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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360103 ;
Abstract
In the slider 1 on which a transducer 5 is mounted and which moves above a recording surface 4, in order to generate different vibration modes according to various situations such as vertical lift-off and landing, and breaking away from stiction, etc. A plurality of piezo-electric elements 8A, 8B, 8C, and 8D are disposed on the slider 1 and means for supplying a different AC voltage to each of the piezo-electric elements 8A, 8B, 8C, and 8D is provided.