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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397635 | Head slider for disk apparatus A head slider, of a disk apparatus, flying over a rotary magnetic recording disk, having a characteristic less dependent on the atmospheric pressure. The head slider of a disk apparatus comprises: a magnetic element adapted to fly over a magnetic recording medium; a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7355814 | Disk texture located in load/unload zone of disk for cleaning contamination and disk lubricant from head ABS surface The present invention is directed to a load/unload disk drive that includes: a rotational arm engaging a slider; a magnetic storage disk, wherein the magnetic head in the slider reads data from and/or writes data t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352532 | Method and apparatus for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive An apparatus and method for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A slider having a read/write head element on a trailing edge (TE) portion is also... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352524 | Magnetic disk drive A magnetic disk drive comprises a recording medium, a slider, and an alignment device for aligning the slider with respect to the medium. No film made of liquid lubricant is disposed on the surface of the medium. The slider incorporates: a slider main body including... | 04/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7314404 | Burnishing head A burnishing head comprises at least two rails, each rail having an inner wall and an outer wall. The outer walls are at an angle relative to one another and relative to a central axis of the burnishing head. This angle permits the burnishing head to exhibit improve... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7290325 | Methods of manufacturing magnetic heads with reference and monitoring devices According to one aspect, an exemplary method for manufacturing a magnetic head includes forming a plurality of magnetoresistive devices, a reference device, and a monitoring device, where the reference device includes a desired stripe height less than the magnetores... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289299 | Air bearing slider with three-projection trailing center pad A novel air bearing can be used in a magnetic hard disk drive or other information storage device. The novel air bearing includes a central cavity having a bottom surface, a leading pad adjacent to the central cavity, a trailing center pad having a top surface, and ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283329 | 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... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278902 | Enabling location specific burnishing of a disk Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to enabling location specific burnishing of a disk. According to one embodiment, the smoothness of a disk is evaluated by gliding over a disk to determine if there is an asperity on the disk. If there is an asperi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7254885 | Wafer-level fabrication method for top or side slider bond pads A method is used for fabricating sliders for use in a disc drive actuation system, the sliders having bonds pads formed on either a top surface or side faces of the slider. The method comprises providing a substrate having a top surface. Trenches are formed in the s... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255636 | Hybrid burnishing head design for improved burnishing of disk media A hybrid burnishing head for processing of surfaces of hard disk media comprises a solid body including a first major surface and a second, opposed major surface comprising a burnishing surface including first and second surface portions, wherein the first surface p... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7193805 | Flying-type disk drive slider with micropad A slider (2′) with a reduced fly height is disclosed. The slider includes a small micropad (66) on the lower surface (22′) of the slider (2′). A sensor region (62) of a head (61) that is carried by the slider (2... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168154 | Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal section. The lead wiring pad and bonding pad are soldered by melting the so... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165317 | Electrode extension sheet for use in a lapping apparatus The present invention is an object to provide an apparatus or a method making it possible to easily effect connection between additional electrodes, etc. and lead electrodes when performing a processing for achieving a predetermined throat height value or crown proc... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167343 | 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... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164557 | Apparatus for burnishing small asperities and cleaning loose particles from magnetic recording media An air bearing burnish slider burnishes very small asperities and cleans the loose particles that adhere to the magnetic recording media. The slider applies a controllable contact force to effectively burnish disk asperities or partially attached particles. In addit... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7137188 | Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal section. The lead wiring pad and bonding pad are soldered by melting the so... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137189 | Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal section. The lead wiring pad and bonding pad are soldered by melting the so... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130154 | Magnetic head slider having protrusions provided on the medium-facing surface and manufacturing method therefor The present invention provides a magnetic head slider including rails formed on the medium-facing surface on the magnetic disk side for generating buoyant force so that the slider flies and moves above a magnetic disk to write or read magnetic information. In the ma... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7106556 | Slider configured for rapid bearing stabilization during ramp load operations A slider includes a longitudinal axis, a recessed region, a bearing surface, first and second elongated rails, and first and second elongated depressions. The first and second elongated rails extend generally parallel to the longitudinal axis and are disposed about ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096567 | Method for measuring amount of grinding in magnetic head producing process The present invention is an object to provide an apparatus or a method making it possible to easily effect connection between additional electrodes, etc. and lead electrodes when performing a processing for achieving a predetermined throat height value or crown proc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7061722 | Magnetic head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk unit A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk attached to a spindle so as to be rotatable, a slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing data onto/from the magnetic disk, a suspension for providing the slider with a predetermined load, and an actuator arm for ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7016150 | Method and apparatus for cleaning head with over-damped harmonic oscillation An apparatus has an information storage medium with an information storage surface, and structure operable to effect relative movement of the head and surface within a first zone while maintaining the head adjacent the surface and while using the head to effect at l... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009813 | Apparatus and method of configuring the air bearing surfaces of sliders in disk drives for producing high temperatures in thermally-assisted recordings A hard disk drive slider has an air bearing surface that uses the ambient air in the disk drive as a heat source for thermal-assisted recording. Incoming air between the slider and the disk surface is pressurized to produce heat sufficient to heat the recording medi... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6993826 | Method of manufacturing a probe array An optical-pickup slider is characterized in that a light-transmitting-property substrate is bonded to a surface of a layer having a tapered through hole, on which surface a larger opening of the tapered through hole exists. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the la... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6989965 | Head slider having tilted protrusions for ramp load-unload applications A slider includes a slider body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first side edge, a second side edge and a center line extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, which define a disc-facing surface having a bearing plane. A protrusion is posit... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6975487 | Magnetic head having pads provided on the medium-facing surface for minimizing influences of air changes and magnetic recording apparatus provided with the same In a magnetic head, a center pad provided with a magnetic core is formed at the center of an edge at a trailing side of the recording medium opposing surface of a slider body. Two side pads are formed at both ends in the direction of the width at positions closer to... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965498 | Air-bearing sliders having leading read/write head and flying with negative pitch The present invention is directed towards air-bearing sliders that are used in disk drives. The invention involves pitching a slider so that the leading portion of the slider is closer to the disk than the trailing portion of the slider. The negative pitch reduces t... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6958888 | Slider of thin-film magnetic head and method of manufacturing same A slider comprises a substrate, a thin-film magnetic head element, an insulating portion, and a medium facing layer. The substrate has a first surface facing toward a recording medium and a second surface meeting this first surface. The first surface is located fart... | 10/25/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6916227 | Method and apparatus for processing sliders for use in disk drives and the like A system and method are described for processing a slider (e.g., one to be used in a disk drive apparatus). Corners of the sliders are abraded while still a part of a row of sliders in a part-off operation. By abrading the corners of the sliders, head slap events be... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6882504 | Micro textured slider with predicted tipped position A slider for a data head including a dynamically imbalanced slider landing integrated pad interface (SLIP interface) forming a predicted tipped interface. For contact starts and stops the SLIP interface supports the slider so that the slider tips toward the predicte... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6871392 | Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal section. The lead wiring pad and bonding pad are soldered by melting the so... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6801399 | Disk device magnetic head slider including a contact pad, a positive pressure pad area, and a squeeze pad area A magnetic head slider for eliminating the fluctuations of contact forces between a magnetic head and a recording disk due to changes in atmospheric pressure or shocks includes a plurality of fluid force generating faces positioned at a plurality of different height... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6751063 | Air-bearing sliders having leading read/write head and flying with negative pitch The present invention is directed towards air-bearing sliders that are used in disk drives. The invention involves pitching a slider so that the leading portion of the slider is closer to the disk than the trailing portion of the slider. The negative pitch reduces t... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6710976 | Disk head slider having air bearing pressure relief features A disc head slider includes a slider body having a disc-facing surface, a recessed area positioned on the disc-facing surface, and a raised rail positioned on the disc-facing surface adjacent the recessed area. The raised rail includes a bearing surface and a recess... | 03/23/2004 |
