Digital Equipment Corporation

Quantum Corporation

Sharat Batra

Michael L Mallary

Harold B Shukovsky

Andrew L Wu

Seshadri Ramaswamy

A magnetoresistive (MR) head using soft adjacent layer (SAL) transverse biasing and having electrical leads with the facing surfaces lying in planes canted with respect to the easy axis of magnetization of the magnetoresistive sensor element for improving the off-track performance of the MR head by making the off-track performance profile more symmetrical, thereby minimizing the difference between the location of its physical center and its magnetic center.

Magneto resistive head having symmetric off-track performance profile

A thin film magnetic head, and process for making the same, features a thin film magnetic transducer formed from multiple layers of film and having a magnetic yoke interacting with an electrical coil. The yoke has multiple magnetic flux circuits, deposited on multiple layers of film, encircling the center of the transducer and connected together by proximal and distal vias. A coil has multiple turns intertwined with the yoke, passing between the distal and proximal vias so that the distal vias are exterior to the coil and the proximal vias are interior to the coil, to provide at least four magnetic flux interactions between the coil and the yoke. In preferred embodiments at least one layer of the film is deposited with at least two pole pieces having different easy axis orientations. In other preferred embodiments at least one distal via is configured as an elongated 'flux strap' for conducting magnetic flux along the length of the via in a direction oblique to the easy axis of either pole piece coupled together by the magnetic flux strap.

Thin-film magnetic transducer with multiple yoke-coil interactions and

A thin film magnetic head, and process for making the same, features a thin film magnetic transducer formed from multiple layers of film and having a magnetic yoke interacting with an electrical coil. The yoke has multiple magnetic flux circuits, deposited on multiple layers of film, encircling the center of the transducer and connected together by proximal and distal vias. A coil has multiple turns intertwined with the yoke, passing between the distal and proximal vias so that the distal vias are exterior to the coil and the proximal Vias are interior to the coil, to provide at least four magnetic flux interactions between the coil and the yoke. In preferred embodiments at least one layer of the film is deposited with at least two pole pieces having different easy axis orientations. In other preferred embodiments at least one distal via is configured as an elongated 'flux strap' for conducting magnetic flux along the length of the via in a direction oblique to the easy axis of either pole piece coupled together by the magnetic flux strap.

Thin-film magnetic transducer with a multitude of magnetic flux

A thin film magnetic recording head for high-density recording applications. The head includes a pole formed from at least two ferromagnetic material layers with one layer having high anisotropy (H.sub.k) and low permeability (.mu.), and the other layer having low H.sub.k and high .mu.. The high H.sub.k layer provides the lower magnetic impedance flux path in the tip region and the low H.sub.k layer provides the lower magnetic impedance path in the yoke region of the head. A non-magnetic film may be disposed between the layers, with a thickness chosen to minimize domain flux coupling of the two magnetic layers, while allowing magnetic signal flux transfer between layers at an appropriate point between the tip and the yoke. The pole may be sculpted so that the low H.sub.k layer extends only partially into the tip region, or so that the high H.sub.k layer extends only partially into the yoke. Alternatively, the invention may use a laminated, high permeability layer and a homogeneous layer in place of the high H.sub.k and low H.sub.k layers.

Process for fabricating magnetic film recording head for use with a

The present invention pertains to a thin film magnetic recording head which minimizes erase fringing and the process for manufacturing the thin film magnetic recording head. The head is used to record and read information made up of alternating magnetization patterns on a magnetic recording medium. Known recording heads cause erase fringing of the magnetic medium during the write operations. The structure of the recording head of the present invention has the ABS portion of one of two magnetic poles beveled away from ABS at the gap to zero throat, reduces erase fringing of the magnetic recording medium and is easily manufactured. By reducing erase fringing, the present invention enables an increase in disk density of information without risking loss of data integrity.

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