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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. 01, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
John L. Brand, Burnsville, MN (US);
Kenneth J. Altshuler, Boulder, CO (US);
Gordon M. Jones, Eagan, MN (US);
Mohomed-Salah H. Khlif, Fridley, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ; G11B 1/732 ; G11B 2/121 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 ; G11B 1/732 ; G11B 2/121 ;
Abstract
A disc head slider includes a slider body having a disc-facing surface and a leading surface adjacent to the disc facing surface. The disc facing surface has leading-most edge and first and second side edges. A bearing surface is formed on the disc facing surface. A debris deflection surface is formed along the leading surface, which is spaced vertically from the leading-most edge with respect to the disc facing surface and has a tangent that forms an angle with the bearing surface of less than ninety degrees.