Patent ID: 9472213
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a module having a substrate, read and write transducers positioned towards a media facing side of the module, and a closure; wherein the read and write transducers are selected from a group consisting of piggyback read-write transducers, merged read-write transducers, and interleaved read and write transducers; wherein a media-facing side of the closure and the media facing side of the substrate extend along a common plane; wherein the write transducers include write poles having media facing sides, wherein the media facing sides of the write poles are recessed from greater than 0 to 7 nm from the plane; wherein the read transducers each have at least one shield, wherein a media facing side of the at least one shield is more recessed from the plane than the write poles.