US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 31 for "Load beam fine actuator protection feature" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,251, issued on March 31, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load beam fine actuator protection feature" was invented by Kia Moh Teo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head gimbal assembly (HGA), such as for a hard disk drive (HDD), includes a load beam formed with proximal openings therethrough and a flexure coupled with the load beam, where the flexure includes a tongue portion to which a fine actuator is coupled and the tongue portion includes corner portions proximal to the fine actuator. Each opening of the load beam is shaped and positioned to overlay the corner portion of the...