| 摘要 |
A suspension assembly for supporting a slider over a disk surface within a rigid disk drive includes a load beam with a flexure at a distal end of the load beam, the flexure of the type having a cantilever portion with a free-end and a limiter for restricting the range of flexure of the free-end of the cantilever portion. The flexure of the present invention has a cantilever portion provided with an integral limiter and stop surface. The limiter is preferably connected with the flexure by a bend. More preferably, a single bend of about 90 degrees is provided for each limiter. In accordance with the method of the present invention, a suspension assembly is made by forming a flexure having a cantilever portion with a free-end and a limiter from the same sheet material, and forming the limiter so that an engagement surface thereof is spaced from a stop surface of the flexure so that movement of the free-end of the cantilever portion in one direction will cause the limiter engagement surface to contact the stop surface of the flexure. Specifically, the step of forming the cantilever portion and the limiter from the same material preferably comprises an etching operation. Moreover, the forming operation preferably comprises a bending operation to form a single bend in the limiter of about 90 degrees.
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