Head support mechanism with counter balance and centroid adjustment pads

1. A head support mechanism including a slider on which a head element is mounted is arranged at a tip end part of a load beam, the head support mechanism comprising:

a support projection arranged at the tip end part of the load beam;

a gimbal part including the slider and arranged to support the slider in a revolvable manner around the support projection;

a displacement member arranged to revolve the slider around the support projection; and

a counter balance aligned along a symmetric axis of the gimbal part so as to align a centroid of the gimbal part including the slider with the support projection, wherein

a centroid adjustment mechanism is arranged on the counter balance in order to adjust the centroid of the gimbal part, and

the centroid adjustment mechanism includes a plurality of centroid adjustment pads that are independently arranged with respect to each other to apply a material having a large relative density onto the counter balance.

2. The head support mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein

the counter balance is a portion of the gimbal part.

3. The head support mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein

the material having the large relative density is solder.

4. The head support mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein

the displacement member includes a piezoelectric element arranged at an insulation layer of a flexure, and

the displacement member allows the slider to revolve around the support projection by pushing or pulling a wire via a reinforcement part formed of a stainless substrate in accordance with displacements of the piezoelectric element.

5. The head support mechanism according to claim 1 , wherein

a limiter mechanism, which is arranged to lift the slider upward from a disk when the slider unloads, is a portion of the counter balance.