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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2002
Sachiyo Baba, Yamato, JP;
Yasunori Kawamoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Shunichiroh Ohta, Machida, JP;
Masayuki Kanamaru, Fujisawa, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. Netherlands B.V, Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A slider is disposed to face a disk-like recording medium and enabled to support a read/write head. The slider has an air bearing surface formed between a leading edge and a trailing edge ; side rails and formed on the air bearing surface almost like a U-letter so as to dispose its tip at the trailing edge side ; a cross rail ; and a pair of landing pads and formed between the tip of each of the side rails and the cross rail to and the trailing edge . One of the pair of landing pads and is formed as a convex surface at its side facing the rail of the landing pad disposed at the outer periphery side of the disk-like recording medium while the slider is disposed so as to face the disk-like recording medium.