Patent ID: 7463452

Claim:
A flying head slider, comprising: a slider body facing a disk; a leading pad to generate positive pressure, the leading pad arranged on an air inflow side of the slider body, the leading pad including a first surface; a trailing pad to generate positive pressure, the trailing pad arranged on an air outflow side of the slider body, the trailing pad including a second surface; a pair of side pads to generate positive pressure, the pair of side pads arranged on the slider body in a direction orthogonal to an airflow direction, each of the pair of side pads including third, fourth, and fifth surfaces; and a cavity area to generate negative pressure, the cavity area surrounded by the leading pad, the trailing pad, and the pair of side pads on the slider body, and including a sixth surface, wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces are substantially parallel to each other, the first, second, and the third surfaces have substantially the same depths and are closer to the disk than each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces, wherein said fourth and fifth surfaces are at different depths, and the sixth surface is deeper than each of the first, second. third, fourth, and fifth surfaces.