Patent ID: 6587308
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disc head slider comprising:a slider body having a disc-opposing face with leading and trailing slider edges and a slider length measured between the leading and trailing slider edges; a bearing surface defined on the disc-opposing face; a recessed area formed within the disc-opposing face, which is recessed from the bearing surface; and a convergent channel recessed within the bearing surface and comprising a leading channel end open to fluid flow from the recessed area, channel side walls, a trailing channel end closed to the fluid flow, and a channel length measured between the leading and trailing channel ends, wherein the trailing channel end is located rearward of a midpoint along the slider length and the channel floor is vertically contoured relative to the bearing surface along at least a portion of the channel length and progressively decreases in depth along at least the portion of the channel length from the leading channel end toward the trailing channel end.