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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Shoji Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shoji Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Komag, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 (2006.01); G11B 21/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A slider having a protrusion extending beyond an air bearing surface of the slider to maintain the slider with a positive pitch angle during contact with the surface of a disk. The protrusion may be disposed on a leading edge step of the slider body with the protrusion extending beyond the air bearing surface. The slider may be used in a load/unload disk drive system to provide a positive pitch attitude to the slider at all times during operations of the disk drive system.