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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2006
Applicants:
Damaris Davis, Campbell, CA (US);
Hardayal S. Gill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kenneth D. Mackay, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiao Z. Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Damaris Davis, Campbell, CA (US);
Hardayal S. Gill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kenneth D. MacKay, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiao Z. Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/127 (2006.01); H04R 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to manufacturing pre-sliders by annealing to saturation. According to one embodiment, pre-sliders are lapped to prepare for air bearing surfaces for the pre-sliders. The pre-sliders are annealed to saturation to level off the amount of overcoat expansion for the pre-sliders.