Flat profile tape head
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorRobert Glenn Biskeborn
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Abstract
A magnetic head according to one embodiment includes a first module having a tape bearing surface; a second module having a tape bearing surface; and a third module having a tape bearing surface, the third module being positioned on an opposite side of the second module than the first module, wherein the tape bearing surface of the first module is substantially parallel to a tape oriented at a desired wrap angle relative to the tape bearing surface of the second module at an edge of the tape bearing surface of the second module closest to the first module, wherein writing and reading functions are performed by different modules at a given time.
Claims13
A magnetic head, comprising:
- a first module having a tape bearing surface;
- a second module having a tape bearing surface;
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- a third module having a tape bearing surface, the third module being positioned on an opposite side of the second module than the first module,
- wherein the tape bearing surface of the first module is substantially parallel to a tape oriented at a desired wrap angle relative to the tape bearing surface of the second module at an edge of the tape bearing surface of the second module closest to the first module,
- wherein writing and reading functions are performed by different modules at a given time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.