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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324208 ; 324252 ; 338 / ; 3403 / ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a magnetic head for use to constitute a position encoder which comprises a magnetic recording medium carrying records provided by a plurality of unit magnets arrayed with a constant pitch .lambda. on the surface of a moving member. The magnetic head is fixedly disposed opposite to the magnetic recording medium to constitute the position encoder. The magnetic head comprises a bridge circuit of four U-shaped arms each of which is formed by a pair of magnetoresistive elements spaced apart by an interval of (.lambda./2)(1+n), where n is zero or a positive integer.