公开(公告)号：US11830530B1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17573313

申请日：2022-01-11

Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC

Inventor： Lihong Zhang ,  Xiong Liu ,  Yanming Tan

IPC: G11B5/60

CPC classification number: G11B5/6082

Abstract: A slider for use in a disk drive includes a substrate surface to be spaced from recording media surface within the disk drive, at least one read/write transducer having a transducer end surface adjacent and proximate to the substrate surface, a protrusion controller associated with the at least one read/write transducer. The transducer end surface includes a preformed protrusion extending generally in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface, the protrusion is substantially centered along the transducer end surface, and the protrusion formed to passively provide a consistently-positioned close-point to the recording media surface when the protrusion controller is active.