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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;

Inventors:

Hamid Balamane, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Alexander Goncharov, San Jose, CA (US);

Vijay P. S. Rawat, San Jose, CA (US);

Matteo Staffaroni, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/39 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/39 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, according to one embodiment, includes a near field transducer having a conductive metal film and an aperture, and a magnetic lip adjacent the aperture. A back edge of the magnetic lip is positioned farther from a media facing surface than an upper portion of a back edge of the conductive metal film. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.


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