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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070297089 | Patterned Magnetic Recording Head with Termination Pattern A thin-film magnetic recording head utilizing a timing based servo pattern is fabricated by sputtering a magnetically permeable thin film onto a substrate. A gap pattern, preferably a timing based pattern, is defined by the thin film. The gap pattern includes terminatio... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070195453 | THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD IN WHICH PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORD HEAD OVERLAPS ON REPRODUCING HEAD A thin-film magnetic head is provided. The thin-film magnetic head includes a return-yoke layer formed on an opposed surface such that a maximum length of the return-yoke layer is shorter than a longer length of the length of the upper shield layer and the lower shield ... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070153431 | Thin film magnetic head A wire gap film is formed on a flat coplanar surface formed on a bottom pole by a bottom track pole and a thin film coil, first and second magnetic material films constituting a top pole are formed on a flat surface of the thin film coil, and the first and second magnet... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070139819 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD DEVICE CAPABLE OF INCREASING MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT TO EXHIBIT EXCELLENT RECORDING PERFORMANCE WHILE MAINTAINING MAGNETIC FIELD INTENSITY There is provided a perpendicular magnetic recording head device which can increase magnetic field gradient to exhibit excellent recording performance while maintaining magnetic field intensity capable of performing information recording well. In a perpendicular magneti... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070064342 | Magnetic element A magnetic element includes a channel layer, a first magnetic electrode which is in contact with the channel layer, a second magnetic electrode which is in contact with the channel layer and is insulated from the first magnetic electrode, a first intermediate layer whic... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070014047 | Recording/reproduction head and recording/reproduction device A phase-change recording/reproduction head includes: a probe consisting of a recording/reproduction electrode, an insulation layer arranged on the tip portion of the recording/reproduction electrode, and a resistor arranged on the insulation layer; and a return electrod... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060164755 | Magnetic head and magnetic recording/reproducing device In a magnetic head, a multilayer film is disposed, the multilayer film including metal magnetic films and non-magnetic films that are alternately laminated, and a boundary between the multilayer film and a magnetic oxide substrate or a non-magnetic substrate on which th... | 07/27/2006 |
| 20060114605 | Disk drive write head for writing cross-track magnetizations An inductive write head has its write poles and write gap oriented to generate magnetic fields in the cross-track direction on a magnetic recording disk in a disk drive. The disk has the magnetizations in the concentric data tracks oriented in the cross-track direction ... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060103976 | Magnetic winding and method of making same The present invention provides an improved magnetic winding and method of calculating desired winding parameters (winding layer thickness, number of winding layers and number of turns per winding layer) for a winding in a magnetic component. The invention may be applied... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060051620 | Magnetic recording medium with high areal recording density and magnetic recording apparatus A magnetic recording medium for attaining high areal recording density and a magnetic recording apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium is provided which includes underlayers, a first magnetic layer, a first intermediate layer, a second ma... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060044681 | Write pole and method of manufacturing the same A magnetic write head and method of fabrication, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, includes depositing a first hard mask layer on a layer of magnetic material, depositing a second hard mask layer on the first hard mask layer, depositing a third... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060044680 | Laminated high moment magnetic films with antiferromagnetic coupling as write pole of perpendicular magnetic recording head A perpendicular write head includes a main pole comprising high moment magnetic layers laminated with both soft magnetic layers and non-magnetic layers for antiferromagnetic coupling (AFC) between the high moment material layers. ... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20050275967 | Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in resistive interface devices Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in a user interface are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment of an apparatus comprises a first element comprising a first surface, a second element comprising a second surface, and an actuator configured vary a force b... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050254167 | Magnetic element for multi-phase and method of manufacturing the same A magnetic element for multi-phase is composed by burying a plurality of coils in a composite magnetic material such that a negative coupling of magnetic fluxes or a positive coupling of magnetic fluxes exists between at least two coils. This structure more miniaturizes... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050219748 | Method of manufacturing a metal write gap for an inductive write head A method for manufacturing an inductive write head having a metal write gap layer. The method reduces the number of necessary process steps and avoids corrosion of other write head elements such as magnetic back gap. ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050141137 | Magnetic recording head for perpendicular recording, fabrication process, and magnetic disk storage apparatus mounting the magnetic head Embodiments of the invention provide a perpendicular magnetic writing head with a suppressed effective track width to be written on a magnetic medium while increasing writing magnetic field gradient. In one embodiment a trailing side shield is disposed by way of a gap f... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050007695 | Collocated metal frame PZT micro-actuator with a lower stiffness suspension design A framing assembly with lower stiffness design and a method of manufacturing that framing assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment, a framing assembly pattern is cut from a piece of a thin planar material, such as metal. The pattern is then bent to form a framing assem... | 01/13/2005 |