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Planarized read/write head and method

US4860139A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 19, 1987
Grant dateAug 22, 1989
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Expiry dateJun 19, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49064
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A probe-type, electromagnetic read/write head for perpendicular reading and writing, and a method for making the same, wherein the resulting head is characterized by a flux-return portion, and a pole portion which is spaced from but magnetically coupled to the pole portion, with its side which faces the flux-return portion, throughout its entirety, being planar.

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