Dynamics for micromachined mother ship negative pressure slider bearings with an integrated microsuspension mechanism in proximity magnetic recording

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 989-994

  Tagawa, Norio ^a   Mori, Atsunobu ^a   Kajitani, Hiroshi ^b   Hashimoto, Masanobu ^b  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MICROMACHINING; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

HEAD/DISK INTERFACES; MICROSUSPENSION GIMBALS; NEGATIVE PRESSURE SLIDER BEARINGS; SLIDER AIR FILM STIFFNESS RATIO; SLIDER MASS RATIO;

MAGNETIC BEARINGS;

BEARING; MAGNETIC DISC; MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 0033213536     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: 15288897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2834167     Document Type: Article

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