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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2023
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Kia Moh Teo, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An assembly configured for a hard disk drive includes a head slider having a suspension face and a recording medium face opposing the suspension face, where the slider houses a read-write transducer at or near a trailing edge (TE) face opposing a LE face, and a suspension assembly comprising a flexure having a standoff structure extending from a main planar body of the flexure, to which the suspension face of the slider is adhered. A first portion of the suspension face of the slider is coated with an anti-reflective coating (ARC) extending at least to a farthest portion, in a direction of the LE face, of the standoff structure of the flexure. An adhesive attaches the head slider to the flexure and is positioned to interface in its entirety with at least a portion of the ARC.