Abstract: An input device includes a sensor unit, an optical layer superimposed on the sensor unit, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection region held between the optical layer and support base member. The flexible wiring substrate has a flexible base member on which an electrode layer is provided and a wiring end that is an end of the electrode layer and is conductive with the terminal part with a conductive joining member. The wiring end is set back from an end of the flexible base member, so that the flexible base member has a protruding part protruding toward the sensing region. Since the input device has, on the sensing region side relative to a front end of the protruding part, a part into which the conductive joining member does not stick out, an air bubble region between the sensor unit and the optical layer can be narrowed.

Abstract: An input device includes a support base member, a sensor unit having a plurality of electrode units (first electrodes and second electrodes) provided on the support base member, an extension extending outward from the support base member, a lead wire provided along a first principal surface of the extension and electrically conductive with the plurality of electrode units, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection terminal electrically conductive with the lead wire in a principal surface and disposed facing the first principal surface of the extension. The extension has a bend allowance section that allows bending between an extension end and a connection base connected to the support base member. The lead wire is electrically conductive with the connection terminal at the extension-end side of the extension relative to the bend allowance section. A cover is provided entirely over the lead wire located at the bend allowance section.

Abstract: A sensor base material and a photic base material such as a polarizing plate are stacked together. An opening is formed in the photic base material. Although the joining part of a flexible wiring board is joined to the sensor base material, a large portion of an opposing edge facing a display and input region, the opposing edge being part of the joining part, is positioned in the opening, so bubbles along the opposing edge are less likely to be generated, making the display quality of the display and input region less likely to be affected. In addition, since the both-side substrate ends of the joining part are sandwiched between the sensor base material and the photic base material, the joining part is less likely to be deformed, making it easy to prevent damage to the sensor base material.

Abstract: An input device includes a sensor unit, an optical layer superimposed on the sensor unit, and a flexible wiring substrate having a connection region held between the optical layer and support base member. The flexible wiring substrate has a flexible base member on which an electrode layer is provided and a wiring end that is an end of the electrode layer and is conductive with the terminal part with a conductive joining member. The wiring end is set back from an end of the flexible base member, so that the flexible base member has a protruding part protruding toward the sensing region. Since the input device has, on the sensing region side relative to a front end of the protruding part, a part into which the conductive joining member does not stick out, an air bubble region between the sensor unit and the optical layer can be narrowed.

Abstract: A sensor base material and a photic base material such as a polarizing plate are stacked together. An opening is formed in the photic base material. Although the joining part of a flexible wiring board is joined to the sensor base material, a large portion of an opposing edge facing a display and input region, the opposing edge being part of the joining part, is positioned in the opening, so bubbles along the opposing edge are less likely to be generated, making the display quality of the display and input region less likely to be affected. In addition, since the both-side substrate ends of the joining part are sandwiched between the sensor base material and the photic base material, the joining part is less likely to be deformed, making it easy to prevent damage to the sensor base material.

Abstract: A correcting method for reducing variations in floating height and gram load of a floating-type magnetic head device is disclosed. The correcting method includes a first correcting step of detecting a roll-angle corresponding amount in the free state of the front end of the front end and bending the load beam in the direction where the roll-angle corresponding amount approaches zero, and a second correcting step of putting the floating-type magnetic head device into a temporarily mounted state with respect to the load beam, detecting a roll-angle corresponding amount at the tongue piece of the flexure in the temporarily mounted state, and bending at least one of the left and right outriggers in the direction where the roll-angle corresponding amount approaches zero.

Abstract: A correcting method and load beam for reducing variations in floating height of a floating-type magnetic head device is disclosed The correcting method for the floating-type magnetic head device includes the steps of temporarily mounting the floating-type magnetic head device so as to float the head body over a disk equivalent surface; detecting a roll-angle corresponding amount at the end of the load beam in the temporarily mounted state; and correcting the floating-type magnetic head device on the basis of the roll-angle corresponding amount at the end of the load beam by bending the load beam in a direction in that a roll angle at the end approaches zero.

Abstract: A flexible wiring board for a magnetic head assembly is provided. The flexible wiring board includes a wiring pattern connected to a head body at one end and to an external circuit system at the other end, an insulation protection film that protects the wiring pattern, and a base composed of a metal that extends over the insulation protection film and the wiring pattern. The base has a guide through hole that functions as a guide for bending the base. The guide through hole has a plurality of notches disposed at different positions in a length direction of the base. The notches reduce a remaining width of the base in a bend width direction of the base.

Abstract: A holding portion, on which a slider having a magnetic element for recording and/or replaying is held is provided on a second supporting portion of a supporting member, in which conductive patterns are formed. A plurality of fixing portions are formed in the holding portion and when the slider is sandwiched between the plurality of fixing portions, the slider is electrically connected with the conductive patterns.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider and a method of manufacturing the same. At a leading side of a slider substrate, a shock absorbing layer is provided which has a hardness lower than a hardness of the slider substrate, and a projecting portion is provided on a surface of the shock absorbing layer. If an external force is applied to the slider substrate and the leading side of the slider substrate becomes closer to a magnetic disk, only the projecting portions contact with the magnetic disk. A height of a convex portion and a depth of a concave portion, which are generated on the surface of the magnetic disk, can be decreased, so that it is possible to prevent the magnetic disk from being damaged.

Abstract: A head element support apparatus having a load beam including a first elastic member, a second elastic member. The elastic members are fixedly joined together at a joining portion. The first elastic member has a first elastically deformable portion, the second elastic member has a second elastically deformable portion, and the bending rigidity of the first elastically deformable portion is lower than the bending rigidity of the second elastically deformable portion. The second elastically deformable portion is deformable about an intermediate pivot. The balance between a floating force and a load pressure, acting on a slider, may be maintained, and consequently, and the slider may move in a rolling direction and a pitching direction.

Abstract: A correcting method for reducing variations in floating height and gram load of a floating-type magnetic head device is disclosed. The floating-type magnetic head device includes a load beam, a flexure that has an elastically flexible tongue piece and disposed in the load beam adjacent to the recording medium, and a head body fixed on the surface of the tongue piece adjacent to the recording medium. During rotation of the recording medium, the head body floats over the recording medium.

Abstract: A flexible wiring board for a magnetic head assembly is provided. The flexible wiring board includes a wiring pattern connected to a head body at one end and to an external circuit system at the other end, an insulation protection film that protects the wiring pattern, and a base composed of a metal that extends over the insulation protection film and the wiring pattern. The base has a guide through hole that functions as a guide for bending the base. The guide through hole has a plurality of notches disposed at different positions in a length direction of the base. The notches reduce a remaining width of the base in a bend width direction of the base.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider and a method of manufacturing the same. At a leading side of a slider substrate, a shock absorbing layer is provided which has a hardness lower than a hardness of the slider substrate, and a projecting portion is provided on a surface of the shock absorbing layer. If an external force is applied to the slider substrate and the leading side of the slider substrate becomes closer to a magnetic disk, only the projecting portions contact with the magnetic disk. A height of a convex portion and a depth of a concave portion, which are generated on the surface of the magnetic disk, can be decreased, so that it is possible to prevent the magnetic disk from being damaged.

Abstract: A magnetic head may include a flexure coupled to a leading end of a load beam. The flexure may include a fixing portion fixed to the load beam, a pair of outriggers extending from opposite ends of the fixing portion toward the leading end of the load beam, a connector connecting the outriggers, a blade spring extending from a center of the connector toward the fixing portion in a space between the outriggers, and a tongue-shaped piece connected to and supported by the blade spring and having a slider on its surface facing a recording medium. The flexure may further include one or more slits. Thus, the tongue-shaped piece may be displaceably supported against elastic stress of portions of the blade spring and the connector.

Abstract: A correcting method and load beam for reducing variations in floating height of a floating-type magnetic head device is disclosed The correcting method for the floating-type magnetic head device includes the steps of temporarily mounting the floating-type magnetic head device so as to float the head body over a disk equivalent surface; detecting a roll-angle corresponding amount at the end of the load beam in the temporarily mounted state; and correcting the floating-type magnetic head device on the basis of the roll-angle corresponding amount at the end of the load beam by bending the load beam in a direction in that a roll angle at the end approaches zero.

Abstract: A head element support apparatus having a load beam including a first elastic member, a second elastic member. The elastic members are fixedly joined together at a joining portion. The first elastic member has a first elastically deformable portion, the second elastic member has a second elastically deformable portion, and the bending rigidity of the first elastically deformable portion is lower than the bending rigidity of the second elastically deformable portion. The second elastically deformable portion is deformable about an intermediate pivot. The balance between a floating force and a load pressure, acting on a slider, may be maintained, and consequently, and the slider may move in a rolling direction and a pitching direction.

Abstract: In a magnetic head adhesively fixing a slider having a thin film magnetic element on a slider adhesive tongue of a flexure made of metal material constituting a gimbal suspension through a plurality of spacer projections formed on the slider adhesive tongue, four spacer projections are provided on the slider adhesion tongue in a radial direction from a predetermined center position overlapping a center of an adhesive surface of the slider. The slider is adhered onto the spacer projections by adhesive resin applied therebetween.

Abstract: A head gimbal assembly has a gimbal suspension that includes a metal flexure bonded to a slider having a magnetic head element. This head gimbal assembly prevents damage from electrostatic discharge more efficiently. In the head gimbal assembly, a region of an oxide film on a slider-bonding surface of the flexure is completely or incompletely removed to form a film-removed region, and conductive adhesive resin is disposed between the film-removed region and the slider.

Abstract: A method for mounting a flexible flexure, which has a slider fixed thereto and having an electro-magnetic conversion element integrally, on a load beam includes the steps of joining a main flexure, which has a junction piece for joining the load beam, to the load beam with the junction piece therebetween; inspecting characteristics by floating the electromagnetic conversion element onto a magnetic disc; when the characteristics do not satisfy a reference as a result of the inspection, removing the main flexure from the load beam by cleaving the main flexure at a cleavage part disposed in a vicinity of the junction piece; and at least one time joining a sub-flexure having no junction piece to the load beam, from which the main flexure is removed.