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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2007
Norikazu Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Roppongi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiraku Hirabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Watabe, Tokyo, JP;
Norikazu Ota, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Roppongi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiraku Hirabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Watabe, Tokyo, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a thin-film magnetic head which surely improves the writing and reading characteristic with reducing the flying height and surely handles the contact or collision with the magnetic recording medium. A thin-film magnetic head is provided, which includes, an substrate with ABS; a read or write head element provided on an element-formed surface of the substrate; at least one protrusion adjustment portion whose end reaches a slider end surface on the ABS side, which provides on an element-formed surface of the substrate; at least one heating portion provided rear at least one protrusion adjustment portion viewed from the slider end surface on the ABS side.