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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8153189 | Structure and process for production thereof A novel structure is provided in which an ordered alloy material is filled in pores of the structure. A process for producing the structure is also provided. The process comprises a first step for forming an alloy in pores of a porous layer, a second step for formin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153190 | Patterned magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a patterned magnetic recording medium which has an extremely planarized surface and a method of manufacturing the same. The medium includes a patterned magnetic layer including a plurality of magnetic columns that are arranged with a predetermined pitch... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8133529 | Method of forming a micromagnetic device A method of forming a micromagnetic device including providing a substrate and forming a magnetic core layer over the substrate from a magnetic alloy. The magnetic alloy includes iron, cobalt and phosphorous. A content of the cobalt is in a range of 1.8 to 4.5 atomi... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8029853 | Fabrication process for magnetoresistive devices of the CPP type The inventive fabrication process for magnetoresistive devices (CPP-GMR devices) involves the formation of a zinc oxide or ZnO layer that provides the intermediate layer of a spacer layer, comprising Zn film formation operation for forming a zinc or Zn layer and Zn ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8007860 | Method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus There is provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium which can easily produce a magnetic recording medium, the magnetic recording medium having a plurality of magnetically separated recording layers suitable as the recording layers in a discrete ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003163 | Magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer formed on the substrate, a texturing layer formed on the soft magnetic underlayer and... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7914845 | Data zone lube removal A method of manufacturing for providing closer head-to-media spacing, and the resulting disk, includes evenly lubricating a magnetic media disk, increasing the viscosity of a selected non-data zone region of the disk, and removing at least a portion of the lower vis... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7906170 | Apparatus, method, and system capable of producing a moveable magnetic field An apparatus capable of producing a moveable magnetic field includes a moveable support structure (110) and a magnetic field source (120) supported by the moveable support structure, where the magnetic field source is in a fixed position relative to th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7862853 | Method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium A method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium with high reliability is provided, which can form a thin magnetic layer having a dry film thickness of, for example, 60 nm or less while the occurrence of defects on the surface is suppressed. In this method, a ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851014 | Tilted recording media with L10 magnetic layer Magnetic recording media having a magnetic layer with an easy magnetization axis lying about 35° out of plane of the magnetic layer is disclosed. This media has a reduced total magnetic layer thickness and higher signal, while improving the media signal-to-noise ra... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7807218 | High performance magnetic tunnel barriers with amorphous materials A magnetic tunneling element is constructed from a MgO or Mg—ZnO tunnel barrier and an amorphous magnetic layer in proximity with the tunnel barrier. The amorphous magnetic layer includes Co and at least one additional element selected to make the layer amorphous.... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7794783 | Articles having wear-resistant coatings and process for making the same A wear-resistant article of manufacture, such as a screen, is produced by the method of providing a screen having a front face, a rear face, and openings extending through the screen from the front face to the rear face, contacting at least a portion of the screen w... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7767255 | Information storage medium with laterally magnetised dot array, and process for producing said medium An information storage medium with an array of laterally magnetised dots, as well as a process for producing this medium is disclosed. Each dot (2) contains at least one magnetic domain formed by a thin layer (4) of at least a magnetic material ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7635498 | Fabrication method for perpendicular magnetic recording media A perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method thereof, includes a nonmagnetic substrate; a soft magnetic under layer; an intermediate layer; a bilayer magnetic recording layer; a protective layer; and a liquid lubricant layer. According to a following order, ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7553513 | Electrochemical electrode using nickel-containing nanostructured material having dendritic structure as active layer, and method for producing the same The present invention provides an electrochemical electrode wherein transition metal (nickel) nanoparticles are used to form an active layer having a large surface area without using a conductive support while maintaining dispersibility and stability, and a method f... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7418777 | Method on manufacturing spin valve film A method of manufacturing a spin valve film, produces a large read out signal. After a completion of a film making process for forming a previous film of two films to be formed successively, but before an initiation of a film making process for forming a succeeding ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7407685 | Magnetic recording medium and the method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording media includes a magnetic recording layer of a granular magnetic layer that has ferromagnetic crystal grains and an oxide nonmagnetic grain boundary or a nitride nonmagnetic grain boundary surrounding the ferromagnetic ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402349 | Thick film composition yielding magnetic properties The invention is directed to a magnetic thick film composition comprising particles of permanent magnetic materials dispersed in organic medium wherein the medium comprises a polymer selected from polyurethane, phenoxy and mixtures thereof, and organic solvent. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394730 | Apparatus for patterning recording media A method for patterning a recording medium selectively thermally couples a recording medium and a heat source to alter a chemical composition of the recording medium. An apparatus for patterning a recording medium has a heat source for generating and directing an in... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390529 | Free layer for CPP GMR having iron rich NiFe By using a free layer that includes a NiFe layer containing between 65 and 72 atomic percent iron, an improved CPP GMR device has been created. The resulting structure yields a higher CPP GMR ratio than prior art devices, while maintaining free layer softness and ac... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389577 | Method to fabricate an ESD resistant tunneling magnetoresistive read transducer A method to fabricate a tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) read transducer is disclosed. An insulative layer is deposited on a wafer substrate, and a bottom lead is deposited over the insulative layer. A laminated TMR layer, having a plurality of laminates, is deposit... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390381 | Information recording medium and method of manufacturing the same An information recording medium that is excellent in repeated-rewriting performance and is deteriorated less in crystallization sensitivity with time is provided, with respect to which high density recording can be carried out. A method of manufacturing the same als... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383626 | Methods for fabricating giant magnetoresistive (GMR) devices In a method of fabricating a giant magnetoresistive (GMR) device a plurality of magnetoresistive device layers is deposited on a first silicon nitride layer formed on a silicon oxide layer. An etch stop is formed on the magnetoresistive device layers, and a second l... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377024 | Method of making a magnetic write head with trailing shield throat pad A method of fabricating a magnetic transducer is described which uses a trailing shield throat pad to set the trailing shield throat height. The trailing shield throat pad is used as a part of the structural form over which the material for the trailing shield is fo... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367110 | Method of fabricating a read head having shaped read sensor-biasing layer junctions using partial milling A method for fabricating a read head for a magnetic disk drive having a read head sensor and a hard bias layer, where the read head has a shaped junction between the read head sensor and the hard bias layer. The method includes providing a layered wafer stack to be ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367109 | Method of fabricating magnetic sensors with pinned layers with zero net magnetic moment A method for achieving a nearly zero net magnetic moment of pinned layers in GMR sensors, such as Co—Fe/Ru/Co—Fe, is described. The method determines a thickness of the first pinned layer which will yield the desired net magnetic moment for the pinned layers. A ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368146 | Magneto-optical recording medium, manufacturing method thereof and magneto-optical data recording and playback device A magneto-optical recording medium has a recording layer and a reflective layer on a substrate. The recording layer has a layered structure in which at least one spinel ferrite (or rutile-type oxide or hematite) layer and at least one garnet ferrite layer are piled ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360301 | Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head The invention is directed to improvement of a write element of a thin film magnetic head. The first pole portion projects from a flat surface of a first yoke portion at a medium-facing surface side and having a reduced width at its upper end. The second pole portion... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356907 | Method of manufacturing a carriage assembly of a hard disk drive A method of manufacturing a cartridge assembly of a hard disk drive, including a step of forming a part of a wiring circuit into flying leads and a step of forming a coating layer on the respective opposite surfaces of the bonding surfaces of the flying leads, which... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356909 | Method of forming a CPP magnetic recording head with a self-stabilizing vortex configuration A method is provided for forming a CPP MTJ or GMR read sensor in which the free layer is self-stabilized by a magnetization in a circumferential vortex configuration. This magnetization permits the pinned layer to be magnetized in a direction parallel to the ABS pla... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354618 | Oxygen plasma post-deposition treatment of magnetic recording media A method of manufacturing magnetic recording media, comprising sequential steps of: (a) providing an apparatus for manufacturing the media; (b) supplying the apparatus with at least one substrate for the media; | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354630 | Use of oxygen-containing gases in fabrication of granular perpendicular magnetic recording media A granular perpendicular magnetic recording medium, comprising: (a) a non-magnetic substrate having a surface; and (b) a layer stack on the substrate surface, the layer stack including a granular perpendicular magn... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350284 | Methods of making a current-perpendicular-to-the-planes (CPP) type sensor by ion milling to the spacer layer using a mask without undercuts In one particular example, a plurality of CPP type sensor layers are formed over a wafer and a mask without undercuts is formed over the plurality of CPP type sensor layers in a central region. With the mask without undercuts in place, an ion milling process is star... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343668 | Method of manufacturing perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of highly precisely defining gap distance A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head is provided. The method accurately defines a gap layer. The method includes forming a lower gap layer made of a non-magnetic material on a main magnetic pole layer. An upper gap layer is formed on the... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343669 | Method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head A manufacturing method of a thin film magnetic head is provided. In the manufacturing method of a thin film magnetic head, an inorganic insulating layer is formed along at least a sidewall surface of each conductor part. A gap of each conductor part is filled by an ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343665 | Method of making current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive head The lower electrode is at least exposed at the surface of a substructure layer in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element. A resist is formed to extend over the surface of the substructure layer. A patterning void is defined in the re... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340824 | Method for fabricating a magnetic head having an improved magnetic shield A first magnetic shield layer of the read head sensor is deposited upon a slider substrate surface. A patterned photoresist is then photolithographically fabricated upon the first magnetic shield layer with openings that are formed alongside the location at which th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337529 | Method for forming an electrical interconnect to a spring layer in an integrated lead suspension A method for forming an electrical interconnect to the spring metal layer in an integrated lead suspension or suspension component of the type having a multi-layer structure including a spring metal layer and a conductor layer separated by a dielectric insulator lay... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334317 | Method of forming magnetoresistive junctions in manufacturing MRAM cells A method of forming a magnetoresistive junction in a process of manufacturing a magnetoresistive memory cell includes providing a semiconductor substrate having at least one via contact layer on a main surface thereof, depositing a layered structure of magnetoresist... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332194 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing thereof A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is disclosed that is characterized by a lowered noise component and improved thermal stability. The method for making the recording medium includes the serial steps of forming a soft magnetic back-lining layer on a non-magne... | 02/19/2008 |
