US Patent Issued to Magnecomp on March 24 for "Gimbal design for hard disk drive device" (Thai, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,604, issued on March 24, was assigned to Magnecomp Corp. (Murrieta, Calif.).

"Gimbal design for hard disk drive device" was invented by Kuen Chee Ee (Chino, Calif.), Long Zhang (Winchester, Calif.), David Glaess (Bangkok) and Treesoon Kotchaplayuk (Wangnoi, Thailand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head gimbal assembly includes a gimbal having a base portion and a tongue that are joined together by a neck portion, a circuit mounted on the gimbal, a slider mounted on the tongue and electrically connected to the circuit, a first PZT actuator having a proximal end mounted on a first bonding site of the circuit and a distal end mounted ...