Tdk Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sae Magnetics (h.k.) Limited

Yohei Koyanagi

Kazuki Sato

Kei Hirata

Takayasu Kanaya

Hiroshi Omura

Tsuyoshi Hayashi

Katsuya Ishigami

Kazuhito Kojima

Takuya Niimura

Den Ozaki

Shuichi Kuroki

Hiraku Hirabayashi

Shinji Hara

Seiichi Takayama

Takeo Kagami

Masayuki Oishi

Juren Ding

Cheukwing Leung

Rongkwang Ni

Chiuming Lueng

Toshiyuki Ayukawa

Hiroshi Hirosaki

Wanyin Kwan

Siuman Mok

Kazuki Nagai

An air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat-source detection unit provided at the front of a housing. The heat-source detection unit includes an infrared sensor that detects a heat source in an air-conditioned space and a supporting member that supports the infrared sensor. The supporting member is rotated about an axis that extends in a vertical direction. Part of the infrared sensor that corresponds to the field of view thereof is exposed when the infrared sensor faces the air-conditioned space, and the part of the infrared sensor is concealed when the infrared sensor does not face the air-conditioned space.

Air-conditioning apparatus

An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a heat exchanger which generates conditioned air by carrying out heat exchange between refrigerant and indoor air; and a drain pan disposed below a lower end of the heat exchanger to correct dew condensation water. The drain pan includes at a side portion thereof: a side dew receiving portion which receives dew condensation water; and a recessed portion disposed below the side dew receiving portion, the recessed portion being recessed toward an other side portion opposite to the side portion. A side face of the drain pan is provided with a heat insulating sheet covering an entire opening of the recessed portion.

Indoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus

A communication-adapter mounting device is used for mounting a communication adapter that relays communication between an air-conditioning apparatus and another apparatus. The communication-adapter mounting device includes a body into which the communication adapter is to be accommodated and from which the communication adapter is allowed to be removed, and a clip to mount the body to a housing of the air-conditioning apparatus. A mounting plate of the body includes a mounting hole for securing the communication-adapter mounting device to an installation location in which to install the communication adapter. Further, the body has a clip holding mechanism to hold the clip and to allow the clip to be removed.

Communication-adapter mounting device

A MR sensor comprises a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer, a MR element and a pair of hard magnet layers sandwiched therebetween, and a non-magnetic insulating layer formed at a side of the MR element far from an air bearing surface of a slider. The MR sensor further comprises a first non-magnetic conducting layer formed between the first shielding layer and the MR element, and the first non-magnetic conducting layer is embedded in the first shielding layer and kept separate from the ABS. The MR sensor of the invention can obtain a narrower read gap to increase the resolution power and improve the reading performance, and obtain a strong longitudinal bias field to stabilize the MR sensor so as to increase the total sensor area and, in turn, get an improved reliability and performance. The present invention also discloses a magnetic head, a HGA and a disk drive unit.

Magnetoresistive sensor, including non-magnetic conducting layer embedded in shielding layer and magnetic head, head gimbal assembly and disk drive unit with the same

A thin film magnetic head includes a magnetoresistive element having a recording-medium-facing-surface which is to be faced with a magnetic recording medium; a magnetic bias layer located on a side opposite to the recording-medium-facing-surface of the magnetoresistive element, and applying a bias magnetic field to the magnetoresistive element in a direction orthogonal to the recording-medium-facing-surface; and a resistive film pattern having the recording-medium-facing-surface, the resistive film pattern being located side by side with the magnetoresistive element in a track-width direction.

Thin film magnetic head having similarly structured resistive film pattern and magnetic bias layer

Foundation layers of a thin film magnetic head are disposed between insulating layers and bias magnetic field application layers, and are configured of Cr or Cr alloy. The insulating layers are configured of a Si oxide such that the Si content of the Si oxide is in the range of 30&#x2dc;56 at % (atom %) and that the atom ratio of oxygen to Si (O/Si) is in the range of 0.8&#x2dc;1.3. With the configuration, the occurrence rate of noise is reduced.

Thin film magnetic head and magnetic disk device

A manufacturing method of a thin-film element having a lower layer with a narrower width is provided, which comprises steps of: forming a first film and a second film on the first film; forming a second layer having a width Wobtained by trimming the second film; forming a mask film having a smaller etching rate than the first film so as to cover the second layer; forming a pattern having a width Wlarger than the width W, obtained by collectively trimming the mask film covering the second layer and at least an upper portion of the first film; and forming a first layer having a width Wsmaller than the width Wor having a portion with a width Wsmaller than the width W, obtained by trimming the first film without changing the width Wof the second layer.

Method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head having an element having a lower layer with a narrower width

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Tokyo, Japan

Yohei Koyanagi