High shock suspension with tethered flexure tongue
US6266212A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 27, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jul 24, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 27, 2018 |
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- 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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