Tdk Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Iwaki Glass Co., Ltd.

Ihi Corporation

Sae Magnetics (h.k.) Limited

Hiroaki Kawashima

Hitoshi Iwasaki

Yasutoshi Suzuki

Yuzo Kamiguchi

Koichi Terunuma

Tsuyoshi Fukada

Tetsuro Sasaki

Noriyuki Ito

Taro Oike

Koushu Satoh

Yoshitaka Sasaki

Kazuhiro Saito

Hideaki Fukuzawa

Masashi Sahashi

Norikazu Ota

Kenji Nakamura

Naoto Matono

Haruyuki Morita

Hiromi Fuke

Naoyuki Inoue

Noriaki Kasahara

Takamitsu Sakamoto

Tatsuya Harada

Kenkichi Anagawa

Koichi Otani

Naoki Oiwa

Yasuhiro Otake

Hirotaka Gomi

Kouichi Terunuma

Rie Sakamoto

Mitsuyoshi Tsunori

A heating process makes a temperature of joining surfaces Wa and Ta of a pair of metal parts W and T at the start of a first joining process equal to 20% or greater, preferably, 40% or greater of a melting point of material of the metal parts W and T. The heating process makes a heating depth h of the pair of metal parts W and T at the start of the first joining process equal to 1.0 mm or greater.

Friction joining method and joined structure

A magnetic head includes: a coil; a pole layer; a shield having an end face located in a medium facing surface forward of an end face of the pole layer along a direction of travel of a recording medium; a gap layer between the shield and the pole layer; and a substrate on which the foregoing elements are stacked. The top surface of the pole layer includes: first and second portions with a difference in height therebetween; and a third portion connecting the first and second portions to each other. The first portion has an edge located in the medium facing surface, and the second portion is located farther from the medium facing surface and from the substrate than the first portion. The magnetic head further includes a nonmagnetic layer disposed between the second portion and the gap layer. The nonmagnetic layer has a surface touching the second portion, the surface having an edge located at the boundary between the second and third portions. The nonmagnetic layer has a thickness equal to or greater than the difference in height between the first and second portions.

Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording with a shield and a pole layer having a top surface with first and second portions at different heights, and method of manufacturing same

A soft magnetic layer constituting a spin valve type magnetoresistance effect film comprises a multilayered body having at least two layers and including a first soft magnetic layer substantially made of Co or CoFe, and a second soft magnetic layer substantially made of NiFeX (wherein X represents at least one selected from Ta and Nb) in the order named from the side of a non-magnetic metal layer. More preferably, the soft magnetic layer comprises a multilayered body having at least three layers and including a first soft magnetic layer substantially made of Co or CoFe, a third soft magnetic layer substantially made of NiFe, and a second soft magnetic layer substantially made of NiFeX (wherein X represents at least one selected from Ta and Nb) in the order named from the side of the non-magnetic metal layer. Therefore, the detection sensitivity of a magnetic signal and the output of the magnetic head can be improved. Further, the linearity of the derived signal is also excellent.

Magnetoresistance effect film and magnetoresistance effect type head

A method of manufacturing a MR sensor having at least an anti-ferromagnetic layer and a ferromagnetic layer, and to a method for manufacturing a magnetic head with the MR sensor. The sensor utilizes bias magnetic field provided by exchange coupling between the anti-ferromagnetic layer and the ferromagnetic layer. The sensor manufacturing method includes a step of depositing an anti-ferromagnetic layer to have a larger thickness than a target thickness, a step of ordering the deposited anti-ferromagnetic layer, and a step of thinning the ordered anti-ferromagnetic layer to have the target thickness.

Manufacturing method of magnetoresistive effect sensor and manufacturing method of magnetic head with the sensor

An object of the invention is to minimize the difference in reproducing output of a magnetoresistive device for a reproducing head. An MR device which composes a reproducing head is formed as a laminated structure in which a SAL film, an insulating film and an MR film which is a magnetoresistive film are laminated. The side-end faces of the MR film slope toward the supporting surface of a base body and the side-end faces of the SAL film are formed substantially vertical to the supporting surface of the base body. An insulating film, which is provided in the related art, is not provided on the side-end faces of the MR film and the SAL film so as to make them directly in contact with a first electrode layer. The area of the side-end faces of the SAL film is sufficiently smaller than that of the MR film, and the ratio of both areas can be set to a constant value. The contact resistance between the SAL film and the first electrode layer is sufficiently larger than the current flowing in the MR film and the first electrode layer, and the current flowing in the SAL film becomes sufficiently smaller than that of the MR film. Further, the ratio of the amount of the current flowing in the SAL film to that of the current flowing in the MR film becomes constant and difference in the reproducing output can be suppressed.

Magnetoresistive device having magnetoresistive film and magnetic bias film with side-end faces with different angles of inclination and having insulating film made of electrically insulating material

A GMR head comprising a spin valve GMR film, which has a free layer containing a Co containing magnetic layer, and a hard magnetic biasing film for inputting a bias magnetic field to the spin valve GMR film. The hard magnetic biasing film is constituted of a film formed by laminating a hard magnetic layer on the magnetic under layer. The hard magnetic layer is disposed adjoining to edge portion of the spin valve GMR film through the magnetic under layer. The magnetic under layer has saturation magnetization Ms.sup.under which satisfies at least one condition of Ms.sup.under .gtoreq.Ms.sup.free and Ms.sup.under .gtoreq.Ms.sup.hard when saturation magnetization of the free layer is Ms.sup.free and saturation magnetization of the hard magnetic layer is Ms.sup.hard. In a MR head of this abutted junction structure, even when the track width is narrowed, occurrence of Barkhausen noise can be effectively suppressed.

Magneto-resistance effect head

A semiconductor sensor mount is formed as follows: through holes are formed that penetrate a glass plate; and then the glass plate having the through holes is dipped into hydrofluoric acid etchant to smooth the inner peripheral surfaces of the respective through holes. By etching the inner peripheral surfaces of the respective through holes after the through hole formation, minute roughness and cracks formed on the inner peripheral surfaces are removed, and thereby the areas for adsorbing gas are substantially reduced. That is, vacuums within the through holes can be maintained at a high degree during the anodic bonding, whereby undesirable electric discharge phenomena are prevented even if a relatively high voltage is applied during the anodic bonding. Accordingly, the yield of products can be improved while improving productivity.

Method of producing an anodic bonded semiconductor sensor element

A magnetoresistance effect head comprises a giant magnetoresistance effect film, a pair of leads to supply an electric current to the giant magnetoresistance effect head, and upper and lower magnetic shielding layers made of a crystalline soft magnetic film and disposed to hold the giant magnetoresistance effect film therebetween with a magnetic gap film intervened, wherein the surface roughness of an under layer of the giant magnetoresistance effect film is determined so that a center period L of the surface roughness satisfies L&gt;70 nm.

Magnetoresistance effect head having a giant magnetoresistance effect

Semiconductor element mount and producing method therefor

A magnetic head includes a reproducing head comprising a leading magnetic shield film, an insulator, a magnetoresistance film, an insulator, and a trailing magnetic shield film formed on a substrate from the substrate to a trailing direction. The leading magnetic shield film is made of a soft magnetic thin film having an atomic ratio composition of the formula: T.sub.(100-x-y) M.sub.x N.sub.y wherein T is Fe, Co, Ni or a mixture thereof, M is B, Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Hf, Ta, W or a mixture thereof, N is nitrogen, 0.1.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.25 and 0.1.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.25 or a soft magnetic thin film consisting essentially of 60 to 80 at % of Fe, 5 to 15 at % of Al, 10 to 25 at % of Si, and 0.1 to 20 at % of N. The magnetic head having such a shielded MR head is more durable and increased in productivity and yield.

Magnetic head including a reproducing head utilizing a magnetoresistance

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Hiroaki Kawashima