Method of manufacutring slider

Abstract

A slider manufacturing method of the invention comprises: providing a row bar constructed by a plurality of slider bodies which has a surface for forming air bearing surface; forming a plurality of cutting lines on the surface for forming air bearing surface of the row bar; forming a stress absorption region adjacent to the cut line in a cutting region defined by two adjacent cutting lines; grinding the surface for forming air bearing surface of the row bar; and cutting the row bar along the cutting lines to form a plurality of individual sliders. When the row bar is cut by a cutter into a plurality of individual sliders along the cutting lines, stress generated in the cutting region adjacent to cutting lines during cutting process is partly or fully absorbed by the stress absorption region, thus no clear edge jumps will form at the edges of the ABS of the slider after cutting process, and the risks of disk surface scratching by slider also being eliminated.

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