US Patent Issued to Magnecomp on July 28 for "Disk drive suspension assembly with single actuator" (American, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,898, issued on July 28, was assigned to Magnecomp Corp. (Murrieta, Calif.).

"Disk drive suspension assembly with single actuator" was invented by Kuen Chee Ee (Chino, Calif.), Long Zhang (Winchester, Calif.) and David Glaess (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension assembly includes a load beam, a base plate connected to the load beam, and a single actuator disposed in an opening of the base plate. The single actuator is formed of a crystal material that expands along a first axis and contracts along a second orthogonal axis, and expands along the second axis and contracts along the first axis in response to respective fi...