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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2003
Chiaki Ishikawa, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroyuki Hoshiya, Odawara, JP;
Chiaki Ishikawa, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroyuki Hoshiya, Odawara, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
In a giant magnetoresistive head, a magnetic read width is reduced and a read output is increased. The giant magnetoresistive head has a magnetoresistive film having a pinned layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a free layer, a pair of terminals for applying a current to the magnetoresistive film, and bias applying means for applying a bias magnetic field for magnetic domain control to the free layer. The free layer has a sensing region and a pair of out-of-sensing-region regions on both ends of the sensing region. The magnetization direction of one of the out-of-sensing-region regions and the magnetization direction of the other out-of-sensing-region region have different components in a direction of element height of head. The magnetization of the one out-of-sensing-region region and the magnetization of the other out-of-sensing-region region are nearly symmetrical relative to the sensing region interposed therebetween.