US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Suspension load beam rail-based gimbal limiter" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,922, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Suspension load beam rail-based gimbal limiter" was invented by Kia Moh Teo (San Jose, Calif.) and Hiroyasu Tsuchida (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head gimbal assembly (HGA), such as for a hard disk drive (HDD), includes a load beam formed with a deck and side rails extending away from each lateral edge of the deck in a direction away from a corresponding flexure, where each side rail portion includes a limiter structure extending from the side rail in a direction toward the flexure, the limiter structure including a hooki...