US 12,462,835 B2
Disk apparatus including flexure having portions of different thicknesses
Yusuke Nojima, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki (JP); and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed by Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/591,696.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-156636 (JP), filed on Sep. 22, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0104734 A1, Mar. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/53 (2006.01); G11B 5/82 (2006.01)
CPC G11B 5/4833 (2013.01) [G11B 5/4853 (2013.01); G11B 5/531 (2013.01); G11B 5/82 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A disk apparatus comprising:
a carriage configured to rotate around a first rotation axis;
a magnetic disk;
a base plate attached to the carriage and including a first surface that faces the magnetic disk;
a load beam attached to the base plate;
a flexure including a plurality of wirings and attached to the base plate and the load beam; and
a magnetic head attached to the flexure, electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of wirings, and configured to write and read information to and from the magnetic disk,
the flexure including a thin portion, the thin portion being thinner than other portions of the flexure, and
the thin portion including a first portion that covers the first surface of the base plate and includes at least two of the plurality of wirings, wherein the two wirings of the first portion are non-parallel.