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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Hiroshi Agari, Odawara, JP;
Lee Kevin Dorius, San Jose, CA (US);
Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Ishioka, JP;
Hiroshi Agari, Odawara, JP;
Lee Kevin Dorius, San Jose, CA (US);
Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Ishioka, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B. V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A magnetic head slider suitable for a disk drive measuring 1.8 inches or less in disk size incorporates preventive measures against the decreases in lifting force that occur in small sliders with a slider width of 0.8 mm or less. The present invention improves the inclination margins of the flying slider in a rolling direction at the lowest flying point, and achieves low flying height and stable flying. The slider is constructed with stepped surfaces on the slider's leading-side flying surface formed up of shallow-grooved surfaces and a deep-grooved surface so that a trailing-side width Wbetween the stepped surfaces is smaller than a leading-side width W