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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:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Xiaoping Bian, Saratoga, CA (US);
Qing Dai, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan C. Lam, San Jose, CA (US);
Barry C. Stipe, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 11/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/31 (2006.01); G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 11/105 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/314 (2013.01); G11B 5/6088 (2013.01); G11B 11/1051 (2013.01); G11B 11/10506 (2013.01); G11B 11/10534 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, according to one embodiment, includes a near field transducer; an adhesion layer on a media facing side of the near field transducer, the adhesion layer comprising Ni and Cr; and a protective layer on a media facing side of the adhesion layer. Other systems and methods are described in additional embodiments.