US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 21 for "Use of common head slider for different RPM hard disk drives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,871, issued on July 21, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of common head slider for different RPM hard disk drives" was invented by Yanning Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Biao Sun (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing hard disk drives (HDDs) includes assembling a first HDD including a first slider having a first air bearing surface (ABS) configuration, configuring the first HDD to rotate its disk media at a first revolutions-per-minute (RPM), and sealing the first HDD with a first internal pressure level. Continuing, the method includes assembling a second HDD i...