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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2005
Yasutaka Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
Ikuya Tagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masafumi Mochizuki, Tokyo, JP;
Roger Wood, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasutaka Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
Ikuya Tagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masafumi Mochizuki, Tokyo, JP;
Roger Wood, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention avoid erasure of recorded data by concentrating stray fields on a magnetic head element. According to one embodiment, in a magnetic storage apparatus using a perpendicular recording medium with a soft magnetic under layer, a soft magnetic shield is provided so as to surround the upper parts and sides of magnetic head elements. A distance between the soft magnetic shield and the medium is shorter than that between the soft magnetic shield and the magnetic head element.