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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Pantelis S. Alexopoulos, San Jose, CA (US);
Lee K. Dorius, San Jose, CA (US);
Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy C. O'Sullivan, San Jose, CA (US);
Gurinder Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a non-actuatable, self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same. A protruding element surrounding the transducer is fabricated using a third etch step so that the protruding element has a height that is greater than or equal to the designed fly height of the aerodynamic lift surface minus the disk roughness.