Device for transporting magnetic head, device for inspecting magnetic head, and method for manufacturing magnetic head

A method for manufacturing a magnetic head, comprising:

• a wafer process, comprising processes of film forming, milling, and washing;
• a row bar process, comprising cutting a strip-like row bar from a wafer after the wafer process, and performing processes of lapping, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) surface processing, washing, and carbon protective film forming on the row bar;
• a recording head test process, comprising receiving the row bar from a tray mechanism vertically installed in a manner that a long edge of a section, that is, a rectangle, of the strip-like row bar vertical to a length direction is vertical to a horizontal line, converting a posture of the row bar into a horizontal installation state installed in a manner that the long edge is parallel to the horizontal line, transporting, to be in a horizontal installation state, the row bar in the horizontal installation state to a carrying portion of an inspection stage, and detecting an effective track width of the magnetic head in the strip-like row bar using a magnetic force microscope (MFM), a scanning Hall probe microscope (SHPM), or a scanning magneto-resistive microscope (SMRM);
• a read element test process, comprising detecting electromagnetic conversion characteristics of a read element with respect to the strip-like row bar;
• a slider process, comprising cutting and processing the strip-like row bar into chip-like ones, and performing washing and inspection;
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• a head gimbal assembly process, comprising jointing the processed chip-like magnetic heads and a suspension, and performing washing and inspection.