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US 5,111,352 AGranted
Three-pole magnetic head with reduced flux leakage
AssigneeDigital Equipment Corporation
InventorsShyam C. Das, Michael L. Mallary
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Abstract
A magnetic recording head including a read pole disposed in a gap between a pair of write poles, and a sensor spaced away from the gap, the read pole adapted to conduct flux to the sensor, each write pole forming a respective cavity between itself and the read pole where the outside of at least one pole is tapered down toward the pole tip, the poles being closer together at their tips than they are near the sensor.
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A magnetic recording head comprising
- a pair of write poles which extend in spaced relationship from a yoke region to a corresponding pair of tips that are separated by a gap,
- a read pole disposed in said gap,
- a sensor spaced away from the gap toward said yoke region, the read pole being adapted to conduct flux to the sensor, and
- at least one of said write poles being configured so that the spacing between said write poles at their tips is less than the spacing between said write poles nearer to said sensor to provide a narrow track definition.
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A device for reading flux from magnetically stored data, comprising
- a magnetic head having a yoke region tapering to a tip region,
- at least a first magnetic structure and a second magnetic structure extending in spaced relationship from the yoke region to the tip region, the spacing at the tip region being narrower that the spacing toward the yoke region,
- a first one of the magnetic structures serving as a read pole and having a slot formed therein in said yoke region, and
- a sensor coupled to the read pole adjacent to the slot whereby, in use, the sensor senses flux from the stored data as the flux passes from the read pole tip region to the read pole yoke region past the slot, surfaces of the read pole that define the slot being tapered to meet the sensor.
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A device for reading flux from magnetically stored data comprising
- a magnetic head having a yoke region tapering to a tip region,
- at least a first magnetic structure and a second magnetic structure extending in spaced relationship from the yoke region to the tip region, the spacing at the tip region being narrower than the spacing toward the yoke region,
- a first one of the magnetic structures serving as a read pole,
- a sensor coupled to the read pole, and
- an insulation substrate having a surface that defines a recessed contour, said read pole being disposed over the surface and having a configuration that generally follows said recessed contour.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.