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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2004
Applicant:
Shoji Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Shoji Suzuki, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Komag, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 17/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A magnetic recording disk having a non laser zone texturing (LZT) band in the contact-start-stop (CSS) zone. The width of the non-LZT band in the CSS zone may be greater than the width of a read and/or write element of a head and less than the width of a center pad on the head in order to prevent contact between the read and/or write element and the CSS zone's textured surface. The width of the non-LZT band may also be designed to account for head skew angle and positioning error due to movement of a suspension arm supporting the head.