Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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Kumiko Wada

Toshio Fukazawa

Yoshihiro Tosaki

Yuji Nagata

Satoru Mitani

Terumi Yanagi

Yoshihiro Tozaki

In an integrated thin film magnetic head, a write pole or inductive head I.sub.h includes first and second magnetic cores magnetically coupled to form a magnetic circuit and a coil formed between the first and second magnetic cores. An MR element read pole or MR head MR.sub.h includes first and second yokes, an MR element and a bias conductor for applying a biasing magnetic field on the MR device, and the first magnetic core or the second magnetic core constitutes the second yoke.

Integrated thin film magnetic head

In a magnetoresistive head capable of performing favorable magnetic recording and reproduction, an overlap width of a front yoke and a magnetoresistive element is always wider than an overlap width of a back yoke and the magnetoresistive element. Generally, the magnetoresistive head varies in its reproduction efficiency by the overlap width of the yoke and magnetoresistive element. In particular, the reproduction output is significantly affected by the overlap width of the front yoke and magnetoresistive element, and when the overlap width of the front yoke becomes narrower than the overlap width of the back yoke, the reproduction output tends to decrease abruptly. Therefore, by keeping the overlap width of the front yoke always wider than the other, a stable reproduction output can be achieved. In particular, an outstanding effect is obtained in a multi-channel magnetoresistive head containing multiple magnetoresistive elements in one head.

Thin film magnetoresistive head for magnetic recording and reproducing

A thin film magnetic head device to be equipped on a magnetic recording and reproducing system can meet a plurality of recording formats and carry out stabilized recording/reproducing without depending on the running direction of the magnetic tape. There are combined either of at least two thin film magnetic heads for recording each having on a substrate a recording transducer for recording information on a magnetic tape or two thin film magnetic heads for reproducing each having a reproducing transducer for reading out information recorded on a magnetic tape or two thin magnetic heads for recording and reproducing .in which the recording transducer and the reproducing transducer exist together. According to the running direction of the magnetic tape, only the thin film magnetic head Which is situated at the downstream side in the running direction of the magnetic tape is activated to be always in an operating condition.

Thin film magnetic head device

A magnetic head for multi-track data recording on magnetic tape is formed of a combination of two head modules, each having a linear array of thin-film transducer elements formed on a substrate, each of these arrays consisting of a mixture of write elements and read elements. These are positioned on the respective head modules such that when the head modules are combined with the substrates mutually opposing, pairs of transducer elements are formed for respective tape tracks, each pair consisting of a read and a write element. 'Read-after-write' recording confirmation can thereby be implemented together with bidirectional recording operation, by using only a combination of two head modules.

Magnetic head for multi-track recording having read and write

A method of manufacturing a multiturn coil and a thin film magnetic head including a multiturn coil. This multiturn coil manufacturing method includes the following steps. First a laminate made up of conducting layers and insulating layers for coil is formed on a base member on a substrate and having a given inclination. Then this laminate is formed into a loop shape with a space or discontinuity thereon. In the next step, the upper part of the laminate on opposite sides of the space is removed to form a flat surface parallel to the substrate in which the ends of all the conducting layers are exposed. Finally, film conductive strips are connected between these exposed portions across the discontinuity to complete a multiturn coil.

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Kawanishi, Japan

Kumiko Wada