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High shock suspension with tethered flexure tongue

US6266212A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 27, 1998
Grant dateJul 24, 2001
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Expiry dateOct 27, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/488
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A disk drive suspension load beam suspension comprising a load beam and a flexure has an elongatable portion on the flexure frame attached to the flexure tongue tip for elongation by flexure tongue movement such that the flexure tongue is tethered against unduly large excursions but free to gimbal in the normal way as well.

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