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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Air bearing slider including pressurized side pads with forward and trailing shallow etched surfaces
Jih-ping Peng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ciuter Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ji-feng Ying, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung-chang Ward Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Jih-Ping Peng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ciuter Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Ji-Feng Ying, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung-Chang Ward Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
An aspect of the invention can be regarded an air bearing slider for use in a disk drive including a rotatable magnetic disk. The slider includes a leading side and a trailing side. The slider further includes opposing lateral sides extending between the leading and trailing sides. The slider further includes a transducer pad disposed adjacent the trailing side. The transducer pad includes a transducer for reading and writing data from and to the magnetic disk. The slider further includes a pair of pressurized side pads each respectively disposed laterally between the transducer pad and a respective one of the lateral sides. Each side pad includes a forward shallow etched surface, a trailing shallow etched surface extending from adjacent the trailing side toward the leading side, and a side pad air bearing surface disposed between and above the forward and trailing shallow etched surfaces.