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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Robert G. Biskeborn, Hollister, CA (US);

Calvin S. Lo, Saratoga, CA (US);

Andrew C. Ting, El Prado, NM (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/39 (2006.01); G11B 5/255 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01); G11B 5/31 (2006.01); G11B 5/11 (2006.01); G11B 5/115 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/255 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01); G11B 5/11 (2013.01); G11B 5/115 (2013.01); G11B 5/3143 (2013.01); G11B 5/3146 (2013.01); G11B 5/3912 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a magnetic sensor structure, a magnetic shield having at least one laminate pair comprising a magnetic layer and an electrically nonconductive nonmagnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the sensor structure and the magnetic shield. An apparatus according to another embodiment includes a sensor structure and a magnetic shield having a conductive portion and a nonconductive portion, the nonconductive portion having at least one laminate pair comprising a magnetic layer and an electrically nonconductive nonmagnetic layer.


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