Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head in a magnetic disk drive with a recording medium includes a magnetic core including a plurality of magnetic poles which form a closed magnetic path, and a recording coil wound around a part of the magnetic core and produces a magnetic field to the magnetic core. The magnetic core includes a write gap formed of a nonmagnetic material in a disk-facing surface of the recording head, a magnetic gap portion located at a position off from the disk-facing surface and magnetically isolated, and a nonmagnetic material in the at least one magnetic gap portion. The recording coil is wound around the nonmagnetic material in the magnetic gap portion.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field, a return pole opposed to a trailing side of the main pole across a write gap and configured to return magnetic flux from the main pole, a coil configured to excite magnetic flux in the main pole, a spin-torque oscillator located between respective facing surfaces of the return pole and an end portion of the main pole on the recording-medium side and configured to produce a high-frequency magnetic field, a current source configured to apply current to the spin-torque oscillator through the return and main poles, and a nonmagnetic layer provided in at least one of the poles and extending from a facing surface of the at least one of the poles, which faces the spin-torque oscillator, in a direction across the facing surface.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording head which records information on a magnetic recording medium, including an ABS surface, a near-field light generating unit, a heat conducting unit, and a heat absorbing unit. The ABS surface is opposed to the magnetic recording medium. The near-field light generating unit is disposed on the ABS surface. The heat conducting unit is formed by a heat conductor disposed in contact with the near-field light generating unit. The heat absorbing unit is disposed in contact with the heat conducting unit adjacently to the near-field light generating unit in a direction along the ABS surface.
Abstract:
An example magnetic recording head includes a main magnetic pole containing a ferromagnetic layer and a main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion containing an anti-ferromagnetic layer in contact with at least one side surface of the main magnetic pole. A heater for the main magnetic pole is configured so as to include an oxide layer with a metal path therein embedded in or provided in the vicinity of the main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion and a pair of electrodes, provided in the vicinity of the oxide layer, for flowing a current parallel to a surface of a recording medium through the metal path. A magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field so as to direct a magnetization of the main magnetic pole in one direction.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a recording head includes a main pole, a trailing core, a first coil wound around the trailing core, a leading core, and a second coil wound around the leading core. The trailing core includes a return pole opposed to a trailing side of the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and side shields arranged individually on opposite sides of the main pole transversely relative to tracks and magnetically separated from the main pole at a distance not more than double a track pitch of the recording medium. The leading core includes a junction opposed to a leading side of the main pole with a gap therebetween and joined to the side shields with a width of 20 μm or less transversely relative to the tracks and a connecting portion joined to the main pole in a position off the recording medium.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a recording head for perpendicular recording, includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium, a return pole opposed to the main pole with a write gap therebetween and configured to form a magnetic circuit in conjunction with the main pole, a junction formed of a nonmagnetic body in which soft magnetic bodies are dispersed and configured to physically connect the main and return poles to each other, a coil configured to excite the magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit, a spin-torque oscillator arranged between the return pole and an end portion of the main pole and configured to produce a high-frequency magnetic field, and a current source configured to supply a current to the spin-torque oscillator through the return and main poles.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording head includes: a main magnetic pole containing a ferromagnetic layer; a main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion containing an antiferromagnetic layer in contact with at least one side surface of the main magnetic pole; a heater for heating at least the main magnetic pole so that a magnetic interaction between the main magnetic pole and the main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion can be decreased; and a magnetic field generator for generating a magnetic field so as to direct a magnetization of the main magnetic pole in one direction.
Abstract:
There is provided a color converting device, wherein base data regulates a plurality of color charts regarding a first color value on a first color space and a second color value on a second color space that represent colors of a specified color chart and a color prediction model that estimates and calculates the relation between the first color value and the second color value based on the base data are inputted or designated, and the inputted or designated base data and color prediction model are used and color conversion conditions for converting the first color value to the second color value are generated, the device performing color conversion of inputted image data based on the generated color conversion conditions and provided with a determining unit that determines with calculation processing whether the inputted or designated base data is base data that can generate suitable color conversion conditions when the base data is combined with the inputted or designated color prediction model.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, there is to provide a data write method which is applied to a disk drive, for recording data on a disk medium by a head mounted on a rotary type actuator. The method carries out a track pitch conversion processing so that a track pitch of data track is set larger than a track pitch in an intermediate circumferential area based on an azimuth angle of the head in the case where the position of the data track is included in an inner circumferential area or outer circumferential area on the disk medium.
Abstract:
A magnetic disk apparatus has a magnetic recording medium including a recording layer formed on a nonmagnetic substrate, and a magnetic head including a magnetoresistive film arranged above the magnetic recording medium and a pair of electrodes formed on both surfaces of the magnetoresistive film along a track direction so as to make a sense current flow in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the magnetoresistive film. The recording layer has an easy axis of magnetization in a direction perpendicular to a track width direction, which is a direction of a magnetic field generated by the flow of the sense current, a ratio MA/Me of which recording layer is smaller than 0.6, where MA is a remanent magnetization in the track width direction and Me is a remanent magnetization in the direction of the easy axis of magnetization.
Abstract translation:磁盘装置具有包括形成在非磁性基板上的记录层的磁记录介质,以及包括布置在磁记录介质上方的磁阻膜的磁头和沿着磁道方向形成在磁阻膜的两个表面上的一对电极 以便在垂直于磁阻膜的平面的方向上形成感测电流。 记录层在垂直于轨道宽度方向的方向上具有容易的磁化轴,该磁道宽度方向是由感测电流的流动产生的磁场的方向,M / A / 其中记录层小于0.6,其中M A A是轨道宽度方向上的残余磁化强度,M e e是剩余磁化强度 易磁化轴的方向。