HEAD SLIDER AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE WITH HEAD SLIDER
A head slider includes a slider that is disposed at a tip of a supporting member, floats with an air flow occurring due to rotation of a storage medium, and has a medium facing surface onto which a water-repellent material is applied, with an area near the magnetic head being exposed; and a magnetic head that is disposed at an air outflow end side of the slider and has a recording element and a reproducing element.
1 . A head slider comprising:
a slider that is disposed at a tip of a supporting member, floats with an air flow occurring due to rotation of a storage medium, and has a medium facing surface onto which a water-repellent material is applied, with an area near the magnetic head being exposed; and
a magnetic head that is disposed at an air outflow end side of the slider and has a recording element and a reproducing element.
2 . The head slider according to claim 1 , wherein
a distance from a position on an air inflow end side near the magnetic head to an air outflow end side of the slider is represented by a value obtained by dividing a film thickness of the water-repellent material by a tangent of a pitch angle when the slider floats.
3 . The head slider according to claim 1 , wherein
the water-repellant material is water-repellant resin.
4 . The head slider according to claim 1 , wherein
the water-repellant material is a chemical absorption layer formed by a chemical reaction between the water-repellant resin and the medium facing surface of the slider.
5 . A magnetic storage device comprising:
a storage medium;
a slider that is disposed at a tip of a supporting member, floats with an air flow occurring due to rotation of a storage medium, and has a medium facing surface onto which a water-repellent material is applied, with an area near the magnetic head being exposed;
a magnetic head that is disposed at an air outflow end side of the slider and has a recording element and a reproducing element; and
a signal processing board that processes a reproducing signal and a recording signal for reproducing and recording information by the storage medium and the magnetic head.
6 . A head-slider manufacturing method of manufacturing a head slider with a magnetic head having a recording element and a reproducing element to cause the magnetic head to float over a storage medium, the method comprising:
forming a lubricating layer on a medium facing surface of the head slider;
irradiating the lubricating layer formed in the forming with a high energy beam except a portion near the magnetic head;
cleaning the lubricating layer irradiated with the high energy beam in the irradiating by using a solvent that can solve a lubricating agent that forms the lubricating layer.
7 . The head-slider manufacturing method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
forming a resist on a portion near the magnetic head of a medium facing surface of the lubricating layer prior to the irradiating, and
removing the resist after the irradiating.
8 . The head-slider manufacturing method according to claim 6 , wherein
in the irradiating, only a portion of the lubricating layer formed in the forming except the portion near the magnetic head is irradiated with the high energy beam.
9 . A head-slider manufacturing method of manufacturing a head slider with a magnetic head having a recording element and a reproducing element to cause the magnetic head to float over a storage medium, the method comprising:
forming a resist near the magnetic head on a medium facing surface of the head slider;
forming a lubricating layer on the medium facing surface having the resist formed thereon in the forming;
irradiating the lubricating layer formed in the forming with a high energy beam; and
cleaning the lubricating layer irradiated with the high energy beam in the irradiating by using a lubricant-soluble solvent.