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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1998
Tetsuya Kanbe, Yokohama, JP;
Ichiro Tamai, Yokohama, JP;
Yuzuru Hosoe, Hino, JP;
Kiwamu Tanahashi, Fujisawa, JP;
Yoshio Takahashi, Koganei, JP;
Fumiyoshi Kirino, Tokyo, JP;
Nagatugu Koiso, Tama, JP;
Satoshi Matsunuma, Kamakura, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a magnetic storage apparatus having a magnetic recording medium, a drive unit for driving this medium in a prespecified recording direction, a magnetic head assembly including a recorder section and reproduction section, means for causing the magnetic head to move relatively with respect to the magnetic record medium, and a record/playback signal processor means for performing signal inputting to the magnetic head and for effecting reproduction of an output signal from the magnetic head, the reproduction section of said magnetic head is composed of a magnetic head of the magneto-resistance effect type, while said magnetic record medium is structured including a substrate and a magnetic layer formed thereover with one or several underlayers being sandwiched therebetween, wherein at least one of the underlayers is a specific layer that is made of amorphous or microcrystalline materials containing therein Ni as the principal or main component thereof and further containing at least one kind of element as selected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta.