US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 31 for "Suspension flexure forming for gimbaling clearance" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,250, issued on March 31, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Suspension flexure forming for gimbaling clearance" was invented by Kia Moh Teo (San Jose, Calif.), Hiroyasu Tsuchida (Fujisawa, Japan), Yanning Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Haruhide Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension assembly for a hard disk drive includes a load beam coupled with a corresponding flexure via a centerline weld at a distal portion of the flexure, where the flexure further includes a gimbal portion at least in part formed away from the load beam in proximity to the centerline weld. The gimb...