Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
360125300 | Accessory feature | 21 |
20080297945 | Method to make a perpendicular magnetic recording head with a bottom side shield - A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head is fabricated with a pole tip shielded laterally by a separated pair of bottom side shields and shielded from above by an upper shield. The bottom side shields surround a lower portion of the pole tip while the upper portion of the pole tip is surrounded by non-magnetic layers. The bottom shields and the non-magnetic layer form wedge-shaped trench in which the pole tip is formed by a self-aligned plating process. The wedge shape is formed by a RIE process using specific gases applied through a masking layer formed of material that has a slower etch rate than the non-magnetic material or the shield material. A masking layer of Ta, Ru/Ta, TaN or Ti, formed on a non-magnetic layer of alumina that is formed on a shield layer of NiFe and using RIE gases of CH | 12-04-2008 |
20090059427 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head and method for manufacturing the same - Embodiments of the present invention help to provide a perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of writing a signal in a track having a small width. According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording head includes an auxiliary pole, a main pole, a yoke, a coil, a first soft magnetic film and a second soft magnetic film. The yoke is in contact with the main pole. The coil is wound around a magnetic circuit composed of the auxiliary and main poles and the yoke. The first soft magnetic film is provided on both sides of the main pole with a non-magnetic film provided between the first soft magnetic film and the main pole. The second soft magnetic film is provided on the trailing side of the main pole with the non-magnetic film provided between the second soft magnetic film and the main pole. The first and second soft magnetic films are two types of plated magnetic films. One type of the plated magnetic films have respective thicknesses of 0.5 nm to 20 nm and respective body centered cubic lattice crystal structures. The other types of the plated magnetic films have respective thicknesses of 0.5 nm to 20 nm and respective face centered cubic lattice crystal structures. The two types of the plated magnetic films are alternately laminated with four or more layers. This can achieve the magnetic disk drive capable of reducing a possibility to erroneously delete a signal after the signal being written and preventing degradation of characteristics of a high frequency signal. | 03-05-2009 |
20090097159 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A manufacturing method for a perpendicular magnetic recording head includes the steps of forming a groove in a first nonmagnetic layer, forming a side shield, forming a second nonmagnetic layer, forming a main-magnetic-pole front end portion and forming a main-magnetic-pole yoke portion. The groove extends in a front-rear direction orthogonal to an air bearing surface. The side shield of soft magnetic material, the second nonmagnetic layer and the main-magnetic-pole front end portion of soft magnetic material are formed on an inner wall of the groove. The main-magnetic-pole front end portion is not magnetostatically coupled to the side shield. The main-magnetic-pole yoke portion magnetically is insulated from the side shield and magnetically connected to the main-magnetic-pole front end portion. The main-magnetic-pole yoke portion widens from the main-magnetic-pole front end portion toward a rear side. | 04-16-2009 |
20090154013 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same - Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording head which can suppress reduction in recording field and efficiently reduce a fringe field. According to one embodiment, a side shield disposed at a side of each side face in a cross track direction of a main pole is arranged at a far leading side compared with the main pole. | 06-18-2009 |
20090296275 | THIN-FILM MAGNETIC HEAD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLY, AND HARD DISK DRIVE - A thin-film magnetic head is constructed such that a main magnetic pole layer having a magnetic pole end face on a side of a medium-opposing surface opposing a recording medium, a write shield layer opposing the main magnetic pole layer on the medium-opposing surface side, a gap layer formed between the main magnetic pole layer and write shield layer, and a thin-film coil wound about the write shield layer or main magnetic pole layer are laminated on a substrate. This thin-film magnetic head has an equidistant two-stage structure in which a first turn part of a first conductor layer and a second turn part of a second conductor layer overlap vertically along the medium-opposing surface while having the same front distance from respective front side faces closer to the medium-opposing surface to the medium-opposing surface. | 12-03-2009 |
20100027163 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD HAVING REINFORCING ISLANDS - A method for protecting a thin film structure including fabricating a plurality of island structures in a recording gap of a magnetic recording head, exposing a substantial portion of the plurality of island structures by removing at least a portion of the surrounding recording gap material via at least one etching process, including ion milling, coating the magnetic recording head containing the plurality of island structures with a coating material, including silicon nitride or aluminum oxide, and removing at least a portion of the coating material via a removal process, including chemical-mechanical polishing or lapping, to expose an uppermost region of at least a portion of said plurality of island structures. | 02-04-2010 |
20100061016 | Method to make an integrated side shield PMR head with non conformal side gap - A non-conformal integrated side shield structure is disclosed for a PMR write head wherein the sidewalls of the side shield are not parallel to the pole tip sidewalls. Thus, the side gap distance between the leading pole tip edge and side shield is different than the side gap distance between the trailing pole tip edge and side shield. As a result, there is a reduced side fringing field and improved overwrite performance. The side gap distance is constant with increasing distance from the ABS along the main pole layer. A fabrication method is provided where the trailing shield and side shield are formed in the same step to afford a self-aligned shield structure. Adjacent track erasure induced by flux choking at the side shield and trailing shield interface can be eliminated by this design. The invention encompasses a tapered main pole layer in a narrow pole tip section. | 03-11-2010 |
20100157474 | METHOD OF MULTI-ANGLED BUMP PROCESSING FOR MAGNETIC POLE FABRICATION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF - A system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic pole; a bump structure above the pole, the bump structure having a first surface oriented at a first angle between 1° and 89° from a plane of deposition of the pole, and a second surface oriented at a second angle between 1° and 89° from the plane of deposition of the pole, wherein the second angle is greater than the first angle; and a shield above the bump structure. A method according to one embodiment includes forming a bump layer above a magnetic pole; removing a portion of the bump layer for forming a step therein; and milling the bump layer for defining thereon a first surface oriented at a first angle between 1° and 89° from a plane of deposition of the bump layer, and a second surface oriented at a second angle between 1° and 89° from the plane of deposition of the bump layer, wherein the second angle is greater than the first angle. | 06-24-2010 |
20110063756 | MAGNETIC WRITE DEVICE WITH A CLADDED WRITE ASSIST ELEMENT - A magnetic device includes a write element having a write element tip and a conductor adjacent an edge of the write element tip for carrying current to generate an assist field that augments a write field generated by the write element. A cladding material is disposed on at least one surface of the conductor. | 03-17-2011 |
20110188156 | Shield design for magnetic recording head - A magnetic shield in which all domain patterns and orientations are stable and which are consistently repeated each time the shield is exposed to an initialization field, is disclosed. This is achieved by giving it a suitable shape which ensures that all closure domains can align themselves at a reduced angle relative to the initialization direction while still being roughly antiparallel to each other. Most, though not all, of these shapes are variations on trapezoids. | 08-04-2011 |
20120268844 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - An example magnetic writing head includes a main magnetic pole, a coil to generate an ampere magnetic field to magnetize the main magnetic pole to cause the magnetized main magnetic pole to generate a magnetic field, and a laminated body. The laminated body includes a first magnetic layer having a coercivity lower than the magnetic field applied by the main magnetic pole and a second magnetic layer having a coercivity lower than the magnetic field applied by the main magnetic pole. | 10-25-2012 |
20130050875 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND DISK DRIVE PROVIDED THEREWITH - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium, a trailing shield opposed to the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a high-frequency oscillator between the main pole and the trailing shield in a range of a width of the main pole in a track width direction, and configured to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The high-frequency oscillator includes a spin injection layer, an intermediate layer, and an oscillation layer, and at least the oscillation layer comprises divided oscillation regions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130279045 | MAGNETIC HEAD HAVING A CONTACT DETECTION SENSOR - A head for magnetic thermally assisted magnetic data recording, having a read element, a write element a heater element for controlling thermal protrusion of the read and write elements and a thermal sensor for detecting contact a portion of the head with a magnetic media. The thermal contact sensor is arranged so that the thermal conduction between the thermal contact sensor and the read element is substantially equal to the thermal conductivity between the thermal contact sensor and the write element. In this way the accuracy of the detection of thermal contact is maintained whether the read element makes contact with the disk or the write element makes contact with disk. | 10-24-2013 |
20140376129 | MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium and a reproducing head. The recording medium includes a concentric circular plurality of tracks. The reproducing head includes a spin torque oscillator and reproduces information from the recording medium using the spin torque oscillator, the spin torque oscillator including an oscillation layer with a first cross-track direction width, a polarizer layer with a second cross-track direction width, and a spacer layer provided between the oscillation layer and the polarizer layer. The first cross-track direction width is larger than double the second cross-track direction width, and the second cross-track direction width is smaller than an inter-track distance. | 12-25-2014 |
20150138672 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND DISK DRIVE PROVIDED THEREWITH - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium, a trailing shield opposed to the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a high-frequency oscillator between the main pole and the trailing shield in a range of a width of the main pole in a track width direction, and configured to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The high-frequency oscillator includes a spin injection layer, an intermediate layer, and an oscillation layer, and at least the oscillation layer comprises divided oscillation regions. | 05-21-2015 |
20160035375 | Data Storage Device with Phase Lock Spin-Torque Oscillation Stabilization - A data storage device can be configured at least with a first spin-torque oscillator disposed between and contacting a write pole and a shield on an air bearing surface. A second spin-torque oscillator can be disposed between and contact the write pole and shield with the second spin-torque oscillator separated from the air bearing surface by a first stabilization distance and from the first spin-torque oscillator by a second stabilization distance. The first and second spin-torque oscillators can be configured to magnetostatically couple and phase lock to produce a single microwave frequency in response to a bias field. | 02-04-2016 |
20160086623 | NEGATIVE-PORALIZATION SPIN-TORQUE-OSCILLATOR - Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a MAMR head. The MAMR head includes an STO. The STO has a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and an interlayer disposed between the first and second magnetic layers. One of the first and second magnetic layers is made of a negative polarization material while the other magnetic layer is made of a positive polarization material. As a result, the magnetizations in the first and second magnetic layers are in the same direction when in oscillation, which suppresses the partial cancellation of the magnetizations in the first and second magnetic layers and strengthens the AC magnetic field. | 03-24-2016 |
20170236537 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE | 08-17-2017 |
360125310 | Heat generating structure | 2 |
20120224279 | MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD - An example magnetic recording head includes a main magnetic pole containing a ferromagnetic layer and a main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion containing an anti-ferromagnetic layer in contact with at least one side surface of the main magnetic pole. A heater for the main magnetic pole is configured so as to include an oxide layer with a metal path therein embedded in or provided in the vicinity of the main magnetic pole-magnetization fixing portion and a pair of electrodes, provided in the vicinity of the oxide layer, for flowing a current parallel to a surface of a recording medium through the metal path. A magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field so as to direct a magnetization of the main magnetic pole in one direction. | 09-06-2012 |
20140043712 | METHOD AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE FOR LASER FREE HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING - A data storage device with a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) system, a magnetic recording medium, and method for data storage are provided. The data storage device includes a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic recording head, a power supply, a controller and a switching device. The magnetic recording head includes a main pole having a surface area facing the magnetic recording medium. The controller is coupled to the magnetic recording head for controlling writing information to and reading information from the magnetic recording medium. The switching device electrically couples the power supply between the main pole and the magnetic recording medium in response to a signal provided from the controller when writing information to the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium comprises a plurality of layers, including a heating layer, a field enhanced conduction layer, and an electrode layer. The electrode layer is electrically coupleable to the power supply and the magnetic recording head for heating a portion of the heating layer opposite the magnetic recording head during writing of data by the magnetic recording head to the magnetic recording medium, the portion of the heating layer defined by an electric field applied to the field enhanced conduction layer. | 02-13-2014 |
360125320 | Heat transfer structure | 1 |
20150380019 | MAGNETIC STACK INCLUDING COOLING ELEMENT - Various embodiments of a magnetic stack are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the magnetic stack includes first and second shield layers, and a magnetically responsive lamination disposed between the first and second shield layers. The magnetically responsive lamination can be configured to receive a sense current I | 12-31-2015 |