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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1997
Hiroaki Yoda, Kawasaki, JP;
Akio Hori, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuichi Ohsawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Sahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Miki Mori, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A thin film magnetic head has a reproducing element or/and recording element which is held from the direction of its thickness between a first ceramic substrate and a second ceramic substrate. The reproducing element or/and recording element is positioned at substantially the center with respect to the direction of track width. The first and second ceramic substrates hold the reproducing element or/and recording element from, for example, the direction of track width. The reproducing element or/and recording element is provided with a yoke type reproducing part which has at least one pair of magnetic cores with a magnetic gap therebetween on the side of a medium opposed face and a magnetoresistance effect element to which a signal magnetic flux from a magnetic recording medium is led through the pair of magnetic cores. Heat due to a sense current and heat due to the contact between the reproducing element or/and recording element and the magnetic recording medium are efficiently dissipated to the first and second ceramic substrates, thereby retarding a temperature increase of the reproducing element or/and recording element. Abrasion in the neighborhood of the reproducing element or/and recording element is retarded by the first and second ceramic substrates. A magnetic recording apparatus is provided with a magnetic recording medium, and a magnetic head slider having the thin film magnetic head described above.