US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Oct. 20 for "Manufacturing method of a disk drive suspension" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,651, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Manufacturing method of a disk drive suspension" was invented by Takahiro Senda (Yokohama, Japan), Osamu Iriuchijima (Yokohama, Japan) and Junji Sumiyoshi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a manufacturing method of a disk drive suspension comprises determining a first position on the outrigger at which a bent portion is to be formed by irradiating a first laser beam, calculating predicted values of pitch and roll angles of a tongue in a case where the bent portion is formed at the first position, determining a sec...