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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:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Applicants:
Robert Michael Crone, Faribault, MN (US);
Gordon James Smith, Rochester, MN (US);
Wing Tsang Tang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Robert Michael Crone, Faribault, MN (US);
Gordon James Smith, Rochester, MN (US);
Wing Tsang Tang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/21 (2006.01); G11B 17/32 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A slider for a disk drive has an air bearing surface that opposes a rotatable disk of recordable media. The air bearing surface includes one or more interior cavities to reduce van der Waals and electrostatic forces that attract the slider to the disk.