公开(公告)号：US10803886B1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US16234831

申请日：2018-12-28

申请人： Seagate Technology LLC

发明人： Declan Macken ,  Michael Thomas Johnson ,  Todd Michael Lammers ,  Kent Edward Bodurtha

IPC分类号： G11B5/48 ,  G11B5/012 ,  G11B5/31 ,  G11B5/00 ,  G11B5/60

摘要： An apparatus includes a slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording, the slider comprising an air bearing surface (ABS), a writer, a reader, and a plurality of electrical bond-pads. The apparatus also includes a first component situated at the ABS of the slider proximate the reader and operatively coupled to a first pair of the plurality of electrical bond-pads, the first component being a thermocouple configured to sense for a thermal aspect of a magnetic recording medium surface. According to aspects of the invention, the slider is configured to share at least one bond-pad by operatively coupling a second pair of the plurality of electrical bond-pads to a second component, and the slider is configured to selectively utilize the thermocouple and the second component.