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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:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360113 ; 360126 ;
Abstract
A composite thin film head comprises a magnetoresistive head portion and an inductive head portion which are superposed on a substrate, the inductive head portion comprising a lower core layer disposed on one side of a gap spacer layer and adjacent to the magnetoresistive head portion, and an upper core layer disposed on the other side of the gap spacer layer. The lower core layer comprises a core portion positioned toward the upper core layer having the same width as the upper core layer in the vicinity of a medium-opposed face, and a shield portion positioned toward the magnetoresistive head portion having a larger width than the core portion in the vicinity of the medium-opposed face.