Abstract: A suspension device including a flexure with conductors is provided with an anti-ESD section. The anti-ESD section includes a metal plate, a insulating layer, a first electrically conductive member formed of a pair of read conductors, a second electrically conductive member formed of a pair of write conductors, a heater conductor, semiconductive layers, etc. The semiconductive layers are grounded to the metal plate and electrically isolated from one another by an insulating portion.

Abstract: A magnetic head slider floats by a flow of air formed by rotation of a magnetic recording medium. The magnetic head slider includes: a slider body arranged that faces a surface of the magnetic recording medium and that floats by the flow of air; an insulating layer that is provided at an end of the slider body at an outflow side of the flow of air and that includes a magnetic head element; and a projection shape part arranged at an end of the insulating layer at an outflow side of the flow of air for preventing deposition of a lubricating material deposited on the surface of the magnetic recording medium onto the magnetic head slider.

Abstract: A head apparatus includes a head that records information into and reproduces the information from a disc, a slider that supports the head, and flies above a surface of the disc when the disc rotates, the slider having a medium opposing surface that opposes to the disc, a positive pressure part that is formed on the medium opposing surface of the slider, generates a lifting power used to float the slider in cooperation with an airflow formed as the disc rotates, and defines a pitch angle of the slider, and a negative pressure part that is formed on the medium opposing surface of the slider, and decreases a flying height of the slider in cooperation with the airflow, wherein (E/L)×100?6 is met, where L is a length of the medium opposing surface along a direction from an inflow end to an outflow end of the airflow, and E is the shortest distance between the positive pressure part and the negative pressure part along the direction from the inflow end to the outflow.

Abstract: A first rail is formed on a medium-opposed surface in a head slider. A head element is embedded in the first rail. Second rails are formed on the medium-opposed surface at positions upstream of the head element. Negative pressure generating areas is defined at positions downstream of the second rail. A groove is formed on the medium-opposed surface. The groove isolates the first rail from a specific negative pressure generating area located nearest to the outflow end of the slider body among the negative pressure generating areas. Negative pressure is generated at the negative pressure generating areas behind the second rail. The lubricant spatters from the surface of the storage medium to the negative pressure generating areas. The lubricant moves downstream from the second rail. The lubricant directed to the first rail flows into the groove. The lubricant is prevented from reaching the first rail.

Abstract: A suspension device including a flexure with conductors is provided with an anti-ESD section. The anti-ESD section includes a metal plate, a insulating layer, a first electrically conductive member formed of a pair of read conductors, a second electrically conductive member formed of a pair of write conductors, a heater conductor, semiconductive layers, etc. The semiconductive layers are grounded to the metal plate and electrically isolated from one another by an insulating portion.

Abstract: A head apparatus includes a head that records information into and reproduces the information from a disc, a slider that supports the head, and flies above a surface of the disc when the disc rotates, the slider having a medium opposing surface that opposes to the disc, a positive pressure part that is formed on the medium opposing surface of the slider, generates a lifting power used to float the slider in cooperation with an airflow formed as the disc rotates, and defines a pitch angle of the slider, and a negative pressure part that is formed on the medium opposing surface of the slider, and decreases a flying height of the slider in cooperation with the airflow, wherein (E/L)×100?6 is met, where L is a length of the medium opposing surface along a direction from an inflow end to an outflow end of the airflow, and E is the shortest distance between the positive pressure part and the negative pressure part along the direction from the inflow end to the outflow.

Abstract: An information storage apparatus includes a magnetic head having a magnetic pole end that is controllable so as to project, a recording medium for recording and/or reproducing data, a protrusion provided on a surface of the recording medium, the protrusion being used for measuring a flying height of the magnetic head, and a flying-height adjustment controller that adjusts the flying height of the magnetic head by controlling the amount of projection of the magnetic pole end of the magnetic head on the basis of the amount of projection obtained when the magnetic pole end of the magnetic head comes into contact with the protrusion.

Abstract: An adhesive layer is interposed between a head slider and a support member for fixing the head slider to the support member. A deformation body is interposed between the head slider and the support member. The deformation body has a coefficient of thermal expansion larger than that of the adhesive layer. The deformation body expands in response to rise in temperature. An internal force is induced in the head slider so as to distance the head slider away from the support member. Since the adhesive layer serves to fix the head slider to the support member, the internal force is transformed into stress in the head slider. The thermal expansion induces stress in the head slider in response to the rise in temperature. The stresses are balanced with each other, so that the head slider is prevented from deformation.

Abstract: An information storage apparatus comprises: a slider having a head that performs information access to an information recording medium for storing information; an arm that holds the slider so that the head is closed to or in contact to a surface of the information storage medium; a tub fixed on the arm, wherein at least a part of the tub is over against the surface of the information recording medium; an actuator that causes the slider held by the arm to travel along the surface of the information recording medium when the arm is rotatably moved, wherein a travelling range of the slider extends to a saving position out of the information recording medium; and a ramp member that is in contact with a portion of the tub opposing the surface of the information recording medium, when the slider travels to the saving position through a rotatable movement of the arm by the actuator, so that the slider travels in a direction going away from the surface of the information recording medium, wherein a material of the ra

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a feeder, image-forming device, and remaining amount detecting method that allows a user to simply and effectively determine upon issuing a print command whether the print command will be executed completely without a loss of paper. The inventive feeder for feeding a recordable medium to a processor part that performs a process comprises: a sheet placement part that can accommodate a plurality of the recordable media in a stack of layered sheets, and rotate and shift to a suitable position for feeding the recordable media to the processor part; and a shift amount indicator part that is configured to rotate in a direction of rotation of the sheet placement part as the sheet placement part rotates, so as to enable a shift amount of the sheet placement part corresponding to a remaining amount of the recordable media to be electrically transmitted to an external device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a feeder, image-forming device, and remaining amount detecting method that allows a user to simply and effectively determine upon issuing a print command whether the print command will be executed completely without a loss of paper. The inventive feeder for feeding a recordable medium to a processor part that performs a process comprises: a sheet placement part that can accommodate a plurality of the recordable media in a stack of layered sheets, and rotate and shift to a suitable position for feeding the recordable media to the processor part; and a shift amount indicator part that is configured to rotate in a direction of rotation of the sheet placement part as the sheet placement part rotates, so as to enable a shift amount of the sheet placement part corresponding to a remaining amount of the recordable media to be electrically transmitted to an external device.