Flying head with solid immersion lens partially mounted on a slider
Patent 5881042 Issued on March 9, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: September 10, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
369/99, SPECIFIC DETAIL OF INFORMATION HANDLING PORTION OF SYSTEM369/44.14, Optical head servo system structure369/44.23, Structure for shaping beam or causing astigmatic condition369/112.24, Plural distinct lenses369/119With movement of optical beam (e.g., galvanometer)
A head for a disk drive for reading data from and/or writing data to an optical recording medium, having a slider with a channel surface and an air-bearing surface, an optical clear path through the slider, a solid immersion lens mounted at least partially within the slider, and an objective lens mounted to the slider, such that the distances between the air-bearing surface, the objective, and the solid immersion lens are substantially constant.
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September 10, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
