DocumentCode
945884
Title
An air bearing minimizing the effects of slider skew angle
Author
Clifford, George ; Henze, Dick
Author_Institution
Hewlett-Packard Lab., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Volume
25
Issue
5
fYear
1989
fDate
9/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
3713
Lastpage
3715
Abstract
A minislider incorporating a single transverse slot across both rails is presented which greatly reduces the effect of slider skew. The slots, in conjunction with wide rails, allow a slider mounted on a rotary actuator to access the entire disk at a spacing of 100 to 120 nm. Skew decreases the head-to-disk spacing of conventional minisliders and is a particular problem in disk drives equipped with rotary actuators as slider rail width is decreased. The flying characteristics of this slider are investigated by a computer simulation program and by measurements on actual sliders with a multichannel laser interferometer
Keywords
magnetic disc storage; magnetic heads; air bearing; computer simulation program; disk drives; flying characteristics; head-to-disk spacing; magnetic heads; minislider; multichannel laser interferometer; rotary actuators; slider skew angle; transverse slot; Computer simulation; Disk drives; Hydraulic actuators; Laboratories; Pneumatic actuators; Rails; Spinning; Steady-state;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9464
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/20.42410
Filename
42410
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