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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Douglas J. Krajnovich, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Douglas J. Krajnovich, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A disk drive includes a rotatable storage disk, a suspension, and a slider assembly. The slider assembly includes a slider body, a read/write head that magnetically interacts with the storage disk, and a slider mover. The slider body is secured to the suspension in a fashion that allows the slider body to roll. The slider mover selectively rolls the slider body in a controlled fashion. With this design, the slider mover selectively rolls the slider body to control a head-to-disk spacing of the read/write head. Further, the slider body can have a roll axis and the read/write head and the slider mover can be positioned on opposite sides of the roll axis.