US Patent 7813084 Co-planar shielded write traces for disk drive head suspensions

An integrated lead head suspension flexure including a spring metal base layer, an insulating layer on the base layer and traces on the insulating layer. The traces include first and second adjacent and co-planar write traces and first and second shield traces. The shielding traces are on opposite sides of the write traces, electrically interconnected and generally co-planar with the write traces. Portions of the stainless steel layer below the traces include windows. The shield traces can be connected to ground and/or to the spring metal base layer.