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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Stanley C. Smith, Jr., Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Oh-Hun Kwon, Westborough, MA (US);
John Clayton, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Donald A. Bennett, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc., Worcester, MA (US);
Abstract
A slider for use during production of a rigid memory disk comprises a rigid body fabricated from a single phase material having a fracture toughness greater than 4 MPam . A head gimbal assembly and a test device are also provided. The head gimbal assembly comprises a flexure and a slider secured to the flexure's distal end portion. The test device comprises a support structure, a rotary drive operative to rotate a disk thereon relative to the support structure, a head gimbal assembly, a piezoelectric transducer supported on the slider of the head gimbal assembly for producing an electronic signal in response to asperity detection, signal processing electronics for processing the electronic signal, and electrical Interconnects for establishing communication between the transducer and the signal processing electronics.