Patent ID: 7324306

Claim:
A disk drive slider, comprising: a slider body; an air bearing surface on the slider body having a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pair of lateral edges extending between the leading and trailing edges, and a base surface defined between the leading, trailing, and lateral edges; a leading edge pad formed on the base surface aligned with the leading edge and extending from the leading edge alongside but slightly offset from the lateral edges; intermediate pads formed on the leading edge pad near the leading edge; a trailing edge pad formed on the base surface adjacent to the trailing edge, the trailing edge pad comprising three trailing edge pads, two of which are very similar and are located adjacent to opposite corners of the trailing edge, said two trailing edge pads being tapered, streamlined shapes and being smaller than a third one of the trailing edge pads; and a concave pad on the third one of the trailing edge pads, the concave pad having a leading edge with a mild concavity with an aspect ratio in a range of approximately 0.1 to 0.8.