Hitachi, Ltd.

Kiyoji Morita

Toshio Suzuki

Masaaki Matsumoto

Hiroshi Sakurai

Yokuo Saitoh

Hiroshi Daito

Yasuo Kojima

Mikio Takahashi

Tetsuo Masukawa

Yukimori Umakoshi

Eiji Nakanishi

Masato Furusaki

A magnetic head includes a gimbal with a head slider attached thereon, a load beam retained on the gimbal, and a mount attached on an end portion of the load beam on a side opposite to a side where the head slider is attached. A fulcrum portion as a center of load of the head slider is set on the gimbal to be shifted from a center of the head slider along its longitudinal direction to a proximal end side of the load beam, namely, toward an air upstream side. To compensate for the imbalance of the floating force due to the shift of the fulcrum portion, there is generated a moment about the fulcrum portion. The moment is provided by assigning an inclination angle to a slider attaching surface of the gimbal. The inclination angle can be adjusted by the height of the projection formed as the fulcrum portion. Moreover, the moment is generated by disposing rails on the head slider such that the width on the air upstream side of each rail is wider than the width on the air downstream side of the rail. This compensates for the variation in the load of the head slider and hence minimizes the change in the quantity of floating distance.

Magnetic head supporting apparatus having a fulcrum point of load

A magnetic disk apparatus has a disk assembly including a single servo disk and a plurality of data disks, a servo-head supporting structure for supporting a servo head and data-head supporting structures for supporting data heads. These heads are so disposed as to cooperate with respective disks. The servo-head and data-head supporting structures are driven by an actuator to move the servo head and the data heads to the required positions on the corresponding disks. The servo-head supporting structure and each of the data-head supporting structures have different proper oscillations to prevent the occurrence of a resonance during a seek operation.

Magnetic disk apparatus with head supporting structures of different

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Odawara, Japan

Kiyoji Morita