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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:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
May. 03, 1996
Peter Crane, Richfield, MN (US);
Robert Edward Chapin, Burnsville, MN (US);
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A disc head slider for communicating with a rotating disc includes a slider body with leading and trailing slider edges, inside and outside slider edges relative to the disc, and a center line which extends from the leading slider edge to the trailing slider edge. A center rail is positioned substantially along the center line and includes inside and outside rail edges, a bearing surface and an edge step surface which is raised from the slider body and recessed from the bearing surface. The edge step surface extends along at least one of the inside and outside rail edges and has a greater area along the inside rail edge than the outside rail edge.