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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:
Mar. 05, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ; G11B / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324252 ; 324210 ; 338 / ; 360113 ;
Abstract
A magnetoelectric conversion element comprises a magnetoresistive effect material having a closed domain structure, a pair of contacts for supply of current flowing through the magnetoresistive effect material, and a bias electrode disposed between the contacts for biasing the direction of the current flow. The bias electrode is disposed so that the respective angles of intersection between the directions of current flow through different magnetic domains of the magnetoresistive effect material biased by the bias electrode and the directions of spontaneous magnetization biased by an external magnetic field are both increased or decreased.