US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 25 for "Suspension arm and slider contact for magnetic storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,886, issued on March 25, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Suspension arm and slider contact for magnetic storage device" was invented by Kohichiroh Naka (Fujisawa, Japan), Yuhsuke Matsumoto (Fujisawa, Japan) and Hiroto Sato (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a suspension arm co-movably fixed to a carriage arm. The suspension arm comprises a slider attachment side and at least one first electrical contact pad on the slider attachment side. The suspension arm also comprises a slider co-movably fixed to the suspension arm. Th...