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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. 12, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ;
Abstract
To provide a head slider capable of enhancing the electromagnetic transductional characteristic of a magnetic head and a magnetic disk unit provided with the head slider, the head slider provided with a rail on each side and floated over a magnetic disk by air flow, the head slider for reading or recording information from/in the magnetic disk mounted on the rail on one side of the head slider, and the rails formed asymmetrically so that the floated quantity of the rail on the side on which the head slider is mounted is lower than the floated quantity of the rail on the side on which the head slider is not mounted.