Suspension assembly including a dimple that contacts a flexure tongue dielectric layer through a hole in a flexure tongue structural layer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7864488
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11717299

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A suspension assembly includes a load beam having a protruding dimple and a laminate flexure. The laminate flexure includes a structural layer that is attached to the load beam, and a dielectric layer. The laminate flexure includes a flexure tongue for mounting a head. The flexure tongue includes the structural layer and the dielectric layer and a hole that extends through the structural layer but not through the dielectric layer. The dimple contacts the dielectric layer via the hole.

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  • WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Pan, Tzong-Shii San Jose, US 95 3103

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