| US3855625A
              (en)
            
            * | 1973-12-19 | 1974-12-17 | Ibm | Magnetic head slider assembly | 
        
          | US3961372A
              (en)
            
            * | 1974-07-05 | 1976-06-01 | International Business Machines Corporation | Magnetic tape transport with slotted rotating head | 
        
          | US3975770A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-02-21 | 1976-08-17 | Digital Equipment Corporation | Transducer assembly for a disc drive | 
        
          | US3956771A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-03-03 | 1976-05-11 | Honeywell Information Systems, Inc. | Magnetic transducer with side mounted ferrite core and method of making the same | 
        
          | JPS51118419A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-04-11 | 1976-10-18 | Hitachi Ltd | Magnetic head | 
        
          | US3990106A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-05-30 | 1976-11-02 | Nippon Hoso Kyokai | Dynamic negative pressure type floating head system | 
        
          | JPS5227230U
              (OSRAM)
            
            * | 1975-08-18 | 1977-02-25 |  |  | 
        
          | JPS5233704A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-09-10 | 1977-03-15 | Hitachi Ltd | Method of evaluating boundary lublication condition of magnetic disks | 
        
          | JPS5233703A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-09-10 | 1977-03-15 | Hitachi Ltd | Method of evaluating boundary lubrication conditions of magnetic disk | 
        
          | JPS5235601A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-09-16 | 1977-03-18 | Hitachi Ltd | Evaluation method for lubricants in boundary lubricatin area | 
        
          | US4098032A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-10-20 | 1978-07-04 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method of forming air bearing rails of head assemblies | 
        
          | JPS5273715A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-12-17 | 1977-06-21 | Hitachi Ltd | Floating type magnetic head | 
        
          | JPS5282327A
              (en)
            
            * | 1975-12-29 | 1977-07-09 | Hitachi Ltd | Floating type magnetic head | 
        
          | US4130847A
              (en)
            
            * | 1977-03-31 | 1978-12-19 | International Business Machines Corporation | Corrosion resistant thin film head assembly and method for making | 
        
          | US4321641A
              (en)
            
            * | 1977-09-02 | 1982-03-23 | Magnex Corporation | Thin film magnetic recording heads | 
        
          | US4204235A
              (en)
            
            * | 1977-10-18 | 1980-05-20 | Stollorz Herbert R | Support arm assembly for loading/unloading and applying a force on a flying head | 
        
          | FR2409571A1
              (fr)
            
            * | 1977-11-18 | 1979-06-15 | Cii Honeywell Bull | Plate-forme comportant au moins un transducteur magnetique de lecture/ecriture d'un support d'information | 
        
          | JPS54111812A
              (en)
            
            * | 1978-02-21 | 1979-09-01 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp | Floating head device | 
        
          | US4214287A
              (en)
            
            * | 1978-07-20 | 1980-07-22 | Burroughs Corporation | Novel TSF head pair for dual recording on flexible disks | 
        
          | US4191980A
              (en)
            
            * | 1978-12-29 | 1980-03-04 | International Business Machines Corporation | Transducers with tapered edge profiles and assembly thereof | 
        
          | US4255772A
              (en)
            
            * | 1979-06-29 | 1981-03-10 | International Business Machines Corporation | Read/write magnetic head assembly with magnetoresistive sensor | 
        
          | US4352134A
              (en)
            
            * | 1979-11-19 | 1982-09-28 | International Business Machines Corporation | Magnetic head assembly with corrosion resistant conductive wire | 
        
          | US4285019A
              (en)
            
            * | 1980-03-10 | 1981-08-18 | Memorex Corporation | Contoured magnetic recording head/slider assembly | 
        
          | US4333229A
              (en)
            
            * | 1980-07-21 | 1982-06-08 | Memorex Corporation | Method of manufacturing thin film magnetic head/slider combination | 
        
          | US4419705A
              (en)
            
            * | 1981-05-01 | 1983-12-06 | Iomega Corporation | Ferrite beveled core for magnetic head | 
        
          | US4823216A
              (en)
            
            * | 1987-10-23 | 1989-04-18 | Applied Magnetics Corporation | Microminimonolithic magnetic head slider | 
        
          | US4972279A
              (en)
            
            * | 1981-10-23 | 1990-11-20 | Applied Magnetics Corporation | Microminimonolithic magnetic head slider | 
        
          | JPS624904Y2
              (OSRAM)
            
            * | 1982-03-10 | 1987-02-04 |  |  | 
        
          | JPS5960760A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1982-09-30 | 1984-04-06 | Toshiba Corp | 浮動ヘツドスライダ | 
        
          | US4555739A
              (en)
            
            * | 1982-11-26 | 1985-11-26 | International Business Machines Corporation | Semi self-loading ferrite head | 
        
          | CA1215778A
              (en)
            
            * | 1983-05-19 | 1986-12-23 | James K. Knudsen | Transducer-slider assembly having contoured air-  bearing surface | 
        
          | JPS6066403A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1983-09-21 | 1985-04-16 | Hitachi Metals Ltd | 薄膜磁気ヘッド用セラミックス基板 | 
        
          | JPS60131613A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1983-12-20 | 1985-07-13 | Alps Electric Co Ltd | 浮動磁気ヘツド | 
        
          | US4636894A
              (en)
            
            * | 1984-03-12 | 1987-01-13 | Censtor Corp. | Recording head slider assembly | 
        
          | JPS60150615U
              (ja)
            
            * | 1984-03-14 | 1985-10-07 | シチズン時計株式会社 | 磁気記録ヘツド | 
        
          | JPS6174103A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1984-09-20 | 1986-04-16 | Hitachi Metals Ltd | 磁気記録装置 | 
        
          | US4673996B1
              (en)
            
            * | 1985-04-29 | 1997-02-04 | James W White | Magnetic head air bearing slider assembly utilizing transverse pressurization contours | 
        
          | EP0218811B1
              (en)
            
            * | 1985-07-19 | 1991-05-29 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Magnetic head slider assembly | 
        
          | DE3630841A1
              (de)
            
            * | 1985-09-13 | 1987-03-26 | Hitachi Metals Ltd | Fliegender magnetkopf | 
        
          | DE3669938D1
              (de)
            
            * | 1986-01-06 | 1990-05-03 | Unisys Corp | Ebenes gleitstueck mit anschraegung. | 
        
          | US4734803A
              (en)
            
            * | 1986-03-20 | 1988-03-29 | International Business Machines | Magnetic head air bearing slider | 
        
          | JPH0770036B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1986-09-17 | 1995-07-31 | 株式会社日立製作所 | 浮動形磁気ヘツドおよびその製造方法 | 
        
          | JPS63177382A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1987-01-19 | 1988-07-21 | Nec Corp | デイスク装置 | 
        
          | JPS63197016A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1987-02-12 | 1988-08-15 | Nec Corp | 磁気ヘツド組立体 | 
        
          | JPH06101090B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1988-01-28 | 1994-12-12 | 日立金属株式会社 | 浮上型複合磁気ヘッド | 
        
          | US5016129A
              (en)
            
            * | 1988-03-29 | 1991-05-14 | Hitachi Metals, Ltd. | Flying-type composite magnetic head with appropriate bonding glasses and method of producing same | 
        
          | JPH0827898B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1988-03-29 | 1996-03-21 | 日立金属株式会社 | 浮上型複合磁気ヘッド及びその磁気コア | 
        
          | US5124865A
              (en)
            
            * | 1988-03-31 | 1992-06-23 | Applied Magnetics Corporation | Microminimonolithic magnetic head slider having vertically extending slots to reduce flux leakage losses | 
        
          | US5081553A
              (en)
            
            * | 1988-03-31 | 1992-01-14 | Applied Magnetics Corporation | Combination of elongated load arm and microminimonolithic head slider | 
        
          | US4894740A
              (en)
            
            * | 1988-09-28 | 1990-01-16 | International Business Machines Corporation | Magnetic head air bearing slider | 
        
          | US5245487A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-01-27 | 1993-09-14 | International Business Machines Corporation | Transducer head for rigid disk drive | 
        
          | JP2765952B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1989-05-29 | 1998-06-18 | 株式会社日立製作所 | 浮動ヘツドスライダ | 
        
          | US5251083A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-05-29 | 1993-10-05 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Flying head slider and method of producing the same | 
        
          | US5287239A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-07-05 | 1994-02-15 | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | Magnetic head using high saturated magnetic flux density film and manufacturing method thereof | 
        
          | US5142424A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-07-12 | 1992-08-25 | Yotaro Hatamura | Floatable information-reading head support configured to prevent forward pitch | 
        
          | JP2893597B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1989-09-08 | 1999-05-24 | ティーディーケイ株式会社 | 磁気ヘッドの製造方法 | 
        
          | US5233492A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-11-14 | 1993-08-03 | Hitachi Metals, Ltd. | Flying type composite magnetic head having Mn-Zn ferrite core | 
        
          | US5023738A
              (en)
            
            * | 1989-12-18 | 1991-06-11 | Seagate Technology, Inc. | Corrosion resistant magnetic recording read | 
        
          | JPH0589445A
              (ja)
            
            * | 1991-09-27 | 1993-04-09 | Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd | 浮動型磁気ヘツド | 
        
          | US5287235A
              (en)
            
            * | 1991-10-28 | 1994-02-15 | International Business Machines Corporation | Slider air bearing surface with angled rail configuration | 
        
          | US5452151A
              (en)
            
            * | 1992-05-29 | 1995-09-19 | J. Money & Associates, Inc. | Data access module | 
        
          | JP3478556B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1993-03-18 | 2003-12-15 | 松下電器産業株式会社 | 磁気ヘッドスライダ | 
        
          | US5654853A
              (en)
            
            * | 1994-02-04 | 1997-08-05 | Seagate Technology, Inc. | Disc storage device having a magnetic head air bearing slider configuration for reduced disc overhead | 
        
          | JP3139595B2
              (ja)
            
            * | 1994-04-15 | 2001-03-05 | ティーディーケイ株式会社 | 磁気ヘッド、磁気記録再生装置及び磁気ヘッド製造方法 | 
        
          | US5530604A
              (en) | 1994-05-19 | 1996-06-25 | International Business Machines Corporation | Electrical connection and slider-suspension assembly having an improved electrical connection | 
        
          | US5516323A
              (en)
            
            * | 1994-06-15 | 1996-05-14 | Sunward Technologies, Inc. | Method and apparatus for blending air bearing sliders | 
        
          | US5841608A
              (en)
            
            * | 1994-08-30 | 1998-11-24 | Fujitsu Limited | Head slider with projections arranged on rails thereof | 
        
          | US5661896A
              (en)
            
            * | 1995-05-19 | 1997-09-02 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method of manufacturing a termination pad manipulator for a laminated suspension in a data storage system | 
        
          | US5608591A
              (en)
            
            * | 1995-06-09 | 1997-03-04 | International Business Machines Corporation | Integrated head-electronics interconnection suspension for a data recording disk drive | 
        
          | JP3292296B2
              (ja) | 1997-03-25 | 2002-06-17 | ティーディーケイ株式会社 | スライダ、ヘッド、ヘッド装置及び記録再生装置 | 
        
          | USD475716S1
              (en) | 1997-03-25 | 2003-06-10 | Tdk Corporation | Combined slider and head for reading or writing information on a disk | 
        
          | US6239951B1
              (en)
            
            * | 1997-09-22 | 2001-05-29 | Seagate Technology, Llc | Air bearing slider with increased speed sensitivity | 
        
          | US6330133B1
              (en) | 1999-04-22 | 2001-12-11 | International Business Machines Corporation | Trailing edge rail shaping | 
        
          | US7193805B1
              (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2007-03-20 | Maxtor Corporation | Flying-type disk drive slider with micropad | 
        
          | US6707631B1
              (en) | 2000-03-20 | 2004-03-16 | Maxtor Corporation | Flying-type disk drive slider with wear pad | 
        
          | US6608735B1
              (en) | 2000-10-04 | 2003-08-19 | Seagate Technology Llc | Asymmetric tapered air bearing slider | 
        
          | US6822820B1
              (en) | 2000-10-19 | 2004-11-23 | International Business Machines Corporation | Apparatus for detecting damage to the transducer head and/or tape guide of an interactive media device | 
        
          | US6657806B1
              (en) | 2000-10-19 | 2003-12-02 | International Business Machines Corporation | Method for detecting damage to the transducer head and/or tape guide of an interactive media device | 
        
          | US6680821B2
              (en) | 2001-04-18 | 2004-01-20 | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, The Netherlands B.V. | Slider air bearing surface having improved fly height profile characteristics | 
        
          | US6674611B2
              (en) | 2002-01-04 | 2004-01-06 | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, The Netherlands B.V. | Air bearing design producing steeper ramp profile near the laser texture zone | 
        
          | US6776690B2
              (en)
            
            * | 2002-08-19 | 2004-08-17 | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V. | Storage device slider with sacrificial lapping extension |