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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8174795 | Head slider, hard disk drive having the same, and method of controlling the height of the head slider A hard disk drive has a disk, a spindle motor for rotating the disk, a head stack assembly including a swing arm and a head slider disposed at a leading end of the swing arm, and a controller operatively connected to the head slider. The head slider is positioned by... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8102626 | Disk drive and head slider Embodiments of the present invention provide a head slider that suppresses accumulation of lubricant droplets on an air-bearing surface due to a backflow, and thus improves reliability of a disk drive. According to one embodiment, a lubricant droplet being adhered t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7969688 | Method and apparatus supporting a slider having multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket for a hard disk drive An air bearing surface, with multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket, between a leading air bearing surface and a central island for the read-write head. A gap separates left and right deflection rails. During the slider's normal operation, incoming ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7564650 | Head apparatus having a slider with first and second positive pressure parts and a negative pressure part and disc drive having the same A head apparatus includes a head that records information into and reproduces the information from a disc, a slider that supports the head, and flies above a surface of the disc when the disc rotates, the slider having a medium opposing surface that opposes to the d... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7417828 | Bi-level cavity for a slider air-bearing surface An information handling system, such as a disc drive, including a base, a disc stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. The actuator assembly also includes a load spring and a slider attached to said load spring. T... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7394623 | Air bearing slider for disk drive and suspension assembly including the air bearing slider An air bearing slider for a disk drive, which has a read/write head mounted thereon and is lifted from a surface of a disk due to a lifting force generated by the rotation of the disk, and a suspension assembly including the air bearing slider, the air bearing slide... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369365 | Head slider capable of being reliably released from effect of moving recording medium A medium-opposed surface of a slider body is hemisected into first and second areas by the centerline extending in the longitudinal direction of the slider body. The second area is designed to generate a positive pressure larger than that generated at the first area... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359155 | Slider, head assembly and disk apparatus Disclosed is a slider which is substantially rectangular and has a disc facing surface with an air inflow end and an air outflow end in the longitudinal direction, comprising a first positive pressure-generating section disposed near the air inflow end; a pair of se... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339766 | System and method for a subambient pressure air bearing slider utilizing negative pressure grooves A system and method are disclosed for a subambient pressure air bearing slider utilizing negative pressure grooves. In one embodiment, a groove extends from a slider's leading edge, splits, and terminates in two locations at the slider's trailing edge. In one embodi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333297 | Method and apparatus supporting a slider having multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket for a hard disk drive An air bearing surface, with multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket, between a leading air bearing surface and a central island for the read-write head. A gap separates left and right deflection rails. During the slider's normal operation, incoming ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7277253 | Storage device A storage device configured to load and unload a head against a storage medium, includes a latch mechanism configured to latch the unloaded head, a head moving mechanism configured to move the head, a measuring part configured to measure an unlatch force necessary f... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277255 | Head slider with positive dynamic pressure generating section A head slider is designed to prevent collision against a surface of a disk due to an external impact and the like while a device is in use to avoid damages on an air bearing surface (“ABS”) of the head slider and the surface the disk. This is achieved by a struc... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271973 | Flying height compensation for up/down bit error rate trend difference A disk drive that has a plurality of heads coupled to one or more disks. The heads have air bearing surfaces that compensate for a radial crown and a radial camber of an adjacent disk to maintain a flying height at a relatively constant level across the disk surface... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249520 | Self-loaded pendulum for slider flexure stiffness measurements A device is provided by which the stiffness coefficient of a flexure, in either a pitch or roll direction, can be measured while a slider is mounted thereon and while the flexure and slider are in a loaded condition as might be obtained during normal operational con... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251105 | Negative pressure type head slider and disk drive A disk drive including a negative pressure type head slider having a transducer for reading/writing data from/to a disk having a plurality of tracks, and an actuator for moving the head slider across the tracks of the disk. The actuator includes an actuator arm rota... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245457 | Magnetic disk drive using femto slider and having predetermined linear velocity and gram load configuration A magnetic disk drive includes a magnetic disk and a femto slider. The magnetic disk has a minimum track linear velocity of 1 to 5 m/s. In one embodiment, the magnetic disk drive includes a negative pressure type femto slider and adopts a load/unload method. A gram ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236328 | Method for producing a transducer slider with tapered edges The present invention relates to a method for producing a transducer slider. The method involves first coating a substrate with a radiation-sensitive layer and exposing the radiation-sensitive layer to radiation according to an intensity pattern. Preferably, the int... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230797 | Slider having transversely separated bearing surfaces and openings to rear bearing surfaces A disk drive for storing data includes a rotating storage disk and a slider positioned near the storage disk. The slider has a flying side and a read/write head. The flying side has (i) a leading edge, (ii) a trailing edge that is opposite the leading edge, (iii) fi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7209323 | Slider having cavity floor with differing depths A disc head slider having a slider body that includes a bearing surface, a cavity dam and a sub-ambient pressure cavity is provided. The sub-ambient pressure cavity has a cavity floor, a plurality of sides and a depth that progressively varies between a point on one... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7196873 | Disk device and slider A disk device rotates a disk-like storage medium, and accesses the storage medium, and a slider floats over a storage medium by the action of an airflow caused by rotation of the storage medium and can float stably despite of an environmental change. An inner rail f... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184244 | Method for flying a disk drive slider having a high pressure micropad ABS A slider for a disk drive is disclosed. In one embodiment, the slider includes an air bearing pad that contains a read/write transducer. This particular air bearing pad is small. High pressures are exerted on this small air bearing pad while the slider is flying in ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7154709 | Slider with recessed pressurization surfaces One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a slider that includes an aerodynamic surface which includes a first bearing surface, a cavity floor, and a first recessed pressurization surface. The first bearing surface is disposed on the aerodynamic surface, d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149056 | Negative pressure type head slider and disk drive A disk drive including a negative pressure type head slider having a transducer for reading/writing data from/to a disk having a plurality of tracks, and an actuator for moving the head slider across the tracks of the disk. The actuator includes an actuator arm rota... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7095592 | Head slider and disk drive apparatus Disclosed is a head slider having excellent shock resistance, a head supporter, as well as a disk drive using the head slider. The head slider is characterized in a form of its opposite-to-disk surface, such that a fixed point is set at a position located outwardly ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085103 | Magnetic head slider with side pads which each have a width W and a length L, wherein W>L A magnetic head slider, for sliding on a magnetic disk, which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge, and a rail surface made from the front step bearing. A negative press... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072145 | Flying head slider with air bearing step face arrangement A flying head slider includes a first air bearing having plural step-faces and being prepared on a base surface at air inflow side, and a second air bearing being prepared on the base surface at air outflow side. The upper most surface of the second air bearing is l... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057855 | Head slider with flotation improving section and disk drive apparatus using the same A head slider has, on its front face opposing a disk, a positive pressure generating section and a negative pressure generating recess, and a sloped face slopping toward the air outlet side. By virtue of the sloped face, the negative pressure hindering with high-spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054085 | Use of shunt resistor with large RA product tunnel barriers A read head for use with an interconnect transmission line having a characteristic impedance of Z0 includes a tunnel valve device and a shunt resistor RS that is connected in parallel across the tunnel valve device. The tunnel valve device has a device re... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7019945 | Air bearing slider including pressurized side pads with forward and trailing shallow etched surfaces An aspect of the invention can be regarded an air bearing slider for use in a disk drive including a rotatable magnetic disk. The slider includes a leading side and a trailing side. The slider further includes opposing lateral sides extending between the leading and... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012785 | Method and apparatus for head slider and suspension reducing air flow turbulence about the slider when accessing a rotating disk in a disk drive The invention includes head gimbal assemblies, actuators, and disk drives containing at least one airfoil boundary reducing air flow turbulence about a slider induced by said head gimbal assembly accessing a rotating disk surface. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999282 | Slider with cavity dam angled leading edge and further displaced recessed surface positioned outside angled rails A disc head slider is provided and includes a slider body having a disc-facing surface which includes a bearing surface that is generally disposed within a bearing surface plane. An angled inside rail, an angled outside rail and a cavity dam are formed on the disc-f... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6985333 | Load/unload-type disk drive slider having a negative pressure reduction hole The present invention generally relates to a disk drive and methods for operating the same. A venting assembly of this disk drive generally includes a slider having an air bearing surface system for generating positive pressure to urge the slider away from a data st... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980399 | Air bearing sliders with a pressure cavity or cavities A slider for a data storage device is disclosed. The slider includes a bearing pad or surface having a raised bearing surface, a stepped bearing surface and a recessed pressure cavity or cavities. The recessed pressure cavity or cavities provides a reduced raised be... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6956719 | Self-correcting disc head slider A disc head slider supports a transducer relative to a moving media in a data storage system. The slider includes a slider body having a media opposing face with a leading slider edge, a trailing slider edge, a recessed area and a bearing surface formed by at least ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6934124 | Rotating recording medium and slider of thin-film magnetic head device A slider includes a slider main body and a thin-film magnetic head element. The slider main body has an air bearing surface, an air inflow end, and an air outflow end. The air bearing surface has a first part closer to the air outflow end, a second part closer to th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6934122 | Disc head slider with sub-ambient pressure cavity bottom surfaces of differing depths A disc head slider having a slider body that includes a bearing surface, a cavity dam and a sub-ambient pressure cavity is provided. The sub-ambient pressure cavity has a cavity floor, a plurality of sides and a depth that progressively varies between a point on one... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927942 | Magnetic head slider and magnetic head slider assembly having a leading slope angle smaller than a trailing slope angle A head slider has small friction force even if the head slider comes in contact with a magnetic disk having a smooth surface at high speed. The vibration is also low and wear resistance is high. The head slider is provided with plural air bearing surfaces for floati... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6785095 | Magnetic disc apparatus with slider having specified location of action point of equivalent load A magnetic disc apparatus includes a magnetic disc, a slider incorporating lifting rails or lifting pads, a magnetic head provided to a lifting rail or a lifting pad on the outflow end side, a suspension supporting the slider, and a carriage attached to the suspensi... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6771468 | Slider with high pitch-stiffness air bearing design A slider utilizes a triple-etch, high pitch-stiffness side rail ABS design. The slider is characterized by a relatively deep shallow recession at its leading edge, which maximizes the cavity area while at the same time increases the pitch angle to achieve DLC pad cl... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6683754 | Hard disk drive head-media system having reduced stiction and low fly height A head and disk system for use in a disk drive that includes a slider having a surface that contacts the disk. This disk contacting surface of the slider is textured with pads, bumps, an etched surface or an otherwise roughened surface. The contact area o... | 01/27/2004 |
