Hutchinson Technology Assigned Patent

Hutchinson Technology Inc., Hutchinson, MN, has been assigned a patent (10,957,349) developed by Pokornowski, Zachary A., Cokato, MN, Ruzicka, Ryan N., Waconia, MN, and Bjorstrom, Jacob D., Hutchinson, MN, for “co-located gimbal-based dual stage actuation disk drive head suspension manufacturing method with non-parallel motors.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments of disk drive head suspensions are described that include a spring metal layer. The spring metal layer includes a base region, support arms extending from the base region, and a slider mounting region. The slider mounting region includes a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a pair of motor openings. The motor openings are configured to receive motors such that the longitudinal axes of the motors are non-parallel with the longitudinal axis of the slider mounting region. The suspensions include traces that include a base portion on the base region of the spring metal layer, a spring metal-unsupported portion extending from the base region to the slider mounting region, and a slider mounting portion extending from the spring metal-unsupported portion onto the slider mounting region. And, the suspensions include an insulating layer between portions of the spring metal layer and the conductor layer.”

The patent application was filed on August 5, 2019 (16/532,37