NHK Spring Assigned Patent

NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12051449) developed by Yamada; Yukie, Yokohama, Japan, for “flexure of suspension for disk drive and suspension for disk drive, the flexure having an area with reduced thickness where an electronic component is mounted.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A flexure of a suspension for a disk drive includes a metal base and a wiring portion provided along the metal base and including a base insulation layer, a conductor layer overlaid on the base insulation layer, and a cover insulation layer overlaid on the conductor layer. The flexure includes a first area on which an electronic component is mounted and a second area aligned alongside the first area, and the first area includes a thin-walled portion which overlaps the electronic component and having a thickness less than a thickness of the second area.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-02-21 (18/172209).