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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magneto-resistance effect magnetic head in which the MR effects of the two MR thin films of a MR device are balanced for suppressing Barkhausen noise and assuring a stabilized output. Between a lower-layer magnetic shield core and an upper layer magnetic shield core is arranged an MR device, made up of two MR thin films such that a distance d.sub.1 between the lower-layer magnetic shield core and the MR thin film is smaller than a distance d.sub.2 between the upper-layer magnetic shield core and the MR thin film. A film thickness t.sub.1 of the MR thin film towards the lower-layer magnetic shield core is set so as to be thinner than a film thickness t.sub.2 of the MR thin film towards the upper-layer magnetic shield core. Preferably, the relation 0.5<t.sub.1 /t.sub.2 holds. Also, a resistivity .rho..sub.1 of the MR thin film closer to the lower layer magnetic shield core may be larger than a resistivity .rho..sub.2 of the MR thin film. Preferably, the relation .rho..sub.1 /.rho..sub.2 >3 holds.