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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Kuok San Ho, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yimin Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Masafumi Mochizuki, Koganei, JP;
Ching Hwa Tsang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Roger Wood, Gilroy, CA (US);
Kuok San Ho, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yimin Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Masafumi Mochizuki, Koganei, JP;
Ching Hwa Tsang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Roger Wood, Gilroy, CA (US);
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to structures of a recording head having a winged design for reducing corner stray magnetic fields. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a magnetic recording head comprising a plurality of components. In embodiments of the present invention at least one of the plurality of components comprises a surface exposed to an air bearing surface when in operation with a recording medium. The surface exposed to the air bearing surface comprises notched edges for constraining corner stray magnetic fields associated therewith.