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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Weidong Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Hidekazu Kohira, Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Weidong Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Hidekazu Kohira, Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A head slider for a magnetic disk drive is provided. The head slider includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side of an air bearing surface. The head slider further includes a first recess on the air bearing surface of the head slider, the first recess defining a first rail proximate the inner diameter side and a second rail proximate the outer diameter side wherein the first rail and the second rail are higher with respect to the recess and are asymmetrical with respect to each other.