US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Oct. 20 for "Disk drive suspension" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,652, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Disk drive suspension" was invented by Tatsuhiko Nishida (Yokohama, Japan) and Mikio Arai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension of an embodiment includes a first actuator including a piezoelectric element, a second actuator including a piezoelectric element, and a third actuator including a piezoelectric element. A first conductor supplies a first alternating current to the first actuator. A second conductor supplies a second alternating current to the second actuator. A third conductor supplies a third alternating current with a ph...