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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2005
Michael Baldwinson, San Jose, CA (US);
David Rutherford, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Baldwinson, San Jose, CA (US);
David Rutherford, San Jose, CA (US);
Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An embodiment of a slider in accordance with the present invention for use in a hard disk drive having a rotatable disk can include a plurality of rails arranged across a surface of the slider such that an air bearing is formed when the slider is positioned over the disk and the disk is rotated such that the slider traverse a servo wedge of the disk. The surface of the slider further includes a trailing pad arranged near a trailing edge of the surface of the slider such that when the slider traverses debris having a height higher than minimum height, the air bearing increases such that the slider is not in communicative proximity with the disk for a time at least as long as a time for the slider to traverse the servo wedge.