Abstract:
Large angle azimuth recording methods and devices. In one aspect of the invention methods of recording one or data tracks having data transitions oriented at a large azimuth angle are provided. In another aspect of the invention methods of reading a data track having data transitions oriented at a large azimuth angle are provided. Such methods include steps of suppressing a side track signal. In other aspects of the invention, head modules and devices for writing and/or reading large azimuth angle data tracks are provided.
Abstract:
A magnetic head which can improve workability in coil formation, prevent wiring errors and is compatibly applicable to recording media having respective recording densities different from each other. Twelve cut-outs (11) are formed on four walls (10) at respective edges of a back yoke (5) and lead wires (15a, 15b) of a read/write coil (15) and lead wires (16a, 16b) of a read/write coil (16) are let separately through the respective cut-outs (11), whereby the lead wires (15a, 15b and 16a, 16b) are not mistaken for each other in wiring. Since first and second magnetic cores (2 and 3) and the read/write coils (15 and 16) corresponding thereto are provided, the magnetic head is capable of reading and writing on two recording media having respective recording densities different from each other, thereby providing compatibility for magnetic recording.
Abstract:
A magnetic head which can improve workability in coil formation, prevent wiring errors and is compatibly applicable to recording media having respective recording densities different from each other. Twelve cut-outs (11) are formed on four walls (10) at respective edges of a back yoke (5) and lead wires (15a, 15b) of a read/write coil (15) and lead wires (16a, 16b) of a read/write coil (16) are let separately through the respective cut-outs (11), whereby the lead wires (15a, 15b and 16a, 16b) are not mistaken for each other in wiring. Since first and second magnetic cores (2 and 3) and the read/write coils (15 and 16) corresponding thereto are provided, the magnetic head is capable of reading and writing on two recording media having respective recording densities different from each other, thereby providing compatibility for magnetic recording.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a dual element head is disclosed. One embodiment includes first depositing a first head element upon a substrate and second depositing a second head element upon the first head element. Each of the depositing steps includes a tolerance that is independent of the other. In the second depositing step, the functional width of the second head element (i.e., the write width if the second head element is a write element) is made wider than a desired functional width for the second head element. The second head element is then trimmed to substantially achieve the desired functional width while using a portion of the first head element as a reference to reduce errors associated with the independent nature of the first and second tolerances. For instance, the portion of the first head element used as a reference can be an edge of a magnetoresistive (MR) read element that defines the read width of the read element. Preferably, the trimming step includes creating erase notches on a portion of the write element that are capable of erasing data from a recording medium. Thereafter, second notches that are deeper than the erase notches and hence less capable of erasing data than the erase notches are created next to the erase notches to adjust the width of the erase notches. It is also preferred that the first head element and the second head element include an air bearing surface that resides substantially in the x-z plane, and that the second head element is trimmed by a focussed ion beam from a direction that includes a y-component to adjust the width of the second head element in the z-direction.
Abstract:
A magnetic head is manufactured by the steps of accommodating a core chip blank into an elongated hole provided in a slider blank, joining the core chip blank and the slider blank together with glass and then grinding the surface to form a surface which makes sliding-contact with a recording medium. Glass for joining the core chip blank and the slider blank together is obtained by melting a glass rod mounted in a predetermined position on the slider blank. In order to prevent the core chip from being positionally moved by surface tension of the molten glass when the glass rod is melted, the edges of the elongated hole are partially provided with protrusions for positioning the glass rod so as to prevent surface tension of the molten glass from positionally moving the core chip.
Abstract:
The apparatus and method for assembling magnetic tape drive read/write head modules of the present invention uses an assembly fixture that enables a worker to completely assemble and align the read/write head module in a single step process. This is accomplished by providing an assembly fixture that securely holds the rectangular shaped read/write head frame in a fixed position. A read head and write head alignment tool is pivotally attached to the assembly fixture for magnetically suspending the read head and write head in the rectangular shaped opening in the read/write head frame in a predetermined position. This alignment tool includes an aperture such that the worker can view the transducing gaps on the read head and the write head for alignment purposes. Two sets of threaded rods are included in this assembly apparatus to modify the lateral position of the read head and the write head such that the transducing gaps on these two heads are in exact alignment with respect to each other. Once the alignment process is completed, a leaf spring is inserted between one inner wall of the rectangular shaped read/write head frame and the read/write heads and the read and write heads are adhesively secured to each other to maintain the alignment of their transducing gaps.
Abstract:
A composite magnetic head is integrally formed with a recording/reproducing head section having a recording/reproducing gap and an erasing head section having two erasing gaps. The magnetic head has formed in its surface facing a magnetic recording medium two parallel diagonal grooves extending across the two head sections which are inclined with respect to the gaps and spaced apart so as to define the outer ends of the recording/reproducing gap and respective inner ends of each of the erasing gaps.
Abstract:
A magnetic head comprising a pair of erasing cores, a coupling body coupling the pair of erasing cores together, the coupling body having a groove, and a recording and reproducing core fitted into the groove in the coupling body so as to form an erasing gap on each side of the recording and reproducing core. At least the periphery of the groove is formed by a nonmagnetic material having a glass erosion resistance.
Abstract:
A magnetic head device according to the present invention comprises a head core formed of a magnetic material. The head core includes a sliding portion having a magnetic gap defined therein and adapted to be in sliding contact with a magnetic record medium, and a pair of leg portions formed integrally with the sliding portion. A coil is wound around one of the leg portions of the head core. The head core is held between a pair of holder shells, which each have one end coupled to the sliding portion of the head core and the other end extending toward the other ends of the two leg portions of the head core to be coupled thereto. At least one of the holder shells is formed integrally with a connecting portion which, formed of a magnetic material, constitutes part of the other end of the holder shell, so that the connecting portion and the head core define a closed magnetic path passing through the magnetic gap.
Abstract:
Write windings are deposited on a ferrite half yoke mounted on a titanium body, and magnetoresistive elements are deposited on another ferrite half yoke mounted on another titanium body. A center section comprising a sandwich of silver-copper shielding material between two ferrite sheets has glass-filled slots cut on one side thereof. The center shield is placed between the write and read sides with the write windings placed between pairs of glass-filled slots and with the magnetoresistive elements in contact with the opposite surface of the center shield. The write windings and the magnetoresistive elements are connected to connector blocks prior to final assembly, and the write and read sides and the center section are pressured together by bolts through two end pieces, forming a vise-like structure.