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Head slider with projections arranged on rails thereof

US5841608A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 30, 1995
Grant dateNov 24, 1998
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Expiry dateAug 30, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B23/507
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The head slider has a substrate with a transducer on an outflow end of the substrate and rail planes, facing a disk, formed along sides and a front of the substrate. In addition, projections extend from the rail planes toward the disk. Two projections are near the outflow end of the substrate while one projection is near the inflow end of the substrate.

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