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7352532 Method and apparatus for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive  
An apparatus and method for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A slider...
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...
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...
7290325 Methods of manufacturing magnetic heads with reference and monitoring devices  
According to one aspect, an exemplary method for manufacturing a magnetic head includes forming a plurality of magnetoresistive devices, a reference device, and a monitoring device, where the...
7240418 Method of manufacturing slider of thin-film magnetic head  
A slider includes a slider main body and a thin-film magnetic head element. The slider main body has an air bearing surface, an air inflow end, and an air outflow end. The air bearing surface has a...
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...
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...
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...
7154710 Magnetic head slider  
A magnetic head slider comprises a slider body comprising a base portion made of an altic material and an element-forming portion, made of alumina, having formed thereon magnetic conversion...
7116521 Head slider and disk drive employing same head slider, and method for providing water repellent treatment to same head slider  
A head slider which can suppress the adhesion of dust particles to its flying surface. At least one air bearing portion and a land portion for forming a vacuum area on the flying surface are...
7106556 Slider configured for rapid bearing stabilization during ramp load operations  
A slider includes a longitudinal axis, a recessed region, a bearing surface, first and second elongated rails, and first and second elongated depressions. The first and second elongated rails...
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...
7082671 Magnetic disc apparatus production method  
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...
7017257 Method for directly debonding sliders during single slider processing  
A process for directly debonding sliders during single slider processing includes placing the sliders in pockets in a divider with one surface of each slider contacting a tape. A planerization...
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...
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...
6950266 Active fly height control crown actuator  
A micro-actuator is comprised of a piezoelectric motor mounted on a flexure tongue with offsetting hinges, to perform a fine positioning of the magnetic read/write head. The substantial gain in the...
6934124 Rotating recording medium and slider of thin-film magnetic head device  
A slider includes a slider main body and a thin-film magnetic head element. The slider main body has an air bearing surface, an air inflow end, and an air outflow end. The air bearing surface has a...
6882505 Slider of thin-film magnetic head and method of manufacturing same  
A slider comprises a slider body and a thin-film magnetic head element. The slider body has an air bearing surface, an air inflow end, and an air outflow end. The air bearing surface has: a first...
6882504 Micro textured slider with predicted tipped position  
A slider for a data head including a dynamically imbalanced slider landing integrated pad interface (SLIP interface) forming a predicted tipped interface. For contact starts and stops the SLIP...
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...
6683754 Hard disk drive head-media system having reduced stiction and low fly height  
A head and disk system for use in a disk drive that includes a slider having a surface that contacts the disk. This disk contacting surface of the slider is textured with pads, bumps, an etched...
6678119 Disc head slider having rails with enclosed depressions  
A disc head slider includes a longitudinal axis, a recessed region, and first and second elongated rails extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis and being disposed about the recessed...
6661612 Air bearing slider including side rail shallow recessed surfaces extending along trailing portions of leading side air bearing surfaces  
An air bearing slider for use in a disk drive. The slider includes a leading side and an opposing trailing side. The slider further includes a pair of leading side air bearing surfaces disposed...
6654206 Disc head slider with intermittent contact protection feature  
A slider having contact protection for ultra-low fly heights. The contact protection includes contact pads having an ultra-low height dimension to reduce friction and damage for intermittent...
6611400 Texture structure for optimizing head disc interface  
A head disc interface having a fine pitch surface roughness including fine pitch projections having a relatively smooth roughness height and a projection pitch <1.0 μm for optimizing...
6603639 Slider for disc 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...
6597537 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...
6597536 Magnetic head slider  
A magnetic head slider assembly is provided, in which a flying height of the head slider is not changed when a peripheral speed and a yaw angle of the magnetic head slider assembly with respect to...
6583959 Read write head assembly having air bearing features for contaminant control in flexible media head-disk interface  
An improved head assembly having air bearing features for contaminant control in flexible media high contact-pressure zone. The head assembly having one or more air bearing features for improving...
6574190 Coil-on-block design with reduced particle accumulation on MO disc drives  
The air bearing design consists of four rectangular pads. Each pad features an open rectangular pocket located at the corner of the leading and inner (closer to the disc ID) edges. The pocket opens...
6552872 Magnetic disk drive capable of preventing stiction of magnetic head  
A magnetic disk drive includes a magnetic recording medium rotatably mounted in a housing, a magnetic head slider having an electromagnetic transducer for reading/writing data from/to the magnetic...
6552871 Hard disk drive head-media system having reduced stiction and low fly height  
A disk drive system including a disk having a contact surface and a slider having a surface with a pattern of features is described. The disk's contact surface is textured with protrusions that...
6535464 Magneto-optic head with burnishing feature  
A magneto-optical head assembly includes waffle-like burnishing features incorporated into the air bearing surfaces of the head assembly. The magneto-optical mesa, or operative feature of the...
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...
6532134 Silicon coating on air bearing surface for magnetic thin film heads  
A silicon coating on an air bearing surface for magnetic thin film heads. A thick silicon layer is provided to replace metallic layers such as TiW as an overcoat for thin film heads. The silicon...
6529347 Disc drive slider having textured pads  
A disc drive slider includes a slider body and a rail formed on the slider body. The rail includes a bearing surface which faces a surface of a disc. A textured portion is formed on the bearing...
6529346 Magnetic head slider with protrusion on surface facing recording medium  
A magnetic head slider for writing or reading magnetic information while flying above a magnetic disk, includes a slider body provided with a magnetic head core, and a rail and/or a pad for...
6507458 Head slider and disk apparatus  
A head slider has a chamfered pad between the side edge and rail at the surface opposing the disk. The pad prevents contact between the edge of the basic material of the head slider and the disk....
6501622 Head slider capable of improving shock resistance of recording disk drive  
A head slider, usually employed in a recording disk drive, comprises a chamfered vertex defined at a corner of a polygonal bottom surface surrounded by a contour separated from a contour of an air...
6466410 Slider for a data storage device with head disc interface for contact starts and stops (“CSS”)  
A slider with contact interface features for contact starts and stops. Contact interface features include elevated leading edge contact interface features including elevated contact pads, ribs or...
6459547 Slider with pads and textured landing zone for disc 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...
6452751 Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted  
A magnetic head slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing information from/into a magnetic disk and a slider on which the magnetic head is mounted. The slider has three surface portions...
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...
6445543 Slider with pressure relief trenches  
A slider for supporting transducer elements for a data storage system including at least one pressure relief trench formed in the raised bearing proximate to a contact interface position of the...
6441999 Wear durability using high wear-resistant slip pads  
A disc drive includes a base and a disc rotatably attached to the base. The disc drive also includes an actuator assembly rotatably attached to said base and a device for moving the actuator...
6426850 Converter support structure  
A slider portion is provided with protrusion portions having a spherical surface, contacting a recording medium. A center of a magnetic pole is arranged on the line C 1 connecting the vertices of...
6411464 Magnetic head including sliding member having bearing surface formed of protrusions with almost flat tips  
A magnetic head and production method with excellent productivity with which a surface with fine irregularities is formed only on the bearing surface of the sliding member facing the magnetic...
6396664 Negative pressure air bearing slider  
A negative pressure air bearing slider including a first air bearing surface formed on the bottom of the slider body at the upstream position so as to extend in the lateral direction of the slider...
6396663 Head slider and recording disk drive  
A projection serves to space the air bearing surface apart from the surface of a recording disk when the recording disk stands still. The contact area can be reduced between a flying head slider...
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