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7398590 Applying mechanical shock to a data storage device with an enclosed low-density gas  
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing low-density gas-filled disk drives involving test equipment utilized to determine gas leaks occurring in disk drives subjected to shock...
7392577 Method for manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic head  
A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic head is disclosed, including perpendicular magnetic recording head includes forming a primary magnetic pole having a flat top surface, where a...
7386935 Methods and apparatus for controlling the lapping of a slider based on an amplitude of a readback signal produced from an externally applied magnetic field  
The lapping of a slider is controlled based on an amplitude of a readback signal which is produced from an externally applied magnetic field. A lapping plate is used to lap a slider which includes...
7380331 Methods for forming a reed sensor  
A method comprises depositing first and second lead layers in end regions which surround a central region; and forming a read sensor in the central region such that a first edge of the read sensor...
7380330 Method for making magnetic write head  
After defining the P2 pole of a magnetic read head, alumina is deposited over it and planarized by CMP, with the portion of the alumina overlaying the ABS region of the P2 pole subsequently being...
7377026 Method of making current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element  
A magnetoresistive film is formed on the surface of a lower electrode layer in a method of making a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element. The magnetoresistive film...
7377025 Method of forming an improved AP1 layer for a TMR device  
A TMR read head with improved voltage breakdown is formed by laying down the AP1 layer as two or more layers. Each AP1 sub-layer is exposed to a low energy plasma for a short time before the next...
7367112 Method of fabricating a head for perpendicular magnetic recording with a self-aligning side shield structure  
A method is provided for fabricating a head for perpendicular recording with self-aligning side shields. The voids where the side shields will be formed are milled into the layer of material for...
7367110 Method of fabricating a read head having shaped read sensor-biasing layer junctions using partial milling  
A method for fabricating a read head for a magnetic disk drive having a read head sensor and a hard bias layer, where the read head has a shaped junction between the read head sensor and the hard...
7362544 Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head  
A thermal flying height adjustment slider capable of being mounted on a small-sized thin film magnetic head slider is provided wherein terminals of an energizer serving as a heater prevent...
7360298 Method of manufacturing a magnetic bias pinning layer for a GMR sensor of a magnetic head  
A method for fabricating a magnetic head, including depositing a plurality of sensor layers, including a pinned magnetic layer, a spacer layer, a free magnetic layer, a bias spacer layer, and a...
7360296 Method for reducing damage to sliders during lapping  
A process is described for fabricating sliders with reduced lapping damage to the hard-bias materials. The stack of layers for the magnetic sensor is deposited on a wafer and patterned into an...
7343665 Method of making current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive head  
The lower electrode is at least exposed at the surface of a substructure layer in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element. A resist is formed to extend over the...
7343664 Method of manufacturing a magnetic head with flux shaping layer  
A method for fabricating a magnetic head includes forming a first pole and a flux shaping layer in spaced relation to the first pole. A nonmagnetic layer is formed adjacent the flux shaping layer...
7337530 Method for manufacturing a shielded pole magnetic head for perpendicular recording  
A method of making a perpendicular magnetic recording head for use in a data storage device includes forming a first pole layer, a second pole layer, a third pole layer, and a shield layer of a...
7333306 Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor with tri-layer free layer  
A TMR sensor, a CPP GMR sensor and a CCP CPP GMR sensor all include a tri-layered free layer that is of the form CoFe/CoFeB/NiFe, where the atom percentage of Fe can vary between 5% and 90% and the...
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...
7320170 Xenon ion beam to improve track width definition  
Using a beam of xenon ions together with a suitable mask, a GMR stack is ion milled until a part of it, no more than about 0.1 microns thick, has been removed so that a pedestal, having sidewalls...
7313856 Method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive sensor with a thin antiferromagnetic layer for pinning antiparallel coupled tabs  
A manufacturing method for a spin valve sensor with a thin antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer exchange coupled to a self-pinned antiparallel coupled bias layer in the lead overlap regions is provided....
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