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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2005
Walton Fong, San Jose, CA (US);
Donald R. Gillis, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mike Suk, San Jose, CA (US);
Walton Fong, San Jose, CA (US);
Donald R. Gillis, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mike Suk, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for utilizing an off-center gimbal to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A slider having a read/write head element on a trailing edge (TE) portion is also provided, the slider coupled with the suspension. In addition, an off-center gimbal device is coupled with the slider and the suspension away from the center of the slider and closer to the TE portion of the slider such that when the TE portion of the slider contacts a disk a bouncing motion of the TE with respect to the disk is reduced.