Seagate Technology Incorporated

Kevin Lamber Mayer

Andrew D Habermas

Mihaela Ruxandra Baurceanu

Ricky Ray Anderson

Chea Phann

Joel William Hoehn

Gordon Merle Jones

Peter John Gunderson

Yuhong Xiong

Marc Ronshaugen

Glenn Johnson

Paul E Gallup

The present disclosure includes one or more resilient members for use in an apparatus used to form lapping plates. The resilient members can permit processing members such as charging elements and shaving blades to conform to irregularities in surface topography of lapping plate platens.

One or more conformal members used in the manufacture of a lapping plate, and related apparatuses and methods of making

A plurality of transducer bars may be concurrently translated from a first orientation to a second orientation by a translation system that has first and second plates. The first plate can have a plurality of first notches with each first notch shaped to hold a transducer bar in a horizontal orientation. The second plate can have a plurality of second notches with each second notch shaped to translate the transducer bar from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation.

Transducer bar translation system and method of translating a transducer bar

An assembly includes a carrier device having proximal and distal ends. The carrier device includes a workpiece platform along the proximal end. The workpiece platform supports one or more slider bars. The carrier device attaches to a lapping machine. An adaptive component, including at least one spring, has a first portion that couples to the carrier device and a second portion that couples to a grinding-slicing machine.

Universal carrier device and adaptive components for the carrier device

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Apple Valley, MN, United States of America

Kevin Lamber Mayer