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7385786 Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted  
A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head for recording/reproducing information from/into a magnetic disk and a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted. The slider has a first surface...
7379257 Magnetic disk drive  
A magnetic disk drive includes an actuator arm, a suspension fixed to a tip end of the actuator arm, and a head slider having at least two electromagnetic transducers mounted at a tip end of the...
7359155 Slider, head assembly and disk apparatus  
Disclosed is a slider which is substantially rectangular and has a disc facing surface with an air inflow end and an air outflow end in the longitudinal direction, comprising a first positive...
7339766 System and method for a subambient pressure air bearing slider utilizing negative pressure grooves  
A system and method are disclosed for a subambient pressure air bearing slider utilizing negative pressure grooves. In one embodiment, a groove extends from a slider's leading edge, splits, and...
7333297 Method and apparatus supporting a slider having multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket for a hard disk drive  
An air bearing surface, with multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket, between a leading air bearing surface and a central island for the read-write head. A gap separates left and...
7277255 Head slider with positive dynamic pressure generating section  
A head slider is designed to prevent collision against a surface of a disk due to an external impact and the like while a device is in use to avoid damages on an air bearing surface (“ABS”) of...
7271973 Flying height compensation for up/down bit error rate trend difference  
A disk drive that has a plurality of heads coupled to one or more disks. The heads have air bearing surfaces that compensate for a radial crown and a radial camber of an adjacent disk to maintain a...
7265943 Air bearing for a head to provide reduced cross-curve sensitivity  
An air bearing for a slider including cooperating raised bearing surfaces or portions along a trailing edge portion of the slider. The cooperating raised bearing surfaces or portions are formed on...
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...
7245455 Center split feature and pressurization for altitude insensitivity, high pitch torque and high preload sensitivity air bearing slider  
The present invention is directed to a bearing surface on a slider having a center split pressurization feature which minimizes the effects of altitude or change in ambient air pressure on the...
7236329 Head slider having extension rails to provide uniform flotation and magnetic disk device including the same  
A head slider including a disk-facing surface having an inflow end and outflow end, inflow-end-side rail, negative pressure part, three extension rails, a pair of siderails, an...
7227723 Reduced lubricant accumulating slider  
A slider having an advanced air bearing can employ control features that permit control of the flow-field streamline direction and thus enable an indirect mass transfer that flushes any accumulated...
7209323 Slider having cavity floor with differing depths  
A disc head slider having a slider body that includes a bearing surface, a cavity dam and a sub-ambient pressure cavity is provided. The sub-ambient pressure cavity has a cavity floor, a plurality...
7193805 Flying-type disk drive slider with micropad  
A slider ( 2 ′) with a reduced fly height is disclosed. The slider includes a small micropad ( 66 ) on the lower surface ( 22 ′) of the slider ( 2 ′). A sensor region ( 62 ) of a head ( 61 )...
7184244 Method for flying a disk drive slider having a high pressure micropad ABS  
A slider for a disk drive is disclosed. In one embodiment, the slider includes an air bearing pad that contains a read/write transducer. This particular air bearing pad is small. High pressures are...
7168154 Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension  
An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal...
7167343 Head shock resistance and head load/unload protection for reducing disk errors and defects, and enhancing data integrity of disk drives  
A slider in a disk drive is shock-protected with an overcoat layer of either metal or polymer directly on the areas of the slider that are prone to contact the disk when the slider is loaded off...
7165317 Electrode extension sheet for use in a lapping apparatus  
The present invention is an object to provide an apparatus or a method making it possible to easily effect connection between additional electrodes, etc. and lead electrodes when performing a...
7164556 Magnetic disk device and magnetic head slider  
A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head mounting surface, a slider rail surface, a step air bearing surface, and a negative pressure groove. The magnetic head mounting surface is arranged...
7159228 Converter support device with slider  
A converter that records or reproduces information to or from a recording medium while making a movement relative to the recording medium is mounted on a slider. The slider has at least a pair of...
7154709 Slider with recessed pressurization surfaces  
One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a slider that includes an aerodynamic surface which includes a first bearing surface, a cavity floor, and a first recessed pressurization...
7137190 Method for fabricating a magnetic transducer with a corrosion resistant layer on metallic thin films by nitrogen exposure  
A process is described for fabricating magnetic transducers with metallic thin films with a corrosion resistant surface produced by exposing the thin films to a nitrogen in a plasma chamber. The...
7137189 Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension  
An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal...
7137188 Method of constructing an integrated lead suspension  
An integrated lead suspension includes a solder ball that is placed between a lead wiring pad provided on a flexure of the suspension, and a bonding pad provided on a slider of a head gimbal...
7119991 System and method for preventing computer storage media surface contaminant accumulation and for preventing impact-related head/slider damage  
A system and method are disclosed for preventing computer storage media surface contaminant accumulation and for preventing impact-related head/slider damage. Such a system may include a component...
7100269 Method of manufacturing slider of thin-film magnetic head  
A slider comprises a slider section and an element section. The slider section has a first medium facing surface and an air inflow end. The element section has a second medium facing surface, an...
7099114 Air bearing slider for disk drive  
An air bearing slider of a disk including a body having a surface facing a disk; a first rail base protruding from the surface facing the disk; a first rail portion protruding from the first rail...
7096567 Method for measuring amount of grinding in magnetic head producing process  
The present invention is an object to provide an apparatus or a method making it possible to easily effect connection between additional electrodes, etc. and lead electrodes when performing a...
7085103 Magnetic head slider with side pads which each have a width W and a length L, wherein W>L  
A magnetic head slider, for sliding on a magnetic disk, which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge,...
7072146 Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted  
A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head for recording/reproducing information from/into a magnetic disk and a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted. The slider has a first positive...
7027265 Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded having an air clogging dished space  
A flying head slider includes a slider body. The upstream or leading end of a bottom surface on the slider body is defined along a first datum line extending in the lateral direction of the slider...
7019945 Air bearing slider including pressurized side pads with forward and trailing shallow etched surfaces  
An aspect of the invention can be regarded an air bearing slider for use in a disk drive including a rotatable magnetic disk. The slider includes a leading side and a trailing side. The slider...
RE39004 Pseudo contact type negative pressure air bearing slider  
A negative pressure air bearing slider includes a slider body for flying above a surface of a recording disc during relative rotation of the recording disc. First and second projections extend from...
6999283 Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded  
A flying head slider includes a slider body. The upstream or leading end of a bottom surface on the slider body is defined along a first datum line extending in the lateral direction of the slider...
6999282 Slider with cavity dam angled leading edge and further displaced recessed surface positioned outside angled rails  
A disc head slider is provided and includes a slider body having a disc-facing surface which includes a bearing surface that is generally disposed within a bearing surface plane. An angled inside...
6993826 Method of manufacturing a probe array  
An optical-pickup slider is characterized in that a light-transmitting-property substrate is bonded to a surface of a layer having a tapered through hole, on which surface a larger opening of the...
6989966 Slider having plural leading step-level slots  
An AAB slider has a leading edge generally impinging fluid flow due to movement of a medium relative to the slider. A cavity dam defines a continuous air bearing surface that extends over a region...
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...
6985339 Disc drive having electromagnetic biased shieldless CPP reader  
A head slider moveable relative to a storage media having a storage layer is disclosed. The disc head slider comprises a read head formed on the head slider, and comprises a first electrical...
6985334 Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted  
A magnetic head slider includes a magnetic head for recording/reproducing information from/into a magnetic disk and a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted. The slider has a first positive...
6965498 Air-bearing sliders having leading read/write head and flying with negative pitch  
The present invention is directed towards air-bearing sliders that are used in disk drives. The invention involves pitching a slider so that the leading portion of the slider is closer to the disk...
6961217 Head slider and disk drive employing same head slider, and method for providing water repellent treatment to same head slider  
With a view to providing a head slider which can suppress the adhesion of dust particles to a flying surface of the head slider when the head slider flies and a disk drive employing the same head...
6956719 Self-correcting disc head slider  
A disc head slider supports a transducer relative to a moving media in a data storage system. The slider includes a slider body having a media opposing face with a leading slider edge, a trailing...
6937439 Slider having a textured air bearing surface, head stack assembly and disk drive using same  
A disk drive includes a disk having a recording surface and a head stack assembly. The head stack assembly includes a body portion that includes a bore defining a pivot axis, an actuator arm...
6934123 Magnetic disk device and magnetic head slider  
A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, and a magnetic head slider. The slider has a magnetic head, a plurality of surfaces which are formed sequentially from an adjacent side to a...
6934122 Disc head slider with sub-ambient pressure cavity bottom surfaces of differing depths  
A disc head slider having a slider body that includes a bearing surface, a cavity dam and a sub-ambient pressure cavity is provided. The sub-ambient pressure cavity has a cavity floor, a plurality...
6927942 Magnetic head slider and magnetic head slider assembly having a leading slope angle smaller than a trailing slope angle  
A head slider has small friction force even if the head slider comes in contact with a magnetic disk having a smooth surface at high speed. The vibration is also low and wear resistance is high....
6920015 Disc head slider designs to reduce particle sensitivity  
A head slider is provided that includes a slider body having leading and trailing slider edges and first and second side edges. The body further includes an air bearing surface generally disposed...
6884526 Textured magnetic media for use with low-flying padded heads  
High areal recording density, magnetic hard disk recording media including CSS landing zones with laser-textured surfaces having shallow bump heights of from about 40 to about 80 Å, bump spacing...
6879464 Air bearing having a cavity patch surface coplanar with a leading edge pad surface  
An air bearing surface for read/write head of a magnetic disk drive is disclosed. The air bearing surface includes a trailing edge pad and a leading edge pad with trailing portions. A cavity is...
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