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Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2018
Applicants:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuhiro Furutani, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;

Toru Watanabe, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Masami Yamane, Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP;

Kan Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 (2006.01); G11B 33/14 (2006.01); G11B 21/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/6082 (2013.01); G11B 5/6064 (2013.01); G11B 21/21 (2013.01); G11B 33/1446 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a suspension and a magnetic head supported by the suspension via a gimbal portion. The magnetic head includes a slider and a head portion in the slider. The slider includes an air bearing surface, a pair of side surfaces, a leading-side end surface, and a trailing-side end surface. The slider includes a deep groove which is formed between a leading-side step portion and a trailing-side step portion and is open to the air bearing surface and the pair of side surfaces, and at least a pair of capturing grooves which is formed on a bottom surface of the deep groove. The capturing grooves are provided along the pair of side surface and are placed with a gap from the pair of side surfaces.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Furutani, Kazuhiro. (2019). Head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk device with the same with slider having intermittent capture grooves (U.S. Patent No. 10475479). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10475479

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