Magnetic head with a slider and a gimbal suspension structuring flexure
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorMitsuru Watanabe
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Abstract
A magnetic head is provided that is formed by fixedly bonding a slider having a thin-film magnetic element on a flexure formed of metallic material which constitutes a gimbal suspension. The slider includes electrodes conducted to the thin-film magnetic head on an end surface thereof on a trailing side which is orthogonal to the recording-medium-opposed surface. The flexure has independent spacer projections. The slider and the flexure are bonded by an adhesive agent applied to bonding areas on end surfaces of a pair of spacer projections positioned in the vicinity of the end surface on the trailing side out of the spacer projections.
Claims6
A magnetic head comprising a slider having a thin-film magnetic element fixedly bonded to a flexure formed of metallic material constituting a gimbal suspension, wherein
- the slider comprises a plurality of electrodes that are conducted to the thin-film magnetic element on an end surface thereof on a trailing side orthogonal to a recording-medium-opposed surface, and
- the slider and the flexure are bonded to the slider on a side closer to the end surface on the trailing side having the electrodes thereon with respect to a center of a plane thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.