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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2001
Akihiko Takeo, Kunitachi, JP;
Tetsuya Roppongi, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Horinouchi, Ichikawa, JP;
Haruyuki Morita, Komoro, JP;
Mikio Matsuzaki, Saitama, JP;
Other;
Abstract
A perpendicular magnetic recording apparatus includes a perpendicular double-layer film medium including a stack of a soft magnetic backing layer and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer in which recording is performed under a condition that a recording track pitch as a total of a recording track width and a guard-band width between recording tracks is set to be 1 &mgr;m or less, and a perpendicular magnetic recording head including a recording main pole, an auxiliary pole disposed at a gap having a length of five or less times the guard-band width with respect to the recording main pole, and an exciting coil.