Patent ID: 6246545
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A head slider provided with a rail on each side of a center line but on the same side of the head slider relative to a disk, said slider being floated over a disk by an air flow on said rails, a head for reading or recording information from/in said disk being mounted on one side of said center line, wherein:said rails are asymmetrically formed about the center line so that the side of the head slider on which said head is mounted floats over the disk at a level lower than that of the other side of the center line on which said head is not mounted,said rails extend longitudinally on opposite sides of the center line,said rail located on the side of the center line on which said head is mounted floats over the disk at a level lower than that of the rail located on the side of the center line on which said head is not mounted,the rail located on the side of the center line on which said head is mounted is smaller in width, as measured laterally, than the rail located on the side of the center line on which said head is not mounted, andsaid rails each having a cross-sectional shape in a direction perpendicular to the center line which is a parallelogram with no right angles.