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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1994
Matahiro Komuro, Hitachi, JP;
Hiroyuki Hoshiya, Hitachi, JP;
Katsuya Mitsuoka, Fujisawa, JP;
Hiroshi Fukui, Hiratsuka, JP;
Hirotsugu Fukuoka, Odawara, JP;
Moriaki Fuyama, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic recording and reproducing device using a giant magnetoresistive film for providing high detection sensitivity. In the giant magnetoresistive film comprising a conductive nonmagnetic film, first and second conductive ferromagnetic films, a magnetization fixing film for fixing a magnetization direction of the first ferromagnetic film, and a pair of electrodes for making a detection current flow, when no external magnetic field is received and no detection current flows, a magnetization direction of the second ferromagnetic film is made non-orthogonal to the magnetization direction of the first ferromagnetic film. Magnitude of the detection current is determined so that when no external magnetic field is received and detection current flows, they are orthogonal to each other upon receipt of a magnetic field due to the detection current.