Hitachi, Ltd.

Kasufumi Azuma

Kazuo Nate

Eisei Togawa

Harunobu Saito

Akiko Mizushima

Hiroshi Ishizaki

Hideki Sonobe

A process for producing a magnetic head slider with at least one rail having an air bearing surface. The process includes the steps of disposing a non-metallic film on a work surface to be shaped of a magnetic head slider material so as to be in intimate contact with the work surface, patterning the non-metallic film disposed on the work surface into at least one predetermined rail shape, shaping the work surface of the magnetic head slider material utilizing the patterned non-metallic film as a mask, and stripping off the patterned non-metallic film utilized as a mask which remains on the work surface of the slider material so as to provide at least one shaped slider rail of the magnetic head slider.

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Sagamihara, Japan

Kasufumi Azuma