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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2000
Hiroaki Yoda, Kawasaki, JP;
Atsuhito Sawabe, Yokosuka, JP;
Hitoshi Iwasaki, Yokosuka, JP;
Naoyuki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Hori, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A recording-reproducing magnetic head comprising a magnetoresistance effect reproducing head and an inductive recording head. The magnetoresistance effect reproducing head having a magnetoresistance effect element and the inductive recording head having a lower magnetic core, an upper magnetic core, coils sandwiched between the lower and upper magnetic cores at their mid-parts, and a recording magnetic cores at leading end parts. The leading end parts of the lower and upper magnetic cores having a protruding part protruding to the recording magnetic gap layer and the upper magnetic core having a continuous magnetic body which extends from the protruding part to the mid-part. A center line of the protruding part of the lower magnetic core, which extends in a track length direction on a surface opposite a medium, intersecting the protruding part of the upper magnetic core.