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Flux guide type device, head having the same, and drive

US6961222B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 30, 2002
Grant dateNov 1, 2005
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49046
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A flux guide type includes a magnetoresistive device for reading a signal flux, and a flux guide for transmitting the signal flux to the magnetoresistive device. The flux guide includes a laminated film that includes a ferromagnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer and a ferromagnetic layer in this order, and the two ferromagnetic layers in the flux guide have antiparallel directions of magnetization with respect to the non-magnetic layer.

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