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Magnetic bubble memory device

US4811286A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 2, 1987
Grant dateMar 7, 1989
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Expiry dateFeb 2, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11C19/0866
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A magnetic bubble memory has a reading zone with thin detection elements, coated with an insulating layer which carries thick bubble propagation patterns of high magnetic permeability material, and a bubble stretching zone also including thick propagation patterns of shapes such that the rotating field of the device causes the bubbles to progress along the patterns. The device further includes, out of the detection zone, additional thin localized elements of high magnetic permeability material having a thickness much lower than that of the patterns, obtainable by photolithography and located at the same level as the thin detection elements. When located in the stretching zone, the thin patterns are arranged to cooperate with thick patterns so that the voltage well generated by the rotating field of the device has a substantially constant value while moving along the thick patterns.

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