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Thin film magnetic head and magnetic disk apparatus using the same

US6288871A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 6, 2000
Grant dateSep 11, 2001
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/012
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A thin film magnetic head which can suppress magnetic saturation at opposite ends of width of a narrow track width to reduce the amount of recording side-fringing onto a recording medium and which can assure a necessary recording magnetic field satisfactorily. Also a magnetic disk apparatus using the head. A second magnetic yoke has a magnetic gap depth over which the spacing of a magnetic gap keeps substantially equal toward a rear portion of the second magnetic yoke, starting at the tip of a second magnetic pole and the spacing between a first magnetic yoke and the second magnetic yoke is increased toward the rear portion, starting at a position corresponding to the magnetic gap depth. The second magnetic pole of the second magnetic yoke has in the track width direction a width for recording a signal on a track width of the recording medium. The width keeps constant over a predetermined length toward the rear portion, starting at the second magnetic pole tip and spreads monotonically toward the rear, starting at a position corresponding to the predetermined length. The predetermined length terminating in the spread start position of the width of the second magnetic yoke is set to…

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