ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,870, issued on July 21, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Disk drive suspension having first and second actuator mounting portions" was invented by Tatsuhiko Nishida (Yokohama, Japan) and Masao Hanya (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension includes a first actuator arrangement portion and a second actuator arrangement portion. The first actuator arrangement portion includes a load beam frame portion formed of a part of the load beam. Both ends of a first actuator element are supported by the load beam frame portion. The second actuator arrangement portion includes a second load beam frame po...