Patent ID: 8014105

Claim:
A method for modifying the air bearing force of the trailing edge of a slider to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems comprising: providing a suspension for reaching over a disk; providing a slider having a read/write head element on a trailing edge (TE) portion, said slider coupled with said suspension, the read/write head element operating while remaining in contact with the disk over which the slider is flying while said disk is in motion; providing a shaped TE which minimizes the air bearing force at said TE portion of said slider, said minimizes of the air bearing force at the TE portion reducing a friction of the read/write element during contact with said disk, and a load and of the TE portion of the slider during contact with said disk to reduce slider bounce; and providing an off-center gimbal device coupled with said slider and said suspension, said off-center gimbal device coupled with said suspension and said slider away from the center of said slider and closer to said TE portion of said slider such that when said TE portion of said slider contacts a disk a bouncing motion of said TE with respect to said disk is reduced wherein said off-center gimbal device is moved approximately 20 percent of the distance between the center of the slider and the TE of the slider toward the TE of the slider.