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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2004
Hendrik F. Hamann, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Prakash Kasiraj, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Lille, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yves C. Martin, Ossining, NY (US);
Chie Ching Poon, San Jose, CA (US);
Neil Leslie Robertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jan-ulrich Thiele, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe, San Jose, CA (US);
Hendrik F. Hamann, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Prakash Kasiraj, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Lille, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yves C. Martin, Ossining, NY (US);
Chie Ching Poon, San Jose, CA (US);
Neil Leslie Robertson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe, San Jose, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A heating device for a magnetic recording head includes first and second separating layers, the first separating layer having preferably a higher or equal thermal resistance than the first separating layer, and a heater formed between the first and second separating layers. A magnetic recording head for recording on magnetic medium includes a heating device which generates a heat spot on the magnetic medium which is larger than a magnetic track width, and/or heats a portion of the magnetic recording head which is on a leading edge side of a write gap in the magnetic recording head.