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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:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2004
Applicants:
Donald Ray Gillis, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vedantham Raman, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Reinhard F. Wolter, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Donald Ray Gillis, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vedantham Raman, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Reinhard F. Wolter, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global StorageTechnologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/706 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A magnetic disk having a low surface microwaviness at a scale of about 200 microns and higher, and a high surface roughness at a scale of less than about a length of a pad of a slider for writing to the disk.