Patent ID: 8116037
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk drive comprising: a disk configured to rotate; and a head-slider configured to fly in proximity with a recording surface of said disk, said head-slider comprising: wherein said pad surface of said outer trailing-edge pad further comprises a straight outer edge slanting outward in said direction from an inflow side toward an outflow side and said angle of said outer edge with respect to said longitudinal direction of said head-slider is β wherein said pad surface of said inner trailing-edge pad further comprises a straight inner edge slanting inward in said direction from an inflow side toward an outflow side and said angle of said inner edge with respect to said longitudinal direction of said head-slider is β wherein, for absolute values of skew angles at an outermost data track position and an innermost data track position on said disk that are denoted by α