Apparatus and method for setting slider surface potential

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9711173
APP PUB NO 20170154646A1
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15414269

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An apparatus includes a slider body of a disk drive. The slider body is electrically coupled to a plurality of end bond pads. A voltage applied to one more of the end bond pads sets a surface potential of the slider body.

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SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCCALIFORNIA USA

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Macken, Declan Eden Prairie, US 91 1126
Olson, Daniel W St. Louis Park, US 14 82
Stoebe, Timothy William Minnetonka, US 12 160

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