Patent ID: 7849585

Claim:
A method of forming a reinforced slider body for use in a recording head having a transducer that is bi-directionally movable with respect to a surface of a magnetic medium, the method comprising: defining in a surface of a wafer a plurality of dice lanes having side walls to delineate a plurality of slider bodies on the wafer, the side walls having an angled configuration with respect to the wafer surface; polishing the dice lanes such that the interface between the wafer surface and the side walls is rounded; implanting a substance into the dice lanes; applying a diamond-like carbon coating to the bottom surface and side walls of the dice lanes; forming a cavity portion in the wafer surface of the slider bodies; attaching a first segment having a plurality of toroidal coils to a second segment having a plurality of flexure beams to form a second wafer assembly; attaching the second wafer assembly to a slider body such that a cavity portion of the second segment cooperates with a cavity portion in the slider body to form a transducer cavity; vacuum attaching the slider body to a reference flat surface; and positioning a transducer body having a transducer in the transducer cavity using a touch sensor.