Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Nobuto Fukushima

Yasuhiro Horiike

Junji Satoh

Takeo Komiyama

Keisuke Kigawa

Eigo Hashimoto

Kouji Fujii

Toshiaki Hara

Mari Kondoh

An adjust pin ( ) for connecting a plurality of blocks ( ) to each other to make up a wrist watch band ( ) is formed of a metal with a property having a superelastic region where a stress remains constant against variation in strain. The adjust pin ( ) is provided with a bent part ( ) for causing a bending stress in the superelastic region to act on the inner wall face of a connecting through-hole ( ) of a block ( ) in a state wherein the block ( ) is joined with an adjoining block ( ). When the adjust pin ( ) is inserted in the blocks ( ), and the bent part ( ) is positioned in the connecting through-hole ( ), the bent part ( ) provides a force acting on the inner wall of the connecting through-hole ( ) by the agency of the bending stress in the superelastic region, thereby securely holding the adjust pin ( ) by a spring force thereof.

Wrist watch band adjust pin, method of manufacturing the pin, and wrist watch band connection structure

When forming a floating-type magnetic head slider for a hard disk drive or the like using dry etching, a method for manufacturing the magnetic head slider provides a method for adhering the slider being processed to an appropriate processing fixture, and when a plurality of magnetic head sliders are being processed at one time, a row (bar) array of sliders that is prepared beforehand is adhered to a metal or ceramic base, after which a dry etching method is used to form the air bearing, dry film photo-resist being used for the adhering of the row and the base. Ion milling or reactive ion etching (RIE) can be used as the dry etching method.

Magnetic head slider manufacturing method

Method of fabricating magnetic head slider

A Metal-In-Gap head is disclosed. A barrier layer of iron-silicon alloy is formed on a surface of a gap side of a core, and a sendust layer is formed on the surface of the barrier layer. A gap layer of nonmagnetic material is disposed between the surface of the sendust layer and a surface of another core.

Magnetic head containing a barrier layer

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Sayama, Japan

Nobuto Fukushima