Method for reducing PSA tilt in Femto format sliders through increased adhesive area

Magnetic disk unit and magnetic head slider

Magnetic head slider with optimized flying attitude

Manufacturing method of slider and device for manufacturing slider

Magnetic head slider with shock absorption layer and manufacturing the same

Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted

Device, apparatus and method for removing particulate contamination from the trailing edge of a hard disk drive air bearing

Read-write head with integrated microactuator

Head slider having a leading pad inlet edge with inlet recesses, head suspension assembly, and disk device provided with the same

IMPROVED PLANARIZATION PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CARRIERS WITH LOW STEP HEIGHT

Slider and manufacturing method thereof, head gimbal assembly, disk drive with same

Slider design for high fly write immunity

Magnetic head and manufacturing method of the same

Method to improve crown sigma control of the slider in a hard disk drive

Silicon-made magnetic head slider and method of producing the same

Method and apparatus for modifying the air bearing force of the trailing edge of a slider to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems

Magnetic head slider having stepped surfaces

Method and apparatus for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive

Servo track write at low pressure using pressure insensitive air bearing surface

Method and apparatus for forming surface shape, method and apparatus for forming flying surface shape of magnetic head

Method and apparatus for forming surface shape, method and apparatus for forming flying surface shape of magnetic head

Magnetic head slider and disk drive with reduced damage to recording medium

Slider for high density magnetic recording

Head slider having a flat first step and a second flat step with a groove therein, and disk drive employing the head slider

Magnetic head slider with reduced bearing surface area and magnetic disk drive

Magnetic disk drive with flying height control system

Compact magnetic head slider with reduced bearing surfaces

Slider having recessed corner features

Disk device

Head, head suspension assembly, and disk device provided with the same

Head shock resistance and head load/unload protection for reducing disk errors and defects, and enhancing data integrity of disk drives

Head shock resistance and head load/unload protection for reducing disk errors and defects, and enhancing data integrity of disk drives

Slider, manufacturing method thereof, and head suspension assembly with the same

Silicon-made magnetic head slider

Disk drive with negative-pitch slider having protrusion pad contacting the disk when the disk is rotating at operating speed

Magnetic head assembly and magnetic disc device

Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded

Magnetic disk drive

Thin film magnetic head with thermal flying height control pads located at both ends of all pads series on slider side plane

Magnetic head assembly, magnetic disk drive and posture control method for magnetic head slider

Flying height compensation for up/down bit error rate trend difference

Magnetic head slider and method of fabricating magnetic head slider

Method to eliminate defects on the periphery of a slider due to conventional machining processes

Method and apparatus for providing an air bearing pad having improved roll angle sigma

Head, head suspension assembly, and disc device provided with the same

Method and apparatus for providing a three stepped air bearing having a funnel structure for controlling air flow to improve fly height performance

Head slider and disk drive employing same head slider, and method for providing water repellent treatment to same head slider

Negative pressure type head slider and disk drive

Slider and rotating disk type storage device

Negative pressure type head slider and disk drive

Disk device and slider

Magnetic head device

Magnetic disk device and magnetic head slider

Magnetic head with air bearing surface protection film

Magnetic recording device having a head slider utilizing a water-repellant resin lubricant having specified surface tension properties

Slider having rounded corners and edges, and method for producing the same

Method to eliminate defects on the periphery of a slider due to conventional machining processes

Magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk device in which the slider is mounted

Sliders bonded by a debondable encapsulant comprising different polymers formed via in situ polymerization

Air-bearing design with particle rejection features

Slider for high density magnetic recording

Manufacturing method of magnetic head slider, magnetic head slider and magnetic device

Aerodynamic magnetic head slider and magnetic disk drive

Head slider for disk apparatus

Flying head slider and magnetic disk apparatus, having a pair of side pads with each side pad having plural surfaces spaced at different depths

Method and apparatus supporting a slider having multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket for a hard disk drive

Slider, head assembly and disk apparatus

Magnetic disk apparatus with heating device and magnetic head slider used therefor

Slider with air bearing surface with selected distances between recording/reproducing element and rear-rail for reducing variation in flying height

Magnetic head slider

Slider having cavity floor with differing depths

Air bearing slider for disk drive and suspension assembly including the air bearing slider

Magnetic head slider with groove formed in reduced-width portion of trailing pad between head and trailing edge

Control of twist, crown and camber for sliders using location sensitive scribing

Magnetic head substrate material, magnetic head substrate, head slider, and method of making magnetic head substrate

Head slider having groove on medium-opposed surface and recording medium drive employing the same

Method of manufacturing slider of thin-film magnetic head

Head slider, magnetic storage apparatus and head slider producing method

Minimized skew angle slider

Head slider with positive dynamic pressure generating section

Precise positioning actuator for head element and head device with the actuator

Magnetic head slider with side pads which each have a width W and a length L, wherein W>L

Disk drive, head slider, and head supporting device

Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head

Magnetic head supporting mechanism

Air bearing sliders with a pressure cavity or cavities

Method and mechanism of the suspension resonance optimization for the hard disk driver

Floating slider, and magneto-optical storage device comprising it

In-contact magnetic head slider with multiple surface levels for creating multiple positive and negative pressure regions

Airflow shroud for HDD tracking microactuator

Rotary disk storage device and method

Storage device slider with sacrificial lapping extension

Method for manufacturing a magnetic head

Head slider having extension rails to provide uniform flotation and magnetic disk device including the same

Discrete track magnetic recording medium with lift-adjusting surface

Ultra-low flying height slider design

Flying head slider and manufacturing method of the head slider

Storage device slider with sacrificial lapping extension

Slider air bearing designs with side blocker for contamination robustness

Thermally-assisted magnetic recording (TAMR) head with magnetic assist current

Mounting supports that create a bond pad gap for a hard disk slider

Segmented front bar for particle robustness

Slider air bearing design with roughened leading edge shallow step for enhanced particle robustness

Slider air bearing designs with higher pressure and higher thermal flying height (TFC) efficiency

Two layer leading shield design with non-conformal shapes for magnetic recording heads

Skew-independent close-point transducers

Recording head with focusing structure

Mounting supports that create a bond pad gap for a hard disk slider

Air-bearing surface (ABS) design with side flow blocker for mitigating lube and hydrocarbon accumulation in hard disk drives (HDD)

Recording head with writer HMS less than reader HMS

Near-field transducer with Au nano rod

Magnetic head and disk device with heat actuators

Reflective heatsink structures for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads

Alternative designs for magnetic recording assisted by two spin hall effect (SHE) layers in the write gap

Alternative designs for magnetic recording assisted by a single spin hall effect (SHE) layer in the write gap

Three terminal magnetic recording head

Near-field transducer with thermally robust peg embedded into an enlarged portion

Spin orbital torque via spin hall effect based energy assisted magnetic recording

Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer with narrow high moment trailing shield

Magnetic heads for use in different fluid atmospheres, and related methods

Advanced air bearing slider

Hard disk drive head assembly with tilt-preventing standoff formed on flexure cover beneath slider

Magnetic recording assisted by two spin hall effect (SHE) layers in the write gap

Air-bearing surface designs with a curved trailing air flow dam

Current-assisted magnetic recording write head with wide conductive element in the write gap

High passive stiffness and low active pressure air bearing feature

Optimization of high damping shield geometry in perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer

Magnetic head with high-frequency oscillating element and disk device comprising the same

Magnetic flux guiding device with antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) spin polarizer in assisted writing application

Slider with multiple-channel air-bearing surface

Methods of protecting write pole from corrosion in HAMR head

Split contact sensor for a heat-assisted magnetic recording slider

High damping shield with low magnetic moment in perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer

Magnetic write head with a tapered return pole

Locating electrical contact pads on a slider body, and related row bars that include such slider bodies

Dual write heater for slider surface topography control in double perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writers

Transducing head with a surface charged reader

Near-field transducer having edges aligned with waveguide core

Automated and accurate high-throughput slider-level flatness inspection

Near-field transducer with thermally robust peg embedded into an enlarged portion

Slider air-bearing surface designs with side particle-trapping structures

Slider air-bearing surface designs with segmented particle-trapping structures

Temperature control in a transducing head

Lateral spin valve reader with vertically-integrated two-dimensional semiconducting channel

Light source unit and thermally-assisted magnetic head

Near-field transducer utilizing angled reflectors

Sliders having features in the mid gap

Near field transducers (NFTS) including a protective layer and methods of forming

Magnetic recording head with spin torque oscillator, head gimbal assembly and magnetic recording apparatus

Head-disk contact detection using a thermal sensor for modulation air bearings

Non-contact laser-induced protrusion measurement apparatus and method

Passivated nitrogenated diamond-like carbon layer and method for passivating it

ABS design with soft bumper pads (SBP) for mitigating media damage and thermal erasure in hard disk drives (HDD)

Methods of forming an air bearing surface on a slider and related sliders

Multi-purpose resistive sensor for a heat-assisted magnetic recording device

Sliders having features in the mid gap

Slider air-bearing surface designs with efficiency-flattening hole

Lateral spin valve reader with vertically-integrated two-dimensional semiconducting channel

Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head with multiple layer trailing shield

Plasmon generator with metallic waveguide blocker for TAMR

Free layer only magnetic reader that may have a reduced shield-to-shield spacing and a multilayer side bias

Method of forming one or more metal and/or metal alloy layers in processes for making transducers in sliders, and related sliders

Data reader shield seed buffer

Data writer gap material with decreased protrusion

Near field transducers (NFTs) including a protective layer and methods of forming

Magnetic recording apparatus having a recessed additional pole segment

Magnetic recording-reproducing head having different sections with different functions including an erase function

Non-contact laser-induced protrusion measurement apparatus and method

Data reader with pinned front shield

Magnetic head having a reader overcoat with DLC and a recessed writer overcoat without DLC

Thermal assisted magnetic recording light delivery waveguide circuit for reduced stray light induced writer protrusion

Self-assembled monolayer to adjust fly height

Heat assisted magnetic recording write apparatus having a dielectric gap

Method and system for providing a HAMR writer having improved optical efficiency

Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write shield design with minimized wide adjacent track erasure (WATE)

Method for fabricating a magnetic write pole having an improved sidewall angle profile

Magnetic reader having a nonmagnetic insertion layer for the pinning layer

Method for fabricating a magnetic recording device having a high aspect ratio structure

Shingle magnetic writer having a low sidewall angle pole

PP3 shape designs for shield domain control to improve either skip track erasure (STE) or write performance for perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)

Method and system for providing a read transducer having a dual free layer

Magnetic recording writer with a composite main pole

Magnetic writer having a gradient in saturation magnetization of the shields and return pole

System and method for magnetic transducers having multiple sensors and AFC shields

Slider back side etching to increase shear strength between suspension and slider

Patterned metal layer to control solder connection between laser and submount in a magnetic head

Air bearing surface design with extreme particle trapping holes for improving HDD particle robustnes

Multi step lube blocking air bearing area configuration

Air bearing area configuration for contaminating particle removal

Magnetic writer having a gradient in saturation magnetization of the shields

Magnetic writer having a dual side gap

Sensor with positive coupling between dual ferromagnetic free layer laminates

Air bearing area configuration for reducing flying height hump across a stroke

Slider having shock and particle resistance

Head slider having improved air bearing compliance and higher actuation efficiency

Electrical lapping guide for dimensional control of back side of heat assisted magnetic recording device

Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head

Magnetic recording writer having a main pole with multiple flare angles