Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a slider of a head includes a negative-pressure cavity defined by a recess formed in a disk-facing surface, a leading step portion which is situated on an upstream side of the negative-pressure cavity with respect to an airflow and projects from a bottom surface of the negative-pressure cavity, a trailing step portion which is provided on an outflow-side end portion of the facing surface on the downstream side of the negative-pressure cavity with respect to the airflow, projects from the bottom surface of the negative-pressure cavity, and constitutes a part of the facing surface, and a maximum-positive-pressure producing step portion which is spaced upstream from the trailing step portion with respect to the airflow, projects from the bottom surface of the negative-pressure cavity, and produces a maximum positive pressure. A head portion is provided on the trailing step portion.
Abstract:
A pair of side pads, which are arranged to face each other by having a negative pressure generating part in the direction orthogonal to an air flow direction of a slider therebetween, are made to have three or more steps, respectively. Of the respective surfaces having the plural steps, the surfaces having a highest height respectively are not subject to a milling, and the respective surfaces of having plural steps are made to gradually have a deeper cavity depth as the surface comes closer to the air inflow end. Further, it is also effective for improving the efficiency in positive pressure generation to surround the second side pad region partially by the region of the surface being not subject to the milling, and to surround the third side pad region partially by the second surface region.
Abstract:
A slider of a head has a negative-pressure cavity formed in a facing surface, a leading step portion and a leading pad which protrude from the facing surface and are situated on the upstream side of the negative-pressure cavity with respect to an airflow, and a trailing step portion and a trailing pad which protrude from the facing surface and are situated on the downstream side of the negative-pressure cavity with respect to the airflow. The surface area of the trailing pad accounts for 1.5% or more of the area of the disk facing surface of the slider, and at least the surface of the trailing pad is microtexured. The surface roughness of a recording medium that faces the slider is 0.8 nm or less in terms of Ra, and the head suspension applies a head load of 1 gf or more to the head.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method of a magnetic head slider 5 is to perform milling processes for at least three times to a slider main body 50 to form a flying surface, and thereby, the milling process is performed at variety of depths more than the number of milling processes. These three times milling process composed of: for example, a first milling processes forming a first mask on the slider main body 50 and performing a milling at a first depth; a second milling process changing the first mask to a second mask and performing the milling at a second depth, after the first milling process; and a third milling process changing the second mask to a third mask and performing the milling at a third depth, after the second milling process. Namely, a cycle of the masking, the milling, and a removal of the mask is performed three cycles, and thereby, milling surfaces with at least four varieties of heights or more can be formed easily.