Magnetic disk device with magnetic head size arrangement
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
InventorHiroshi Isokawa
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, among a plurality of magnetic heads, the larger the magnetic pole width of the magnetic pole of the magnetic head in the width direction of a recording track formed in a recording layer or the larger an area width of the magnetic head capable of reading the magnetic characteristics of an area of the recording layer on which magnetic recording has been carried out by means of the magnetic head, the farther is the magnetic head arranged outwardly from the vicinity of the center in the parallel arrangement direction of the magnetic disks.
Claims4
A magnetic disk device comprising:
- a plurality of magnetic disks each including a recording layer, arranged at intervals from each other and rotating around a same axis of rotation;
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- a plurality of magnetic heads each including a magnetic pole configured to generate a recording magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the recording layer, and arranged at intervals corresponding to the recording layers, which differ in width of the magnetic pole in a radial direction of a recording track formed in the recording layer, or in width of an area in the radial direction in which magnetic characteristics magnetically recorded by the magnetic head in the recording layer can be read in the area, wherein
- among the plurality of magnetic heads, a magnetic head with a larger width of the magnetic pole, or a magnetic head with a larger width of the area, is positioned corresponding to the recording layer of a magnetic disk located further away from near a middle position of an interval between the magnetic disks arranged at both ends in a direction along the same axis of rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.