Abstract: According to an embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a support plate, a wiring member, a magnetic head and drive members. A gimbal portion of the wiring member includes a thin metallic plate including a tongue portion mounted with a magnetic head, a proximal end portion fixed to the support plate, support projections, and link portions, an insulating layer including first bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to the tongue portion, and second bridge portions extending from the proximal end portion to middle portions of the first bridges, and a conducive layer including signal wirings extending to the tongue portion through the second and first bridge portions, and reinforcement wiring portions. The drive members are provided at the first bridge portions.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head suspension assembly includes: a metal thin plate held by a head suspension; a fixed plate formed in the metal thin plate and joined to the head suspension; a supporting plate formed in the metal thin plate on the front side of the fixed plate and supporting a head slider on a surface thereof and held on a rear surface thereof by a protrusion formed on the head suspension; an arm formed in the metal thin plate and extending from the fixed plate to the supporting plate and allowing a change in a posture of the supporting plate; an insulating layer extending from the fixed plate to the supporting plate and supported by the arm; a wiring pattern formed on the insulating layer; and a visco-elastic body arranged on a flat surface formed on the arm, the insulating layer, or the wiring pattern.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and an actuator. The magnetic disk stores data. The magnetic head floats due to an air flow produced by the rotation of the magnetic disk to write and read data to and from the magnetic disk. The actuator includes a suspension and an actuator arm. The suspension supports the magnetic head. The actuator arm supports the suspension. The actuator is provided with a strip projection, a bump, a plurality of projections, or a concave portion on the upstream side of an air flow produced by the rotation of the magnetic disk.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic head assembly includes a magnetic head, a tang portion, a pair of arm portions, a connecting portion, a flexure, a load beam, and a damper. The tang portion supports the magnetic head. The arm portions support the tang portion, and are connected to the tang portion while being connected to each other at a rear side of the tang portion. The connecting portion connects the arm portions. The flexure has a narrow portion being narrow in the width direction behind the connecting portion. The flexure guides wirings extending backward the narrow portion to be connected to the magnetic head. The load beam extends in the front-back direction while supporting the flexure, and has an opening through which a portion of the flexure is exposed. The damper is arranged on the load beam and the portion of the flexure.

Abstract: A hinge plate is bonded to a base plate and a load beam in a head suspension assembly. The load beam includes a wide section and a narrow section extending forward from the front end of the wide section. The head suspension assembly allows the load beam to have a narrower width based on the narrow section. The load beam is thus allowed to enjoy a reduced weight. The mass is reduced at a position distanced from the centerline of the load beam. This results in a reduction in the inertial force around the centerline in the load beam. The inventors have demonstrated that the resonance frequency of the first torsion mode is allowed to fall in a higher frequency range. The resonance of the head suspension assembly can be reduced.

Abstract: A head assembly for writing or reading information to or from a recording medium. The head assembly includes a suspension having an electrode pad; a mounting member placed on the suspension; a head mounted on the mounting member and having an electrode, for writing or reading information; and a first bonding member made of a hot-melt adhesive and fixing the electrode to the electrode pad.

Abstract: A plate member is made of a metal material lighter than stainless steel in a suspension for a head slider. This leads to a reduction in the weight of the suspension. The natural frequency of the suspension is thus raised. Moreover, the viscoelastic member is interposed between the front surface of the plate member and the back surface of the flexure. This structure allows either the plate member or the flexure to act as a base and the other to act as a constraining member. In other words, the plate member, the flexure and the viscoelastic member in combination act as a so-called vibration damper including constraining layers. The viscoelastic member serves to further suppress vibration of the plate member and the flexure.

Abstract: Connecting pieces extend outward from the support plate in the opposite directions along a crossline. A flexure body is connected to the connecting pieces. A pad is fixed to the support plate at a position ahead of the crossline. A wiring pattern extends from a pad. The wiring pattern defines a first straight portion extending forward from the flexure body along a first straight line. A second straight portion extends along a second straight line intersecting with the first straight line. A curved portion connects the first straight portion to the second straight portion. The curved portion expands outward from at least one of the first and second straight lines. The support plate merely suffers from a bending at a position ahead of the imaginary crossline even if the solder generates a stress based on its shrinkage. The wiring pattern serves to absorb the stress.

Abstract: Vibrations in a magnetic head assembly equipped with a magnetic head, caused by the effects of the flow of air arising from the high-speed rotation of a magnetic disk, can be suppressed by affixing a damping material to the magnetic head assembly. As a result, accurate positioning is possible with high reliability, the frequency of occurrence of errors during data recording and playback can be suppressed, high data transfer rates can be maintained, and high recording densities for a magnetic disk device can be realized.

Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a ramp which holds a tip end of an arm at a position away from a disk, and a slit shroud having an airflow control plate. A side surface of the airflow control plate is opposed to a side surface of the disk, the airflow control plate spreads to a position where the airflow control plate is superposed on the tip end of the arm held by the ramp. The airflow control plate has the same thickness as that of the disk, and is flush with the disk 12.

Abstract: A hinge plate is bonded to a base plate and a load beam in a head suspension assembly. The load beam includes a wide section and a narrow section extending forward from the front end of the wide section. The head suspension assembly allows the load beam to have a narrower width based on the narrow section. The load beam is thus allowed to enjoy a reduced weight. The mass is reduced at a position distanced from the centerline of the load beam. This results in a reduction in the inertial force around the centerline in the load beam. The inventors have demonstrated that the resonance frequency of the first torsion mode is allowed to fall in a higher frequency range. The resonance of the head suspension assembly can be reduced.

Abstract: A plate member is made of a metal material lighter than stainless steel in a suspension for a head slider. This leads to a reduction in the weight of the suspension. The natural frequency of the suspension is thus raised. Moreover, the viscoelastic member is interposed between the front surface of the plate member and the back surface of the flexure. This structure allows either the plate member or the flexure to act as a base and the other to act as a constraining member. In other words, the plate member, the flexure and the viscoelastic member in combination act as a so-called vibration damper including constraining layers. The viscoelastic member serves to further suppress vibration of the plate member and the flexure.

Abstract: Vibrations in a magnetic head assembly equipped with a magnetic head, caused by the effects of the flow of air arising from the high-speed rotation of a magnetic disk, can be suppressed by affixing a damping material to the magnetic head assembly. As a result, accurate positioning is possible with high reliability, the frequency of occurrence of errors during data recording and playback can be suppressed, high data transfer rates can be maintained, and high recording densities for a magnetic disk device can be realized.