Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujihiro Itoh

Kenji Makino

Shinichi Inoue

Yutaka Kusano

Tohoru Matuda

Tooru Matuda

A multi-track magnetic head having at least three conversion elements deposited on a common substrate includes a medium sliding face which is formed in a curved shape. The positions of at least two of the three conversion elements are shifted from each other perpendicularly to the alignment direction of the conversion elements in conformity to the curvature of the medium sliding face.

Multi-track head

A thin-film magnetic head having a magnetic core formed by a thin-film deposition technique on a substrate formed of crystallized glass which comprises of a mass of microcrystalline aggregation particles having an average particle size of 1 to 10 .mu.m and each comprising of an aggregation of microcrystalline grains having an average grain size of about 0.5 .mu.m or smaller. This structure enables an improvement in the abrasion resistance of the head and, hence, an improvement in the recording/reproduction characteristics while maintaining the desired workability of the substrate, thereby improving the head in producibility and reliability.

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Saitama, Japan

Fujihiro Itoh