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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009389 | Air bearing with low crown sensitivity through side channels An air bearing surface of a slider, which achieves low crown sensitivity is described. In one embodiment, the air bearing surface comprises a center channel and a plurality of side channels, wherein at least one side channel of the plurality of side channels is open... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7330338 | Method for adjusting pitch and roll in a head suspension Apparatus and method for adjusting at least one of a pitch and roll parameter of a gimbal for a head suspension assembly having a pair of members contacting at least one gimbal arm at spaced apart locations and having an additional member contacting the gimbal arm i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7317596 | Magnetic recording disk drive having read head with high cross-track resolution and disk with low bit-aspect-ratio A continuous-media or patterned-media disk drive with a low ratio of linear bit density in bits per inch (BPI) in the along-the-track direction to track density in tracks per inch (TPI) in the cross-track direction has a magnetoresistive read head with high cross-tr... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7190550 | Air bearing slider having a bearing profile contoured for pressurization proximate to nodal regions of a slider-disc interface An air bearing slider which includes a raised bearing surface or surfaces contoured to limit off nodal pressurization. The air bearing surfaces are located proximate to nodal regions of a height field or profile between the slider and disc surface to limit off-nodal... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7133258 | Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded A flying head slider includes a slider body. The upstream or leading end of a bottom surface on the slider body is defined along a first datum line extending in the lateral direction of the slider body. The first datum line may be set perpendicular to the longitudin... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7078334 | In situ hard mask approach for self-aligned contact etch According to one embodiment, a method (100) may include forming a first insulating layer over a semiconductor substrate (step 102), forming a hard mask layer (step 104), and forming a photoresist etch mask having a thickness of less than about 4... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7027265 | Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded having an air clogging dished space A flying head slider includes a slider body. The upstream or leading end of a bottom surface on the slider body is defined along a first datum line extending in the lateral direction of the slider body. The first datum line may be set perpendicular to the longitudin... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6999283 | Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded A flying head slider includes a slider body. The upstream or leading end of a bottom surface on the slider body is defined along a first datum line extending in the lateral direction of the slider body. The first datum line may be set perpendicular to the longitudin... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995952 | Head shock resistance and head load/unload protection for reducing disk errors and defects, and enhancing data integrity of disk drives A slider in a disk drive is shock-protected with an overcoat layer of either metal or polymer directly on the areas of the slider that are prone to contact the disk when the slider is loaded off the platform, or when the slider is shocked while in operation over the... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6937439 | Slider having a textured air bearing surface, head stack assembly and disk drive using same A disk drive includes a disk having a recording surface and a head stack assembly. The head stack assembly includes a body portion that includes a bore defining a pivot axis, an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion and a head gimbal assembly supported at ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920019 | Device and method for improved stiction reliability in disk drives employing padded sliders A disk drive (10) including one or more storage disks (12) and a head stack assembly (14) is provided herein. The head stack assembly (14) includes an actuator assembly (16) and a plurality of transducer assemblies (18). The... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6754043 | Head slider The head slider mounts a recording/reproducing element and flies over a recording medium with the airflow generated when the recording medium moves. The head slider comprises a slider body having an air inflow end and an air outflow end, a rail projected from the sl... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6687088 | Disc drive head slider with recessed landing pads A slider body configuration, or slider, for carrying a data transducer in cooperative relationship with a rotating data storage disc. The slider includes a plurality of landing pads which serve to minimize the contact area between the slider and the discs... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6490134 | Patterned and directional selective roughening of a slider air-bearing surface An information handling system, such as a disk drive, includes a base, a disk 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... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6483668 | Edge contact protection feature for a disc drive head A slider for supporting transducer elements in a disc drive. The slider including an edge protection feature for contact interface protection for head disc interface.... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6405426 | Method of manufacturing a stepped magnetic head slider A first step portion is formed at a portion at which on an outer end portion of a facing surface of a surface of the slider meets the side panel of the slider. Furthermore, a second step portion is formed at the portion at which the outer end portion of t... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6198601 | Thin film magnetic head having non-linear tapered rails A magnetic head element has one or more rails formed on the surface thereof. Each rail is formed so as to have a tapered angle of 55-85°. To form such a rail, ion milling is conducted; the rail substrate used is allowed to have an inclination angle to 15... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6144529 | Slider with negative and positive pressure generating portions and head including the same The present invention is directed to a slider, a head, a head device and a read/write apparatus that are extremely effective for achieving high density writing and an increase in the storage capacity. The slider comprises a front flat surface, a first positive... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6040959 | Slider with blunt edges A slider has a rail with a medium facing surface. At least part of a lateral wall of the rail is located closer to a center of the slider than a lateral wall of the slider. First edges between the medium facing surface of each of the rails and the lateral... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5910864 | Thin film magnetic head having non-linear rails A magnetic head element has one or more rails formed on the surface thereof. Each rail is formed so as to have a tapered angle of 55-85°. To form such a rail, ion milling is conducted; the rail substrate used is allowed to have an inclination angle to 15... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5488527 | Magnetic head including a magnetic recording medium slide surface with predetermined dimensions A magnetic head for stretch surface recording SSR includes a floating head slider having a facing surface formed as a part of a spherical surface, wherein a radius R of said spherical surface is given by 80 mmࣘRࣘ100 mm, the facing surface as viewed fr... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5019930 | Negative-pressure type magnetic head slider, and method of producing the same A magnetic head slider having an operating surface on which are formed a pair of air-bearing portions extending in a direction of flow of an air stream into a flying height between the head slider and a recording medium, a cross rail extending between the... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4896233 | Head supporting mechanism for a magnetic disk apparatus in which a head slider is inclined with respect to a gimbal spring A head slider supporting mechanism for supporting a head slider to float on a surface of a magnetic disk when the magnetic disk is rotating. The head slider supporting mechanism includes a rigid arm block and a suspension element secured to the rigid arm ... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4769727 | Self-loading magnetic head slider An improved self-loading magnetic head slider for recording and reading data on a magnetic storage disk, is characterized by the addition of aerodynamically designed wings used for lowering the slider close to the surface of the disk to a designed head-to... | 09/06/1988 |
