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Information recording apparatus with a non-newtonian liquid bearing

  • US 5,488,521 A
  • Filed: 03/07/1994
  • Issued: 01/30/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An information storage system comprising:

  • a substantially rigid rotatable storage medium having a magnetic data surface;

    means for rotating the rotatable storage medium;

    a magnetic transducer means;

    means for maintaining a film of a non-Newtonian fluid on the magnetic data surface by applying the fluid to the magnetic data surface during rotation of the storage medium, the magnetic transducer means being supported adjacent to the magnetic data surface during rotation of the storage medium, by the film of the fluid.

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