A Study on Flying Height of Head Slider in Rotary Type Actuator

회전 구동용 헤드 슬라이더의 부상높이에 관한 연구

This paper presents a method to predict the flying height of the head slider in a hard disk drive. Quantitative predicts of the flying height according to the variations of the external load and the disk velocity have been done by numerical computation. In addition, the magnitude of the external load to keep flying height constant were also suggested. The Modified Reynolds' equation driven from hydrodynamic lubrication theory under slip flow condition was used to describe air-bearing system under the slider. To solve the equation, a Finite Volume Method (FVM) has been applied. To determine the final minimum flying height and pitch angle of the head slider, the Secant iteration method is used which update initial guess of the minimum flying height and pitch angle of the slider. In this study, the model head slider has been selected from a real hard disk drive which is equipped in many commercial personal computers. As a result, as the disk velocity increases at constant external load, the minimum flying height and the pitch angle increase due to the in crease of the air-bearing force at the bottom of slider.

본 연구에서는 부상높이를 예측할 수 있는 방법을 개발하고 연관된 변수들의 변동에 따른 부상높이를 검토함으로써 불안정한 극소 공기막 형성시 유발되는 자기헤 드와 하드 디스크간 정보손실 및 하드 디스크의 표면손상을 막고 고성능 자기기억장치 설계에 도움이 되고자 한다.