CPC G11B 5/2655 (2013.01) [G11B 5/255 (2013.01); G11B 5/40 (2013.01); G11B 15/60 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |
1. A magnetic recording head assembly, configured to read from and write to a magnetic media, comprising:
one or more rows of chiplets, each of the one or more rows of chiplets having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge, the first and second side edges being disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge; and
one or more sensor guards disposed adjacent to at least one of the first side edge and the second side edge of each of the one or more of rows of chiplets, wherein each of the one or more sensor guards comprises:
a first surface disposed at a first media facing surface (MFS);
a second surface disposed perpendicular to the first surface; and
a chamfered surface coupling the first surface to the second surface, wherein the chamfered surface of each of the one or more sensor guards has a first ratio of depth to width between about 0.01 and about 0.2 so as to enable contact of the magnetic media during read and write operations.
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