1. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion having left and right edges, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent, said spring portion left and right edges having separate local stiffening structures interrupted at a locus intermediate said spring portion length, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption.
2. The disk drive suspension according to claim 1, in which said base portion and said spring portion are separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion separate local stiffening structures having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
3. The disk drive suspension according to claim 2, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
4. The disk drive suspension according to claim 3, in which said separate local stiffening structures include a pair of left and right hand proximate stiffening structure extents and a pair of left and right hand distal stiffening structure extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate stiffening structure extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
5. The disk drive suspension according to claim 4, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate local stiffening structures extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
6. The disk drive suspension according to claim 5, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
7. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent and having edge rails that are interrupted at a locus, bending of said spring portion being limited by said edge rails except at their interruption, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption, said base portion and said spring portion being separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
8. The disk drive suspension according to claim 7, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
9. The disk drive suspension according to claim 8, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
10. The disk drive suspension according to claim 9, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate edge rail extents extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
11. The disk drive suspension according to claim 10, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
12. The disk drive suspension according to claim 11, in which laterally opposed pairs of said left and right rail extents are substantially parallel.
13. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion being extended along said longitudinal axis a given extent and having edge rails that are interrupted at a locus, bending of said spring portion being limited by said edge rails except at their interruption, whereby the locus of said spring portion bending extends longitudinally less than said given extent and is defined by said locus of interruption said rigid portion and said spring portion being separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being proximate of said welding.
14. The disk drive suspension according to claim 13, in which said rigid portion has a proximate edge margin, and said spring portion has a distal edge margin, said proximate and distal edge margins being joined solely by welding.
15. The disk drive suspension according to claim 14, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
16. The disk drive suspension according to claim 15, in which said spring portion has a distal section adjacent said spring distal edge margin that is free of welding, said distal edge rail extents extending vertically from said distal section in distal section stiffening relation.
17. The disk drive suspension according to claim 16, in which said spring portion has a center section proximate of and contiguous with said distal section, the longitudinal extent of said distal section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion distal edge margin to said rigid portion proximate edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
18. The disk drive suspension according to claim 17, in which laterally opposed pairs of said left and right rail extents are substantially parallel.
19. The disk drive suspension according to claim 17, in which said base portion and said spring portion are separately formed and joined together solely by welding, said spring portion edge rails having distal and proximate extents on opposite sides of said locus of interruption, said distal and proximate extents being distal of said welding.
20. The disk drive suspension according to claim 19, in which said base portion has a distal edge margin, and said spring portion has a proximate edge margin, said distal and proximate edge margins being joined solely by welding.
21. The disk drive suspension according to claim 20, in which said edge rail extents include a pair of left and right hand proximate edge rail extents and a pair of left and right hand distal edge rail extents, said pairs being laterally opposed, the distal and proximate edge rail extents being longitudinally spaced across said locus of interruption.
22. The disk drive suspension according to claim 21, in which said spring portion has a proximate section adjacent said proximate edge margin that is free of welding, said proximate edge rail extents extending vertically from said proximate section in proximate section stiffening relation.
23. The disk drive suspension according to claim 22, in which said spring portion has a center section distal of and contiguous with said proximate section, the longitudinal extent of said proximate section being such that the heat of welding said spring portion proximate edge margin to said base portion distal edge margin does not substantially reduce the temper hardness of said center section.
24. A disk drive suspension having along a longitudinal axis a base portion, a rigid portion and a bendable spring portion, said spring portion having locally stiffened left and right edges extending from said base portion to said rigid portion but interrupted at a locus intermediate said base portion and said rigid portion, whereby bending of said spring portion is limited to said locus.
25. A disk drive suspension comprising a load beam having a base portion, a spring portion and a beam portion, said spring portion being normally bendable over a given axial extent between proximate and distal edge margins, said spring portion being locally stiffened by stiffening structure extending from said proximate and distal edge margins and having an interruption between said proximate and distal edge margins, whereby said spring portion is bendable only at said interruption.
26. The disk drive suspension according to claim 25, in which said stiffening structure interruption is intermediate the spring portion distal and proximate edge margins.
27. The disk drive suspension according to claim 26, in which said spring portion stiffening structure comprises interrupted right and left hand rails providing said local stiffening.
28. A disk drive suspension comprising a base portion, a beam portion and a spring portion therebetween, said spring portion having a proximate edge margin welded to said base portion, and a distal edge margin welded to said beam portion, and a center region between said proximate and distal edge margins, said center region having a proximate section contiguous with said proximate edge margin and subject to loss of temper hardness during welding of said proximate edge margin to said base portion, a distal section contiguous with said distal edge margin and subject to loss of temper hardness during welding of said distal edge margin to said rigid portion, and a center section between said proximate and distal sections that is sufficiently distant from said proximate and distal edge margins to not be subject to loss of temper hardness from welding at said edge margins, said spring portion normally being bendable throughout its said center region, said spring portion center region being locally stiffened in its proximate and distal sections to limit spring portion bending to said center section, whereby said spring portion bending is localized in said center section and unaffected by edge margin welding.
29. A method of limiting the bendable region of a disk drive suspension spring portion, including supporting said spring portion between a suspension base portion and a suspension rigid portion, stiffening said spring portion locally to limit the bendable region of said spring portion to the part of the spring portion free of local stiffening with a stiffening structure extending from said suspension base portion to said suspension rigid portion, and interrupting said stiffening structure to define said spring portion part free of local stiffening.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for accessing a network by a piece of user equipment, the method comprising:
sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a piece of user equipment (UE), wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; or sending, by a source side access device, a first notification message to a target side access device, wherein the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to the UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and
in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintaining, by the source side access device, a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein before sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a UE, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the source side access device, the access indication message sent by a centralized control node.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the source side access device, a first bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
sending, by the source side access device, a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device to the target side access device, wherein the bearer identifier of the bearer between the UE and the source side access device is used to instruct the target side access device to send a second bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to enter a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode.
8. A method for accessing a network by a piece of user equipment, the method comprising:
receiving, by a piece of user equipment (UE), an access indication message sent by a source side access device, wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device; or receiving, by a UE, access information that is sent by a target side access device and used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and
accessing, by the UE, the target side access device according to the access indication message or the access information, wherein in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, the UE maintains a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein before receiving, by the UE, an access indication message sent by a source side access device, the method further comprises:
detecting, by the UE, the target side access device; and
reporting, by the UE, a first discovery message to the source side access device, wherein the first discovery message is used to indicate the target side access device detected by the UE.
10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or instruct the UE to disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
12. The method according to claim 11, if a indication information comprised in the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device, after accessing, by the UE, the target side access device, the method further comprises:
disconnecting, by the UE, the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:
receiving, by the UE, a first bearer transfer message sent by the source side access device, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device; or receiving, by the UE, a second bearer transfer message sent by the target side access device, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to a bearer identifier to the target side access device.
14. An access device, comprising:
a transmitter, configured to:
send an access indication message to apiece of user equipment (UE), wherein the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device, or
send a first notification message to a target side access device, wherein the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to a UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and
a processor, configured to: in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintain a connection between the UE and the source side access device, wherein the connection comprises a control plane connection between the UE and the source side access device or a user plane connection between the UE and the source side access device.
15. The access device according to claim 14, further comprising:
a receiver, configured to: before the transmitter sends the access indication message to the UE, receive the access indication message sent by a centralized control node.
16. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message comprises: information used to indicate an access feature of the target side access device and information used to indicate a resource reserved by the target side access device for the UE.
17. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to maintain the connection between the UE and the source side access device, or disconnect the connection between the UE and the source side access device.
18. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the transmitter is further configured to:
send a first bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the first bearer transfer message carries a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device, and the bearer identifier is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
19. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the transmitter is further configured to:
send a bearer identifier of a bearer between the UE and the source side access device to the target side access device, wherein the bearer identifier of the bearer between the UE and the source side access device is used to instruct the target side access device to send a second bearer transfer message to the UE, wherein the second bearer transfer message is used to instruct the UE to transfer a bearer corresponding to the bearer identifier to the target side access device.
20. The access device according to claim 14, wherein the access indication message is further used to: after the UE accesses the target side access device, instruct the UE to enter a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode.