NHK Spring Assigned Patent

NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11602928) developed by Nakano, Kenichiro, Yokohama, Japan, for “method of manufacturing disk drive suspension and manufacturing apparatus of the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of manufacturing a disk drive suspension includes applying an adhesive to an actuator mounting portion, increasing viscosity of the adhesive by emitting light to the adhesive applied to the actuator mounting portion, arranging the piezoelectric element on the adhesive having the increased viscosity, detecting a height of the piezoelectric element arranged on the actuator mounting portion, and correcting an irradiation condition of the light in accordance with the detected height of the piezoelectric element.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-09-27 (17/486824).