lead regions o... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7375927 | Laminated headlift structure for disk drive suspensions A head suspension load beam including a beam region and a headlift formed by etching from a laminated sheet of material having first and second stainless steel layers separated by a polyimide layer. The beam region includes a base portion formed from the first stain... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368227 | Method to print photoresist lines with negative sidewalls It is very difficult to produce a negative wall angle from either negative or positive-tone chemically amplified resists, especially by e-beam lithography. This problem has now been overcome by first forming a photoresist pedestal in the conventional way, followed b... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367108 | Method of bonding flying leads A method of bonding flying leads produces reliable bonds between the flying leads and substrate pads and can efficiently bond a plurality of flying leads and a plurality of substrate pads using a bonding tool. Flying leads are respectively aligned with a plurality o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367119 | Method for forming a reinforced tip for a probe storage device Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media. In an embodiment, the tip comprises a substantially hollow structure formed of a metal. The tip can be formed by depositing a first metal layer over silicon ther... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365944 | Magnetic head suspension with reduced mass load beam portion A magnetic head suspension includes a flexure portion, a load bend portion, a load beam portion, and a base portion. The load beam portion includes: a base end area continuously connected with the load bend portion; an intermediate area extending from the base end a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359157 | Resin and metal head suspension for disk drive A head suspension for a disk drive has support plate means (3, 7) serving as a carriage arm and a load beam (5). The load beam consists of a rigid part (13) and a resilient part (15), to apply load to a slider (43) of a head. The s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359158 | Suspension of disc drive A suspension for disc drive has a base portion including a base plate, a load beam, a pair of hinge members, a wired flexure, etc. The wired flexure has a metal base and a wiring portion on the metal base. The hinge members are fixed overlapping the rear end portion... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352533 | Head suspension with polymer stiffener A head suspension assembly including a stainless steel hinge member, an integrated lead flexure and a polymer stiffener member. The stainless steel hinge member includes a proximal mounting region, a beam region having a load point dimple, and a spring region betwee... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352537 | Tuned damper for disk drive actuator arm Embodiments of the present invention include a disk drive actuator arm for reducing amplitude of vibration modes substantially planar to a disk surface. The actuator arm comprises a plurality of head arms coupled to the actuator arm, the head arms substantially equa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352535 | Method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk and signal loss in flexing interconnects of an electrical lead suspension A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk and signal loss in an electrical interconnect is disclosed. The electrical interconnect includes a laminate. A plurality of signal traces and a subsequent plurality of traces are in a first formed layer of the laminate. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7337452 | Tilt focus mechanism for an optical drive An apparatus for dynamically positioning a rotary actuator that positions an objective lens in three dimensions relative to the surface of an optical disk. A first voice coil motor positions the actuator generally in two dimensions parallel to the surface of the dis... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336524 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a contact probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the contact probe can include a silicon core having a conductive coating. Contact pro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333299 | Head supporting mechanism including two load beams with ribs overlapped with each other A suspension is provided, which comprises: a flexure with elasticity for supporting a head slider having at least one head element; a first load beam having first ribs for reinforcement at both side ends of the first load beam, for supporting the flexure; and a seco... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7319573 | Magnetic disk drive having a suspension mounted transmission line including read and write conductors and a lower conductor Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive which has improved electrical properties owing to a reduction in the loss of transmission line, improved vibration properties owing to a reduction in the stiffness of wiring around the head, and a flat imped... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317595 | Suspension assembly and rotary disk storage device Embodiments of the invention provide a suspension assembly offering large peel stiffness, small pitch stiffness and small roll stiffness. In one embodiment, the suspension assembly includes a load beam and a flexure 100. The flexure is connected to the load b... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309630 | Method for forming patterned media for a high density data storage device Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the cells being electrically isolated from the other of the cells by a m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304823 | Suspension for head slider having higher resistance to vibration A suspension for a head slider includes a load beam. A base material of the load beam is covered with first and second elastic films extending on the front and back surfaces of the base material. The second elastic film is continuous with the first elastic film. The... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301729 | Suspension, head gimbal assembly with multilayered plate suspension having ribs and disk drive apparatus with head gimbal assembly A suspension includes a multilayered plate member formed by at least three layers laminated together. The modulus of elasticity of neighboring layers of the at least three layers are different from each other. Both side edges of only a part of the layers of the mult... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293348 | Method of forming a suspension for use in a disk drive having a media disk A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material which has improved damping characteristics. The load beam additionally h... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293411 | Energy scavengers which adjust their frequency by altering liquid distributions on a beam A selectively configurable beam and systems utilizing such are disclosed. The distribution of mass of the beam can be selectively adjusted or altered by adjusting one or more characteristics of the beam. Specific strategies utilizing continuous electro-wetting, and ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292411 | Disk head suspension arm having comb receiving portion A head suspension for a disk drive includes a base (5) to be attached to a carriage, a load beam (3) having a rigid part (9) and a resilient part (11) supported by the base, to apply load on a data read/write head (19) arranged at ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283330 | Method of manufacturing a suspension using coining A method of manufacturing a suspension member designed to carry a slider and read/write head elements in a magnetic data storage device. The method includes forming the suspension member into a desired length and width configuration with a nominal thickness dimensio... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260051 | Molecular memory medium and molecular memory integrated circuit A molecular memory media having a media surface and a platform with read/write heads. The platform and media are moved to allow one of addition, removal, and repositioning of atoms, electrons, and charges on a surface of the media. The media is a material capable of... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7241837 | Vibration damper composition The present invention has for its object to provide a damping material which, despite a high damping capacity at and around room temperature, has a small temperature dependence of rigidity at and around room temperature and a damping material having hot-melt process... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236330 | Disk head stability system A slider assembly, comprising a slider having a magnetic head for reading and/or writing to a storage medium, and a vibration absorber operatively coupled to the slider for reducing mechanical vibrations of the slider caused by contact of the slider with the storage... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233517 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises an atomic probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the atomic probe can include a core having a conductive coating. The core can compris... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224554 | Suspension load beam with a composite damping core A suspension load beam used for attachment to a slider assembly and an actuation arm in a disc drive for data storage has a rigid middle beam section comprising a rigid bottom layer, a rigid top layer and a composite core layer sandwiched between the bottom layer an... | 05/29/2007 |
