Suspension assembly and actuator having the same in hard disk drive

1. A suspension assembly used with a HDD (hard disk drive), the suspension assembly to elastically bias a slider having a read/write head toward a surface of a disk, and comprising:

a load beam coupled to an end of a swing arm of an actuator;

a flexure attached to the load beam to support the slider; and

a tip-tab which extends from a front end of the load beam to contact a ramp that is installed in the vicinity of the disk when the read/write head is parked, wherein a width of a contact part of the tip-tab that contacts the ramp is wider than other parts of the tip-tab, the contact part of the tip-tab is positioned in the middle part of the tip-tab in a longitudinal direction, and a width of a part engaged with the load beam and a width of a front part of the tip-tab are smaller than the width of the contact part.

2. The suspension assembly of claim 1 , wherein the width of the tip-tab increases gradually from the front end of the load beam up to the contact part, and decreases gradually after the contact part.

3. The suspension assembly of claim 1 , wherein the tip-tab has a section that is convex toward the ramp.

4. The suspension assembly of claim 3 , wherein a curvature radius of the contact part is larger than a curvature radius of the front part.

5. An actuator used with an HDD, the actuator comprising:

a swing arm rotatably mounted on a base member;

a suspension assembly elastically biasing a slider having a read/write head toward a surface of a disk; and

a VCM (voice coil motor) rotating the swing arm to move the read/write head to a predetermined position on the disk,

wherein the suspension assembly comprises:

a load beam coupled to an end of a swing arm of an actuator;

a flexure attached to the load beam to support the slider; and

a tip-tab which extends from a front end of the load beam to contact a ramp that is installed in the vicinity of the disk when the read/write head is parked, wherein a width of a contact part of the tip-tab that contacts the ramp is wider than other parts of the tip-tab, the contact part of the tip-tab is positioned in the middle part of the tip-tab in a longitudinal direction, and a width of a part engaged with the load beam and a width of a front part of the tip-tab are smaller than the width of the contact part.

6. The actuator of claim 5 , wherein the width of the tip-tab increases gradually from the front end of the load beam up to the contact part, and decreases gradually after the contact part.

7. The actuator of claim 5 , wherein the tip-tab has a section that is convex toward the ramp.

8. The actuator of claim 7 , wherein a curvature radius of the contact part is larger than a curvature radius of the front part.

9. A swing arm of a suspension assembly, comprising:

a load beam extending from the swing arm;

a flexure extending below the load beam and including a slider to read from and write to a disk; and

a tip-tab extending from an end of the load beam opposite to the swing arm, the tip-tab including a convex shape and being curved while extending away from the load beam such that the curve of the tip-tab includes sides which extend toward each other to form a narrow width W 1 and then away from each other to form a wider width W 2 and then back toward each other to form a narrow width W 3 .

10. The swing arm of claim 9 , wherein W 2 >W 1 >W 3 .

11. The swing arm of claim 10 , wherein the convex shape of the tip-tab has a first radius R 11 at W 1 , and second radius R 12 at W 2 and a third radius R 13 at W 3 .

12. The swing arm of claim 11 , wherein R 12 is substantially greater than R 11 and R 13 .