NHK Spring Assigned Patent
Disk device suspension having load beam provided with damper member to which outrigger is attachedmption
By Francis Pelletier | January 19, 2022 at 2:00 pmNHK Spring Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,211,085) developed by Yamada, Yukie, Yokohama, Japan, for a “disk device suspension having a load beam provided with a damper member to which an outrigger is attached.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A suspension for a disk device comprises a load beam, a flexure and a damper member. The flexure overlaps the load beam, and comprises a tongue on which a slider is mounted and an outrigger connected to the tongue. The damper member is attached to the load beam. The outrigger comprises an arm opposing the load beam, and a folded portion extending from the arm and folded back in a thickness direction of the arm. Further, the folded portion is attached to the damper member.”
The patent application was filed on March 9, 2021 (17/196,739).
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