Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yuichi Osawa

Tomomi Funayama

Hiroaki Yoda

Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Shiho Nakamura

Akio Hori

Shigeru Haneda

Takashi Koizumi

A method for producing a magnetic head, including the steps of forming a magnetic body on a substrate, the magnetic body including a principal plane facing the substrate and a rear plane opposite to the principal plane; applying a beam to the rear plane of the magnetic body and forming a portion defining a hole extending from the rear plane to the principal plane; forming a magnetic gap in the hole; and separating the magnetic body and the magnetic gap from the substrate and forming medium facing surface substantially coplanar with the principal plane.

Magnetic head, method for producing same, and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system

A magneto-resistance effect element of the present invention allows detection of a micro-bit signal with a high sensitivity. The magneto-resistance effect element is provided with a first magnetic substance layer, a spacer layer stacked on the first magnetic substance layer, a second magnetic substance layer stacked on the spacer, an insulating layer positioned adjacent to a stacked structure comprising the first magnetic substance layer, the spacer layer and the second magnetic substance layer, a gate electrode positioned adjacent to the insulating layer, and a magnetism sensitive region controlled by a voltage applied to the gate electrode.

Magneto-resistance effect element with magnetism sensitive region controlled by voltage applied to gate electrode

The objective of this invention is to provide a yoke-type magnetic head and a magnetic recording device in which Barkhausen noise is low. It is possible to induce a magnetic flux efficiently within a magnetic head by using a granular magnetic film that exhibits both soft magnetic properties and a high resistance, which suppresses any shunt of the flow of the sense current into the magnetic yokes, thus preventing any deterioration insensitivity. Since this means that eddy currents can be suppressed, even during use in high-frequency regions, the frequency response characteristics are also improved. In addition, since the magnetic grains within the granular magnetic film are nano-sized, the dimensions of magnetic domains therein are also miniaturized to match that size, and thus there is also substantially no movement of the magnetic domain walls and this miniaturization also makes it possible to suppress the generation of Barkhausen noise. A similar effect can also be obtained by inducing maze domains within the magnetic yokes.

Yoke-type magnetic head and magnetic recording/reproducing device

Magnetic head and magnetic recording/reproduction device

A magnetic head for vertical magnetic. The magnetic head includes: a recording head including a first main pole and a first return yoke, the first main pole having a first medium facing portion, the first return yoke having a second medium facing portion, and a reproducing head including a second main pole and a second return yoke, the second main pole having a third medium facing portion, the second return yoke having a fourth medium facing portion, first angle &thgr;1 between first and second straight lines being smaller than second angle &thgr;2 between the first straight line and third straight line, the first straight line connecting centers of medium facing surfaces the first medium facing portion and the second medium facing portion, the second straight line connecting opposing corners of medium facing surfaces of the first medium facing portion and the second medium facing portion, and the third straight line connecting centers of medium facing surfaces of the third medium facing portion and the fourth medium facing portion.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yuichi Osawa