US Patent Issued to Magnecomp on May 13 for "Hard disk drive gimbal design with high torsion frequencies" (American, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,281, issued on May 13, was assigned to Magnecomp Corp. (Murrieta, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive gimbal design with high torsion frequencies" was invented by Kuen Chee Ee (Chino, Calif.) and Ekaratch Pankaew (Wangnoi, Thailand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trace gimbal is described herein. In some embodiments, the trace gimbal includes outer struts including a front outrigger at a distal end of the trace gimbal and a rear outrigger at a proximal end of the trace gimbal. The front outrigger includes a distal front outrigger and a proximal front outrigger, and the rear outrigger includes a distal rear outrigger and a proximal rear outrig...