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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:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Bunch, San Jose, CA (US);
Linden J. Crawforth, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony A. Razouk, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Timothy C. Reiley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/187 ; G11B 5/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/187 ; G11B 5/60 ;
Abstract
A trapezoidal shaped silicon slider is described in the present invention. The slider has a first parallel surface larger than a second parallel surface, thereby generating a built-in positive pitch with respect to a recording medium when the slider is incorporated into a hard disk drive. The slider further includes round edges at the first parallel surface, longitudinal holes within its body, non-planar slanted side surfaces, and a rounded leading edge. The silicon, trapezoidal slider is fabricated using a deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) technique.