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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2010
Rohit P. Ambekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nghia Bach, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oscar J. Ruiz, San Jose, CA (US);
Rohit P. Ambekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nghia Bach, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oscar J. Ruiz, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A head slider for a disk drive storage device. In general, the head slider should fly at the target height above the disk without crashing onto the hard disk. The head slider has an outside flange that encloses a plateau and an inside flange that encloses a plateau. The two plateaus may have the same surface area or the outside plateau may have a greater surface area. Because of the design of the outside flange, the likelihood that the head slider will crash on the hard disk is reduced.