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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yuji Tsukamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Ken Ajiki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430320 ; 430323 ; 430324 ;
Abstract
A magnetic head slider has a protective film which forms, at a portion of an air bearing surface nearer to the air incoming side from the center, a hill-shaped crown of a desired height sufficient in terms of the mechanical durability of the protective film by a variation of the film thickness of the protective film and which is flat with a film thickness of 10 nm or less on the air outgoing side at which a magnetic head element is provided. This protective film may be a diamond-like carbon film (DLC) or a single layer structure of polycrystalline Si or else a layered structure of a combination of them.