Method and apparatus for utilizing an off-center gimbal to...

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Head mounting – Disk record

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C360S246200, C360S234600, C360S236500, C360S245300

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07345850

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for utilizing an off-center gimbal to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A slider having a read/write head element on a trailing edge (TE) portion is also provided, the slider coupled with the suspension. In addition, an off-center gimbal device is coupled with the slider and the suspension away from the center of the slider and closer to the TE portion of the slider such that when the TE portion of the slider contacts a disk a bouncing motion of the TE with respect to the disk is reduced.

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IEEE Transactions on Magnetics vol. 26, Issue 5, Sep. 1990 p. 2478-83.

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