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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1997
Stanley Clifford Smith, Jr, Green Mountain Falls, CO (US);
Micro Glide, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abstract
A glide head device for attachment to a flexure and for operation with a test system to detect a presence of asperities on a moving surface includes a slider constructed as a rigid body that is adapted to be suspended from the flexure and a transducer operatively associated with the slider. The slider's rigid body includes an air bearing surface operative to be oriented in facing relation to the moving surface when in an operative state and a sidewall margin area adjacent the trailing edge which is microfinished to a selected Ra value, such as 200 angstroms. A glide head assembly and a test device incorporating such a glide head device are also provided.