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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...
7146710 Two stage lubrication process for disk drive  
A method for creating a hard drive includes installing a slider in a disk drive having at least one disk lubricated with a first stage lubricant. The slider is designed to be in contact with the...
7114239 Method for manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head wafer  
A thin-film magnetic head wafer includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface which are substantially parallel to each other. An electrical/magnetic transducer is provided on...
7111386 Lead plating method for GMR head manufacture  
A major problem in Lead Overlay design for GMR structures is that the magnetic read track width is wider than the physical read track width. This is due to high interfacial resistance between the...
6985324 Counteracting gas ingestion in a hydrodynamic bearing spindle motor  
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of counteracting gas ingestion in a hydrodynamic bearing of a spindle motor in a data storage device comprises waiting for activity of...
6973712 Lead plating method for GMR head manufacture  
A major problem in Lead Overlay design for GMR structures is that the magnetic read track width is wider than the physical read track width. This is due to high interfacial resistance between the...
6917495 Magnetic disk drive  
A magnetic disk drive having a magnetic disk, a spindle motor for rotating the magnetic disk, a magnetic head slider for recording or reproducing data onto or from the magnetic disk and a housing....
6912772 Method for shaping pole pieces of magnetic heads by chemical mechanical polishing  
A process for forming the P 2 pole tip/yoke interface of a magnetic head that includes a second CMP polishing step that is performed on the surface of the write head wafer subsequent to the...
6829818 Manufacturing method of a head gimbal assembly  
A magnetic head slider with at least one thin-film magnetic head element on a suspension is mounted. This mounting includes electrically connecting the magnetic head slider with the suspension with...
6665147 Magnetic disk drive with supply of perfluoropolyether as lubricant  
A magnetic disk drive having a small decrease in lubricant film thickness on the surface of the magnetic disk and a superior sliding reliability between the magnetic head and the magnetic disk...
6373658 Optimum location for slider landing pads  
A disk drive system or information handling system includes a base, a disk stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. An actuator assembly is...
6212042 Slider having air bearing surface which includes pads for disk storage system  
A disc storage system includes a rotating disc and a transducer. The transducer is carried on a slider which is supported by an armature. The armature is used to move the slider radially across the...
6122143 Wet rigid disk drive assembly with a conical spindle bearing  
The invention concerns a disk drive assembly in which one or more rotating rigid disks are enclosed in a "wet" operating environment in which a liquid lubricant is circulated from the surface of...
6118617 Magnetic disk drive  
A magnetic disk drive using a magnetic disk covered with a film of liquid lubricant for obviating wear ascribable to the friction and contact of the magnetic disk with a magnetic head is disclosed....
5889635 Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk apparatus for redistributing a lubricant  
A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic recording/reproducing element, a contact pad, and a groove. The magnetic recording/reproducing element moves relative to a magnetic disk medium while...
5850317 Apparatus and method for near contact magnetic recording  
A rotating magnetic storage device is shown wherein the transducer and media are separated during operation by a thin film of low viscosity liquid lubricant that is recirculated from a reservoir...
5835305 Magnetic disk apparatus employing liquid bearing type or physical contact type magnetic head slider  
A magnetic storage apparatus includes a substantially non-flexible magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head slider having a reading/writing element mounted therein and liquid lubricant provided...
5825591 Frictionally sliding head magnet disk apparatus  
The present invention relates to a magnetic disk unit of a high memory capacity wherein a magnetic head and a magnetic disk with a lubricant layer formed on the surface thereof are allowed to...
5801903 Contact recording slider for use in a lubricant containing information storage system  
The invention relates an improved slider with a controlled textured surface for information storage systems that use an incompressible fluid. Most preferably, the slider is a contact recording...
5742449 Near contact magnetic recording using a liquid lubricant bearing to separate media and transducer  
A rotating magnetic storage device is shown wherein the transducer and media are separated during operation by a thin film of low viscosity liquid lubricant that is recirculated from a reservoir...
5661618 Magnetic recording device having a improved slider  
The invention relates to an improved high performance magnetic recording device. The recording device comprises a magnetic recording disk, a slider having a transducer for reading or writing data...
5659447 Magnetic slider design for precision wear-in  
Method, with structure, of production of precision head/disk interfaces for near contact recording in a low viscosity liquid lubricant film. Triangular shaped bearing pads in an assembled hard...
5612838 Oxidation-stabilized hydrocarbon liquid bearings for lubricated disk drives  
In liquid disk drives, liquid bearing materials based on hydrocarbon liquids, halogenated liquids and mixtures thereof are used at the head-disk interface. Additives such as antioxidants and...
5541789 Magnetic recording apparatus with magnetic head on slider having applied load larger than buoyant force acting on slider so that gap between magnetic head and magnetic disk is smaller than total thickness of protective layer and lubricating layer on disk  
A magnetic recording device includes a magnetic disk for storing information, a magnetic head for writing and reading information relative to the magnetic disk, a device for rotating the magnetic...
5526204 Low drag liquid bearing recording head  
A read/write head for an information recording apparatus having a liquid bearing lubricant between a rotating storage medium and the read/write head is disclosed. The head is provided an actuator...
5499149 Slider with transverse ridge sections supporting air-bearing pads and disk drive incorporating the slider  
A data recording disk drive has an improved head-disk interface provided by a transducer carrier which is essentially a low-flying air-bearing slider that is also able to be in contact and near...
5285337 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having support struts  
A data recording disk file of the liquid-bearing type has an improved head-disk interface provided by a transducer carrier with new properties. The carrier supports a conventional head for reading...
5267104 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having rear ski pad at the head-disk interface  
A data recording disk file of the liquid-bearing type has an improved head-disk interface provided in by a transducer carrier with new properties. The carrier supports a conventional head for...
5202803 Disk file with liquid film head-disk interface  
A disk file with substantially reduced head-disk spacing and corresponding improvement in recording performance uses a disk coated with a film of conventional high viscosity lubricant, a lubricant...
5200867 Transducer carrier for disk file with liquid film head-disk interface  
A disk file with substantially reduced head-disk spacing and corresponding improvement in recording performance uses a disk coated with a film of conventional high viscosity lubricant, a lubricant...
5193046 Information recording apparatus with a liquid bearing  
An information storage apparatus is disclosed for reading and/or writing information on a rigid storage medium which includes a liquid bearing interface between the transducer and medium instead of...
5097368 Information recording apparatus with a non-Newtonian liquid bearing  
An information storage apparatus is disclosed for reading and/or writing information on a rigid disk, which includes a non-Newtonian liquid bearing interface between a transducer and a storage...
4633351 Method and apparatus for hydrodynamic magnetic recording  
Problems of wear and bounce created by imperfections in the surface of a magnetic recording medium, such as a chromium dioxide-coated drum, are circumvented by a hydrodynamic magnetographic imaging...
4626941 Method and apparatus for suppressing the evaporation of lubricant film coated on magnetic disks of a disk storage  
A magnetic disk storage apparatus includes an air-tight enclosure containing a drive mechanism for rotating magnetic disks coated with a lubricant material and a flying head assembly. A lubricant...
3579212 A REPRODUCING HEAD IN A LIQUID MEDIUM  
High density storage magnetic recording systems are described in which the reproducing transducers must be positioned in accurately maintained close proximity to the surface of the recording...
2969435 Oil film spacer for magnetic recording device  
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