公开(公告)号：DE69613996D1

公开(公告)日：2001-08-23

申请号：DE69613996

申请日：1996-11-13

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： FRATER KERMIT ,  HOFFMANN MARK ,  INGALLS HAROLD ,  KRIEHN JOHN

IPC: G11B21/21 ,  G11B5/105 ,  G11B5/40 ,  G11B5/48 ,  G11B5/55 ,  G11B21/16

Abstract: A uniquely configured flexure tongue of a head/gimbal assembly (HGA) provides for parallel positioning of a slider air bearing surface (ABS) during merge and a limitation of pitch of the slider during non-merge. A cantilevered end of the flexure tongue is provided with a finger extension which can be employed for merge operations and a remainder cantilevered end portion adjacent a base of the finger can be employed for limiting pitch of the slider. When a merge comb engages multiple flexure fingers of multiple suspensions in a head stack assembly the air bearing surfaces of the sliders are positioned parallel with respect to one another. This allows maximum disk stack density when a head stack assembly is merged with a head stack assembly. The flexure finger allows various arrangements to be employed for implementing a merge. The present invention also cooperates with a prior art roll limiter so that during merge a three point fixation normalizes a slider at zero pitch.

公开(公告)号：DE69613996T2

公开(公告)日：2002-01-17

申请号：DE69613996

申请日：1996-11-13

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： FRATER KERMIT ,  HOFFMANN MARK ,  INGALLS HAROLD ,  KRIEHN JOHN

IPC: G11B21/21 ,  G11B5/105 ,  G11B5/40 ,  G11B5/48 ,  G11B5/55 ,  G11B21/16

Abstract: A uniquely configured flexure tongue of a head/gimbal assembly (HGA) provides for parallel positioning of a slider air bearing surface (ABS) during merge and a limitation of pitch of the slider during non-merge. A cantilevered end of the flexure tongue is provided with a finger extension which can be employed for merge operations and a remainder cantilevered end portion adjacent a base of the finger can be employed for limiting pitch of the slider. When a merge comb engages multiple flexure fingers of multiple suspensions in a head stack assembly the air bearing surfaces of the sliders are positioned parallel with respect to one another. This allows maximum disk stack density when a head stack assembly is merged with a head stack assembly. The flexure finger allows various arrangements to be employed for implementing a merge. The present invention also cooperates with a prior art roll limiter so that during merge a three point fixation normalizes a slider at zero pitch.