U.S. Philips Corporation

Franciscus W Dirne

Jacobus J Ruigrok

Peter Lasinski

Adrianus P Severijns

Jacobus Bernardus Giesbers

Hendrik J De Wit

Ulrich Traxlmayr

Cornelis H Witmer

Arnold Broese Van Groenou

Cornelis W Sillen

Wolfgang Binder-Krieglstein

Leo-Franciscus M Van Oorschot

Johannes A Tolboom

A magnetic head having a head face (5) and a layer structure with a transducing element (E11) and a transducing gap terminating in the head face. At the area of the transducing gap and at both sides of the transducing gap the head face is coated with a layer (31) substantially comprising Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 for forming a contact face (33) for cooperation with a record carrier. The layer substantially comprising Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 having a thickness in the range between 10 and 100 nm is preferably provided by reactive RF sputtering.

Magnetic head having a wear resistant layer substantially comprising

A method of manufacturing one or more magnetic heads starts from a substrate (11) on which a first magnetic layer (13) is provided. A recess (15) is formed in this layer at the location of a transducing gap to be formed, after which a gap layer (19) is provided on a bounding wall (17) of the recess. Subsequently, the recess is filled with a second magnetic layer (23) and a counterblock (31) is provided on the layers after surface-polishing. Finally, a winding aperture is provided.

Method of manufacturing a magnetic head

The invention relates to a soft magnetic multilayer film which comprises a number of crystalline main layers and a number of amorphous secondary layers, the main layer substantially exclusively comprising iron as the magnetic constituent, and the secondary layer comprising mainly iron as the magnetic constituent. Such multilayer films exhibit a relatively low magnetostriction constant which is almost not influenced by temperature treatments. Such films are very suitable for use in magnetic heads.

Soft magnetic multilayer film and magnetic head provided with such a

Magnetic head comprising a magnetic core having two core limbs (1,3) formed from a ferrite, which core limbs constitute two core faces located opposite each other, at least one of said core faces having a cladding of a soft-magnetic material having a higher saturation magnetisation than the ferrite, and a non-magnetic transducing gap (11) present between the core faces and having at least one layer of a first metallic material (21) and bonded layers (23) of a second metallic material. The cladding comprises a first cladding layer (15) of an alloy based on Ni-Fe on which a second cladding layer (17) of an amorphous alloy based on Co-Ti and/or Zr and/or Hf-Nb and/or Ta is provided, while the first metallic material, chosen from the group of Mo, Ti, Cr and NiCr, is directly provided on the amorphous alloy of the cladding. (FIG. 2).

Magnetic head having soft-magnetic material cladded core limb faces

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Franciscus W Dirne