US 7,511,925 B1
Windage insensitive disk drive suspension
Rafael Cuevas, Temecula, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Magnecomp Corporation, Temecula, Calif. (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/303,126.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/677225, filed on May 02, 2005.
Int. Cl. G11B 21/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 360—266 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disk drive suspension for use in windage conditions, said suspension comprising a base portion, a hinge portion supported by said base portion, and a beam portion supported by said hinge portion and having a surface, said beam portion having a longitudinal axis and extending along said axis in a flat plane to a distal terminus and continuously progressively tapering inward toward said terminus within said plane, said beam portion surface having surface features inducing tracking error-causing perturbations of said beam portion from windage contact with said features, and an airfoil profile-defining deflector in operative association with said beam portion in windage-surface feature contact blocking relation.