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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...
7336443 Slider for a data storage device with a floating transducer body and method of fabrication therefor  
A head for a data storage device including an independently supported transducer body floatably coupled to the slider body and including at least one transducer element. The transducer body is...
7301647 Method for regulating shape of floatation surface of slider floating above record carrier  
A method for manufacturing a slider including a head for recording data into and reproducing data from a record carrier, and a floatation surface that floats above the record carrier includes the...
7281317 Manufacturing method of flying magnetic head slider  
A manufacturing method of a flying magnetic head slider includes a step of providing a substrate with a plurality of inductive write head elements formed thereon, each head element having a pair of...
7209324 Sliders bonded by a debondable encapsulant containing styrene and butadiene polymers  
The invention relates generally to the bonding of one or more sliders in styrene and butadiene polymers. More particularly, the invention relates to planarized slider assemblies formed by using...
7206169 Sacrificial anode in a kerf for corrosion protection during slider fabrication  
A slider fabrication assembly and method for making the same are provided. A slider is formed on a substrate. A corrodible component of the slider is exposed to an environment in contact with the...
7200918 Method for forming an air bearing surface on a slider  
Embodiments include a slider having a silicon body and at least one carbide pad structure embedded therein. At least one head structure for reading and/or writing data is located on the silicon...
7196872 Sliders bonded by a debondable encapsulant comprising different polymers formed via in situ polymerization  
A slider assembly is provided comprising a plurality of sliders bonded by a debondable solid encapsulant comprised of different first and second polymers The solid encapsulant is comprised of a...
7187523 Method of marking sintered body and method for manufacturing magnetic head wafer  
A method of marking a sintered body includes the step of preparing the sintered body by sintering a mixture of first and second types of powder particles. The first type of powder particles is made...
7177118 Magnetic recording system with three-layer laminated media having improved signal-to-noise ratio  
A magnetic recording system uses a magnetic recording medium having a laminated magnetic structure with at least three magnetic layers, wherein the magnetic layers have decreasing intrinsic...
7133257 Control of twist, crown and camber for sliders using location sensitive scribing  
Embodiments include a method for adjusting the twist, crown and camber of an air bearing surface a slider to substantially match final target values for twist, crown and camber, the slider having a...
7125467 Slider processing system utilizing polyvinyl alcohol release layer  
A process for fabricating sliders where the sliders are held in place during processing by a solid matrix material is described. A thin coating of a release-layer material is applied on the sliders...
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...
7064925 Magnetic head for reducing projection of retrieving and writing unit from float surface, and magnetic recording/retrieving apparatus using the same  
A magnetic head comprises a retrieving unit for converting magnetic information output from a recording medium into an electric signal, a writing unit having the function of electromagnetic...
6928722 Magnetic disc apparatus and magnetic head in which a recording/reproduction element is mounted on a slider via a piezoelectric element  
A recording/reproduction element is mounted on a magnetic head slider via a piezoelectric element so that a displacement of the piezoelectric element performs fine control of the position of the...
6914750 Thermal protrusion reduction in magnet heads by utilizing heat sink layers  
A magnetic read/write head and slider assembly and method for forming the magnetic read/write head and slider assembly, wherein the assembly has improved heat spreading and dissipation properties...
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...
6906895 Method of marking sintered body and method for manufacturing magnetic head wafer  
A method of marking a sintered body includes the step of preparing the sintered body by sintering a mixture of first and second types of powder particles. The first type of powder particles is made...
6891698 Wafer having surface contoured to form air bearing surfaces of a plurality of glide heads  
An improved glide head has an air bearing surface with a flatness of less than about 1 μinch. The air bearing surfaces are formed from the very smooth and flat surface of a wafer, preferably prior...
6888701 Enhanced twist adjust range with scribed lines for slider curvature adjust  
Embodiments include a method for adjusting the twist of an air bearing surface of at least one slider to substantially match a target values for twist, the at least one slider having a back surface...
6859344 Head slider with predetermined physical relationships  
In a head slider, when the distance between the upstream position and the downstream position in a direction parallel to the surface of the recording medium is L, and the amount of flying in a...
6844144 Single slider air bearing process using polymer brush formation  
A method of constructing an air bearing on a single slider used as a support for a magnetic recording head is described. A recessed surface of the air bearing is constructed by: applying a...
6747845 Modified strain region of strain reactive slider with implanted ions, electrons or neutral atoms  
At least one modified strain region having a damage depth between 0.1 and 2 microns in a disk drive slider is created by implantation with ions, electrons or neutral atoms. The modified strain...
6744579 Methods for detecting and mitigating the effects of hard drive head crashes  
A method for detecting head-to-disk interference events in a disk drive is provided. The invention comprises coupling a transducer to an air filter in the disk drive, wherein the transducer detects...
6728067 Slider having integrated lapping guides  
A slider of a magnetic hard disk drive has one or more electric lapping guides in immediate proximity to the read/write stack of the slider. The lapping guides remain part of the slider during its...
6687976 Method of manufacturing magnetic head slider and method of fixing magnetic head slider  
The invention provides a method of manufacturing a magnetic head slider and fixing a bar which improves fabrication accuracy without increasing manufacturing costs. After thin film magnetic head...
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...
6666076 Glide head with outer active rail  
A glide head for detecting asperities on a disc surface is provided. The glide head includes a glide slider which includes a glide slider body that has a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a bottom...
6646831 Air bearing slider having optimized etch depth ratio  
An air bearing slider for supporting a transducer over a moving recording medium and a method for fabricating such an air bearing slider. The air bearing slider lifts off the recording medium with...
6646829 Slider materials  
An object of the invention is to facilitate processing and to obtain sliders as many as possible when the sliders for thin-film magnetic heads are manufactured through the use of a...
6643098 Head slider having a terminal group of lubricant of lubrication layer different from that of a medium  
A head slider for recording and playing back signals on a medium while floating on the medium has a head slider body and a lubrication layer on a slider surface of the head slider body. A lubricant...
6556380 Silicon sliders with trapezoidal shape and drie process for fabrication  
A trapezoidal shaped silicon slider is described in the present invention. The slider has a first parallel surface larger than a second parallel surface, thereby generating a built-in positive...
6532132 Methods for marking a sintered product and for fabricating magnetic head substrate  
A marking method for a sintered product of the invention includes forming a concave portion on the sintered product by irradiating the sintered product with laser light thereby to write...
6513229 Method of manufacturing slider materials, method of manufacturing sliders, and slider materials  
An object of the invention is to facilitate processing and to obtain sliders as many as possible when the sliders for thin-film magnetic heads are manufactured through the use of a...
6449123 Methods for marking a sintered product and for fabricating magnetic head substrate  
A marking method for a sintered product of the invention includes forming a concave portion on the sintered product by irradiating the sintered product with laser light thereby to write...
6385011 Air bearing slider and manufacturing method therefor  
An air bearing slider embodiment of the present invention includes a body portion having an air bearing surface (ABS) side and a flexure surface side. The ABS side has at least one air bearing...
6378195 Read/write head with a gimbal ball assembly  
A fixture for assembling and testing a read/write head comprised of a head gimbal assembly (HGA) that allows gimbaling along pitch and roll axes and that utilizes an inexpensive spherical gimbal...
6373659 Magnetic slider head and method of producing the same  
A magnetic head slider having a recording-reproducing element for recording and reproducing information relative to a magnetic recording medium. A sliding protective film is formed at one outer...
6330133 Trailing edge rail shaping  
An air bearing slider having at least one air bearing pad with a trailing edge shaped to provide the desired flying height profile. The air bearing includes a slider body having leading and...
6330122 Magnetic tester for disk surface scan  
The hard disk testing and certifying device of the present invention includes a spin stand to rotate a disk to be tested. A single read/write head, including both a write head and a read head is...
6230380 Slider for burnishing a disc  
A system for burnishing a disc includes a slider having burnish pads. The burnish pads are disposed on air bearing surface of the slider and extends therefrom. The burnish pad includes a burnish...
6219332 Slider for optical disc data storage system  
An optical disc data storage system includes an optical disc having a data surface. An actuator arm having a distal end is selectively radially positionable adjacent the data surface. A transducing...
6212032 Pseudo contact negative pressure air bearing slider with divided negative pressure pockets  
A pseudo contact NPAB head slider configured for supporting a transducer proximate to a rotating disc. The slider includes two side rails extending almost to the trailing edge and a central air...
6181673 Slider design  
A slider is used in an optical or magneto-optical head having an optical assembly mounted on the slider body, for directing a read-write laser beam onto and from a data storage disk. The optical...
6125004 Magnetic head and method of manufacturing a magnetic head  
A slider for a magnetic head has air bearing surfaces in a medium opposing surface, and traces of processing are formed in the medium opposing surface excluding the air bearing surfaces to induce a...
6122148 Magnetic head slider and method of production thereof  
In a magnetic head slider having a recording-reproducing element for recording and reproducing information relative to a magnetic recording medium, a sliding protective film is formed at a front...
6118634 Flying type head slider and disk drive apparatus with the flying tape head slider  
A flying type head slider is provided having a rear surface faced to a magnetic disk for recording and/or reproducing signal on or from a magnetic disk. The flying type head slider includes a...
6108170 Slider row with segmented scribe lines for individual control curvature of sliders in the row  
A row of magnetic read/write sliders which have scribe lines on a back surface. The scribe lines provide an accurate curvature for the air bearing surface which is opposite the back surface. The...
5982583 Slider having thermally applied tensile stress for curvature control and method of applying tensile stress  
A method of controlling curvature of a disc head slider having a slider body with a bearing surface and a back surface, which is opposite to the bearing surface. The method includes melting and...
5953180 Multi-mode suspension populated actuator for a disk drive  
The invention is several alternative means of differentiating head/gimbal assemblies that share a common arm. The alternative means are for at least one of the assemblies that shares a common arm...
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