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7390529 Free layer for CPP GMR having iron rich NiFe  
By using a free layer that includes a NiFe layer containing between 65 and 72 atomic percent iron, an improved CPP GMR device has been created. The resulting structure yields a higher CPP GMR ratio...
7383626 Methods for fabricating giant magnetoresistive (GMR) devices  
In a method of fabricating a giant magnetoresistive (GMR) device a plurality of magnetoresistive device layers is deposited on a first silicon nitride layer formed on a silicon oxide layer. An etch...
7380330 Method for making magnetic write head  
After defining the P2 pole of a magnetic read head, alumina is deposited over it and planarized by CMP, with the portion of the alumina overlaying the ABS region of the P2 pole subsequently being...
7370406 Method of manufacturing a thin film structure  
A thin film magnetic head is described, the magnetic head having an insulating layer and a protrusion which has an upper portion and a base portion, and the upper portion has an extended portion....
7370404 Method for resetting pinned layer magnetization in a magnetoresistive sensor  
A spin valve sensor in a read head has a spacer layer which is located between a self-pinned AP pinned layer structure and a free layer structure. The free layer structure is longitudinally...
7365948 Exchange-coupled film, method for making exchange-coupled film, and magnetic sensing element including exchange-coupled film  
An exchange-coupled film includes a seed layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, and a ferromagnetic layer. The seed layer is formed at a thickness that is larger than the critical thickness, and the...
7362544 Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head  
A thermal flying height adjustment slider capable of being mounted on a small-sized thin film magnetic head slider is provided wherein terminals of an energizer serving as a heater prevent...
7355813 Method of fabricating a narrow projection such as a write pole extending from a substrate  
An article is formed as a substrate having a projection extending outwardly therefrom. The article may be a magnetic recording head and the projection a write pole. The projection has a width in a...
7343665 Method of making current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive head  
The lower electrode is at least exposed at the surface of a substructure layer in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane structure magnetoresistive element. A resist is formed to extend over the...
7340822 Insulator and manufacturing method thereof, and stator for electric rotating machine  
A stator for a motor includes a stator core, an insulator, and coils. The stator core includes an annular portion and teeth, which extend radially from the annular portion. The stator core is...
7337530 Method for manufacturing a shielded pole magnetic head for perpendicular recording  
A method of making a perpendicular magnetic recording head for use in a data storage device includes forming a first pole layer, a second pole layer, a third pole layer, and a shield layer of a...
7333306 Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor with tri-layer free layer  
A TMR sensor, a CPP GMR sensor and a CCP CPP GMR sensor all include a tri-layered free layer that is of the form CoFe/CoFeB/NiFe, where the atom percentage of Fe can vary between 5% and 90% and the...
7325296 Method of fabricating a magnetic head  
A magnetic head having a magnetic shield and/or pole layer that is fabricated as a plurality of laminated layers, in which each layer includes a sublayer thickness of Fe(N) and a sublayer thickness...
7323067 Method of manufacturing magneto-resistance effect type head  
A method of manufacturing a magneto-resistance effect type head that includes an element portion of magneto-resistance effect type and reproduces a read signal of data from a recording medium by...
7322097 Method of manufacturing a magnetic head having short pole yoke length  
The induction coil of the magnetic head of the present invention is fabricated in a patterned electrical insulation material, preferably utilizing reactive ion etch (RIE) techniques. The electrical...
7322095 Process of manufacturing a four-sided shield structure for a perpendicular write head  
A process for reducing fringe field effects of a main write pole by shielding it on all four sides, with the regular return pole also serving as the leading edge shield, is described. The main pole...
7320167 Longitudinal bias structure having stability with minimal effect on output  
It is necessary to stabilize the free layer of GMR or TMR devices by providing a longitudinal bias field. As read tracks become very narrow, this field can drastically reduce the strength of the...
7308751 Magnetic head and method of manufacturing same, head suspension assembly and magnetic disk apparatus  
A magnetic head has less variations in the resistance of a magneto-resistive device before and after the magnetic head is left in a high temperature environment so as to have higher stability of...
7301734 Longitudinal bias structure with improved magnetic stability  
A GMR sensor having improved longitudinal biasing is provided as is a method of forming it. The improved biasing is provided by longitudinal biasing structures in which a soft magnetic layer is...
7296336 Method to protect a GMR head from electrostatic damage during the manufacturing process  
A simple method is provided for protecting slider mounted read/write transducers from electrostatic discharge damage during the manufacture of disk drives. The method involves placing a ball of...
7290325 Methods of manufacturing magnetic heads with reference and monitoring devices  
According to one aspect, an exemplary method for manufacturing a magnetic head includes forming a plurality of magnetoresistive devices, a reference device, and a monitoring device, where the...
7290324 Method for fabricating a magnetic head including a media heating element  
A magnetic head including a media heating device. Following the fabrication of the heating device, a sacrificial layer of material is deposited to protect the heating device during subsequent...
7283334 Method for fabricating seed layer for spin valve sensor for magnetic heads for hard disk drives  
A magnetic head having a spin valve sensor that is fabricated utilizing an Al 2 O 3 , NiMnO, NiFeCr seed layer upon which a typical PtMn spin valve sensor layer structure is subsequently...
7283330 Method of manufacturing a suspension using coining  
A method of manufacturing a suspension member designed to carry a slider and read/write head elements in a magnetic data storage device. The method includes forming the suspension member into a...
7275305 Method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head  
A method of manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head, the thin-film magnetic head including a magnetoresistive element, first and second shield layers for shielding the magnetoresistive element, a...
7271983 Magnetic head with mini-outriggers and method of manufacture  
An exemplary magnetic head assembly for use with magnetic recording media is provided. In one example, a head includes a data island associated with at least one data transducer, the data island...
7262938 Flying-type disk drive slider with self-blending contact pad  
The invention is generally directed to a slider that is particularly suited for dynamic load/unload disk drive designs. This slider desirably addresses potential disk damage associated with contact...
7260886 Fastening a magnetic disk to a hub structure  
Embodiments of the invention provide a clamping mechanism capable of clamping a magnetic disk by an accurate fastening force. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk fastening method includes the steps...
7260885 System and method for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer  
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method of manufacturing a disk drive coupling apparatus for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer. In one embodiment, a disk...
7256963 Magnetic head with adaptive data island and mini-outrigger and methods of manufacture  
In one aspect, an exemplary method of manufacturing a magnetic head assembly is provided. In one example, the method includes forming islands in a magnetic head structure to define a pair of...
7249405 Method for manufacturing a magnetic medium  
Disclosed is a magnetic recording medium and a method for manufacturing the same to provide a magnetic recording medium reducing medium noise and having excellent thermal stability. The magnetic...
7243412 Method of manufacturing a magnetic head using a magneto-resistive effect  
A method of manufacturing a magnetic head including a magnetic sensing portion formed of a magnetoresistive effect element, a magnetoresistive effect magnetic head manufacturing method depositing,...
7243411 Method for protecting write head coil during write pole/shaping  
A method for protecting a write head coil during write pole notching using ion mill resistant mask formed by reactive ion etching is disclosed. Ion mill shaping of the write pole is performed after...
7241359 Method of manufacturing hard disc device with a printed wiring board fixed thereto  
An insulating sheet is manufactured by attaching a buffer layer and a resin film using an adhesive layer that is not adhesive at a normal ambient temperature. Since there is no need to use a...
7240417 Collocated metal frame PZT micro-actuator with a lower stiffness suspension design and method of manufacture of same  
A framing assembly with lower stiffness design and a method of manufacturing that framing assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment, a framing assembly pattern is cut from a piece of a thin planar...
7237321 Method for fabricating a CPP magnetic transducer using CMP-assisted lift-off and a CMP-resistant metal layer  
A method is described which uses a CMP resistant metal layer to replace the upper dielectric layer in the track width definition phase of a TMR or CPP spin valve magnetic head. The metal which is...
7235208 Dust core  
A dust core consists essentially of ferromagnetic powder; and an insulating binder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is dispersed; wherein the insulating binder is a silicone resin comprising a...
7234228 Method of fabricating novel seed layers for fabricating spin valve heads  
A method for forming a bottom spin valve sensor element with a novel seed layer and synthetic antiferromagnetic pinned layer. The novel seed layer comprises an approximately 30 angstrom thick layer...
7233458 High magnetic moment Co-Fe-O-N films with soft magnetic properties  
A write element includes a first pole pedestal and a second pole pedestal opposing the first pole pedestal and defining a write gap between the first and second pole pedestals. A first layer of...
7217666 Reactive ion milling/RIE assisted CMP  
A method for forming a high aspect ratio magnetic structure in a magnetic write head using a combination of chemical mechanical polishing and reactive ion etching.
7213326 Method of manufacturing a horizontal thin film write, MR read head  
A horizontal combined head is provided which has both a thin film write and an MR read element located at an air bearing surface (ABS). The read element can be formed with a track width that is...
7200919 Method of fabricating a magnetic transducer with multilayer conductive leads including a tantalum layer, a chromium layer and a rhodium layer  
A method of fabricating a magnetic transducer (head) according to the invention includes forming multilayered electrically conductive leads for the magnetic sensor which include a thin tantalum...
7197813 Method of accurate evaluation on magnetoresistive read element  
The magnetoresistance is measured for a magnetoresistive layered-structure, such as a spin valve film, prior to formation of an upper shield layer as well as patterning of a lower shield layer. The...
7196872 Sliders bonded by a debondable encapsulant comprising different polymers formed via in situ polymerization  
A slider assembly is provided comprising a plurality of sliders bonded by a debondable solid encapsulant comprised of different first and second polymers The solid encapsulant is comprised of a...
7193814 Pole piece for high track density recording  
For high track density recording, tighter reader and writer track width control are essential. This has been achieved by using a plated NiPd write gap which is self-aligned with a plated 23 KG pole...
7191508 Method for manufacturing thin-film magnetic head sliders  
A method for manufacturing thin-film magnetic head sliders is disclosed. Initially, an elastic layer, which may be made of poly-dimethyl siloxane (PDMS), is spun on a wafer and is thermally cured....
7187524 Giant magnetoresistance sensor with stitched longitudinal bias stacks and its fabrication process  
A giant magnetoresistance (GMR) magnetic head that includes a GMR read sensor with a stitched longitudinal bias (LB) stack. The GMR read sensor includes seed, pinning, pinned, spacer, sense and cap...
7186348 Method for fabricating a pole tip in a magnetic transducer  
A method for fabricating a magnetic head with a trapezoidal shaped pole piece tip is described. The body of the main pole piece is deposited, then one or more layers for the pole piece tip are...
7184248 Synthetic pattern exchange configuration for side reading reduction  
A patterned, synthetic, longitudinally exchange biased GMR sensor is provided which has a narrow effective trackwidth and reduced side reading. The advantageous properties of the sensor are...
7181827 Method of forming magnetic layer pattern  
Provided is a method of manufacturing a thin film magnetic head capable of achieving compatibility between preventing the occurrence of side erasing and securing overwrite characteristics. When a...
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