Patent ID: 6093083
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: B24B,Y10T

Abstract:
A process in the manufacture of disk drive sliders with read and write devices from a wafer on which a plurality of magneto-resistive read sensor blanks and write device blanks have been formed on a first surface of the wafer in rows, the first surface to become the back surfaces of the sliders formed therefrom, including:cutting the wafer perpendicular to the first surface into rows, each row containing a plurality of slider blanks with at least one write and read sensor blank on each slider blank so each row has generally parallel second and third surfaces generally perpendicular to the first surface, with the write and read blanks facing the second surface;mounting the third surface of a row to a first flat surface of a row carrier tool having an opposite second surface generally parallel to the first flat surface for mounting to a row bending tool;dicing each row into separate slider blanks to relieve residual stresses therein; andlapping the second surfaces of the slider blanks to trim the magneto-resistive elements of the read sensors and to form the slider surfaces that fly over the disk of the disk drive.