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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:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Charles Cain, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Read-Rite Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G01B / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360113 ; 32420721 ; 338 / ;
Abstract
A magnetoresistive (MR) read transducer having an exchange layer adjacent a soft adjacent layer (SAL). The exchange layer generates a transverse bias field which saturates the SAL with little or no sense current.