Appeal No. 2002-1157
Application No. 08/901,940
positioned on a slider which is mounted on a gimbal spring with
an adhesive agent. According to Appellants, at least a slit
formed in a slider-mounting portion of the gimbal spring prevents
the adhesive agent from spreading beyond the slit and limits the
area on which the adhesive agent is applied (specification,
page 4). A small contact area limits the warping of the slider
which is caused by different coefficients of linear expansion
between the slider and the gimbal spring (id.).
Representative independent claims 58 and 59 and dependent
claim 60 are reproduced below:
58. A magnetic head assembly comprising a slider having a
magnetic head for reading data from and writing data onto a
magnetic recording medium, and a gimbal spring having a slider-
mounting portion on which said slider is mounted with an adhesive
agent, wherein said adhesive agent is located on a part of said
slider-mounting portion which opposes an adhesion surface of said
slider, wherein at least two slits are formed in said slider-
mounting portion of said gimbal spring and said gimbal spring is
formed integrally with a load beam, and is constituted by said
slider-mounting portion being partitioned from said load beam by
two opposing U-shaped holes that are formed in a tip portion of
said load beam, two opposing V-shaped holes that are formed on
the outsides of the two opposing U-shaped holes, and a pair of
beam portions via which said slider-mounting portion is supported
by said load beam, wherein said part of said slider-mounting
portion onto which said adhesive agent is located is limited by
said at least two slits.
59. A magnetic head assembly comprising:
a slider having a magnetic head for reading data from,
and writing data onto, a magnetic recording medium, and
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