Patent ID: 7102856

Claim:
A head slider, comprising: a thin-film magnetic head including a magnetoresistive device for reproducing information and an electromagnetic transducer for recording information; a heater that generates heat when the heater is energized; a reproducing-bump, which connects the magnetoresistive device and a pad-forming surface; a recording-bump, which connects the electromagnetic transducer with the pad-forming surface; and a heater bump, which connects the heater with the pad forming surface, wherein at least one of the reproducing-bump, the recording-bump, and the heater bump comprises a bypass layer extending in a direction that crosses a direction in which the bump extends, a first bump portion positioned closer to the pad-forming surface than is the bypass layer, and a second bump portion positioned on an opposite side of the bypass layer relative to the first bump portion, the first bump portion and the second bump portion are displaced from each other in the direction in which the bypass layer extends.