| US 7,531,753 B2 | ||
| Suspension board with circuit | ||
| Yasuhito Funada, Osaka (Japan); and Tetsuya Ohsawa, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Nitto Denko Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on May 06, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/123,181. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-140319 (JP), filed on May 10, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0248885 A1, Nov. 10, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H05K 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 174—254 [361/749] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A suspension board with circuit comprising:
a metal supporting layer extending in a longitudinal direction;
an insulating base layer formed on the metal supporting layer;
a conductor layer formed on the insulating base layer; and
an insulating cover layer, formed over the insulating base layer, so as to cover the conductor layer;
the suspension board with circuit further comprising:
a tongue portion for mounting a slider having a magnetic head thereon; and
outrigger portions provided at both sides of the tongue portion for adjusting floatation of the slider to a magnetic disc,
wherein each of the outrigger portions has a front opening located at one longitudinal position and a rear opening located
at another longitudinal position, from which a part of the conductor layer is exposed, formed in the insulating cover layer,
and the front opening at the one longitudinal position and the rear opening at the other longitudinal position are formed
in a spaced relation to each other in the longitudinal direction.
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