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Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1991

Filed:

Feb. 15, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Beat Keel, Prior Lake, MN (US);

Arthur Calderon, Minnetonka, MN (US);

Simon Liao, Santa Barbara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; B44C / ; C03C / ; C23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360110 ; 29603 ; 156643 ; 156653 ; 156656 ; 1566591 ; 1566611 ; 156667 ;
Abstract

In a method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head having aligned top and bottom pole tip pieces, a sacrificial mask protects the upper pole tip while the exposed non-aligned portions of the gap material and lower pole tip are removed. The sacrificial mask is deposited using a self alignment technique.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Keel, Beat. (1991). Self aligned magnetic poles using sacrificial mask (U.S. Patent No. 4992901). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4992901

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