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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:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/39 ; G11B 1/561 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/39 ; G11B 1/561 ;
Abstract
The width W of the lower shield thin film and the width W of the upper shield thin film are specified so that each of these widths is larger than the width W of the MR element and is smaller than the contact width W