| 20110299189 | ACTIVE HEAD SLIDER HAVING PIEZOELECTRIC AND THERMAL ACTUATORS - An active head slider for a use in a Hard Disk drive having first and second actuators. The first actuator deforming a portion of a slider body that includes a read/write head to reduce the flying height of the portion over a disk. The second actuator forming a protrusion in a bottom surface of the slider body that includes an end of the read/write head to further reduce the flying height of the read/write head. Preferably, the first actuator is a piezoelectric actuator and the second actuator is one or more thermo actuators. | 12-08-2011 |
