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7342749 Method of removing lead-free solder from slider pad and magnetic disk drive  
A method for removing a lead-free solder from a slider pad is provided to permit re-utilization of a head/slider used in a magnetic disk drive. In one embodiment, a slider pad formed on a...
7327535 Hybrid coating for magnetic heads  
A system and method for providing corrosion protection for a magnetic read/write head is disclosed. A monolayer surface coating is applied to cover those portions of the under layer of a magnetic...
7324306 System, method, and apparatus for improving the multiple velocity performance and write element protrusion compensation of disk drive sliders  
An air bearing design enables a slider to fly at a higher fly height when the rotational speed of the disk is reduced to about one-third of its operational velocity. In addition, the slider has a...
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...
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...
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...
7262937 Responsive aeroelastic slider  
One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a slider that includes a substrate, a transducer tip disposed on the substrate, and a hydrodynamic surface including a responsive aeroelastic...
7259937 Magnetic recording device having a head slider utilizing a water-repellant resin lubricant having specified surface tension properties  
A head slider to which little amount of contaminants is adhered, that can form a uniform and flat head lubricant layer surface and that has excellent ultra-low floating properties, as well as a...
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...
7236328 Method for producing a transducer slider with tapered edges  
The present invention relates to a method for producing a transducer slider. The method involves first coating a substrate with a radiation-sensitive layer and exposing the radiation-sensitive...
7233459 Integral wear-pad for slider-disk interference detection  
A slider-mounted transducer has an integral wear pad for determining interference between the transducer and a disk surface. The wear pad intensifies interference events during disk drive testing...
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...
7159301 Method of manufacturing a slider of a thin-film magnetic head  
A method of manufacturing a slider comprises the steps of: forming a slider material including a substrate, a thin-film magnetic head element and an insulating portion; forming a first surface in...
7153193 System and apparatus for selectively sensing and removing asperities from hard disk drive media utilizing active thermally controlled flying heights  
A system for selectively sensing and removing asperities from hard disk drive disk is disclosed. The system includes a test stand supporting the disk, the test stand having at least one suspension...
7153192 Method for selectively sensing and removing asperities from hard disk drive media utilizing active thermally controlled flying heights  
A method for selectively sensing and removing asperities from the surface of hard disk drive media is disclosed. A thermally controlled flying height burnish slider is flown on a test stand with...
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...
7092213 Multiple level surface configuration for a sub-ambient pressure air bearing slider  
A slider design is presented including a first structure that extends between the rails of the slider body and over at least the first third of the slider body. A second structure having a depth...
7061721 Slider having a stable flying posture and disk device including the slider  
A slider maintains a uniform flying posture and a predetermined flying height by suppressing variations of roll angle and flying height. At an air bearing surface of the slider, an edge line on an...
7054108 Slider for a data storage device having improved stiction control with reduced interference with air bearing pressurization  
A slider for carrying transducers for a data storage device including a stiction control trench. The stiction control trench includes a boundary dimension to reduce creep or interference of the...
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...
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...
6920019 Device and method for improved stiction reliability in disk drives employing padded sliders  
A disk drive ( 10 ) including one or more storage disks ( 12 ) and a head stack assembly ( 14 ) is provided herein. The head stack assembly ( 14 ) includes an actuator assembly ( 16 ) and a...
6914752 Magnetic recording disk drive with continuous contact air-bearing slider  
A magnetic recording disk drive achieves continuous contact recording with a head-suspension assembly that compensates for the moment generated from an adhesive force between the head carrier or...
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...
6888693 Disc drive slider with protruding electrostatic actuator electrode  
A device for accessing data stored on a medium includes a substrate that has a transducer on a back side, a bottom side facing the disc, and a surface that protrudes from the bottom side. An...
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...
6693771 Magnetic head with slider including respective cores for high and standard recording densities, and method for producing the same  
A magnetic head exhibits a good traceability without damaging itself or a magnetic disk. The magnetic head includes a slider, and the slider includes a plurality of magnetic cores and an outrigger...
6687089 Thin film magnetic head with base coat and small pole-tip recess  
A magnetic head is formed of materials having different hardnesses. The head includes a base coat formed on a substrate having a high hardness, for example alumina titanium carbide, upon which a...
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...
6647612 Method for constructing an ultra-low-flying-height slider  
A method is disclosed for constructing an ultra-low-flying-height slider for carrying a transducing head in a disc drive system including a rotatable disc. The method comprises removing material...
6639753 Method of forming a head assembly, a head assembly, and a linear tape drive  
Methods of forming a head assembly, a head assembly, and a linear tape drive are provided. One aspect provides a method of forming a head assembly including providing a base member; forming a...
6590745 Magnetic head, method of manufacturing same, and magnetic disk apparatus  
A magnetic head with an air bearing surface to which an appropriate roughness, a method of manufacturing the same, and a magnetic disk apparatus are provided. A head core part is formed on a base...
6589436 Method of adjusting the flatness of a slider using selective plasma etching  
Provided is a reactive ion etching (RIE) method for use in altering the flatness of a slider, whereby a slider or row of sliders is placed within a RIE apparatus. The apparatus comprises...
6582630 Method of fabricating and integrating an optical assembly into a flying head  
Several embodiments of a method for manufacturing an optical assembly for use in an optical flying head are provided. The optical assembly may include a solid immersion lens and a magnetic coil....
6546355 ABS shape correction method for slider of magnetic head, and ABS shape correction apparatus for slider of magnetic head  
Three-dimensional positions on an ABS of a slider of a magnetic head are measured, and an interpolated surface 63 is generated by interpolating all the measured points. A processing center...
6538849 Diamond-pattern directed tipping slip magnetic head  
A head slider apparatus, to be attached to a magnetic head in a magnetic disc drive, for preventing bimodal stiction by preventing tipping of the head slider on its rear edge by forcing tipping of...
6535354 Head slider having pads that do not direct dust across the float patterns  
A head slider is assembled in a magnetic disk drive unit and is capable of floating from a surface of a rotating magnetic disk by an air stream, which is formed between the rotating magnetic disk...
6498701 Method of channeling accumulated disc lube off of recording head sliders  
A method and system is presented for a slider positioned to control a flow of lubricant over the slider body. The slider can also include a raised rail. A pad can be positioned on the slider...
6470565 Method of manufacturing slider of thin-film magnetic head  
A method of manufacturing a slider includes the steps of forming an air bearing surface of a slider material including a thin-film magnetic head element; and etching a part of the air bearing...
6452750 Slider including a rail having a concave end and method of manufacturing same  
A slider is provided that can implement a magnetic head reducing damage to a magnetic recording medium. The slider includes a body having a surface facing the magnetic recording medium and...
6445542 Air bearing slider  
A slider includes an air bearing surface (ABS) including a plurality of separate coplanar pads, a cavity recessed to a certain depth beneath the level of the ABS, and a plurality of steps in which...
6445541 High suction air bearing with pressure release  
A disk drive system includes a base, a disk stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. A ramp assembly includes a set of ramps for loading and...
6433966 Active rear posts improved stiction flyability slider integrated pads  
An information handling system, such as a disc drive, including a base, a disc stack rotatably attached to the base, and an actuator assembly movably attached to the base. The actuator assembly...
6433965 Laminated carbon-containing overcoats for information storage system transducers  
Plural carbon-containing overcoats are formed on a media-facing surface of an information storage system head. The plural carbon-containing overcoats can mitigate corrosion without increasing...
6359753 Floating magnetic head for use with flexible disks  
A magnetic head including first and second magnetic head units for recording to and reproducing from a first and second flexible rotating recording medium; the second flexible rotating recording...
6333835 Step pad air bearing for load/unload mechanism  
A recording head for a disk drive with a load/unload mechanism has an air bearing on one surface. The air bearing comprises a patterned set of three air bearing pads, at least five shallow pockets...
6317293 Magnetic head slider  
After a sacrifice layer 51 has been formed on a substrate 50, there are formed a protective layer 41, flying surface layer 42, head element layer 43 and actuator layer 44. Further, a slider body 45...
6311388 Method of making air bearing with corner steps  
An air bearing slider for a disc drive includes an air bearing surface defined on the disc opposing face at least in part by a first step or cavity. An additional corner step is defined in bar...
6268978 Magnetic disk apparatus  
A magnetic disk apparatus having excellent wear resistance and high reliability can be provided by arranging cylindrical or polygonal cylindrical protrusions or protrusions of honeycomb structure...
6233118 System for capturing wear debris in a data storage system  
A data storage system including a head supporting transducer elements relative to a disc surface for proximity recording. The head including a slider having debris collection cavities positioned...
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