Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Kaminaka

Nobuyuki Kaminaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4964007
    Abstract: A magnetic head having head core constituted by a magnetic material sandwiched on both sides thereof by a substrate material and the magnetic material and the substrate materials are bonded by crystallized glass containing crystals such as gahnite, willemite or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Satomi, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4947542
    Abstract: A magnetic head having head core constituted by a sandwiched magnetic material on both side thereof by a substrate materials such as, and the magnetic material and the substrate materials are bonded by crystallized glass containing crystals such as gahnite, willemite or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Satomi, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4897748
    Abstract: A magnetic head for the video tape recorder of azimuth recording type, which features an improved S/N ratio in the overwrite region and assures a high picture quality has a magnetic core for defining a magnetic gap in this head which is made of a plurality of magnetic materials differing in saturation flux density in the direction of track width, with the material having a higher saturation flux density being disposed on the overwriting side of the head. This arrangement permits recording to a greater depth than the depth of magnetization by previous recording to assure an improved picture quality with a higher S/N ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Hiroshi Yohda, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4847983
    Abstract: A magnetic head having head core constituted by a sandwiched magnetic material on both side thereof by a substrate materials such as, and the magnetic material and the substrate materials are bonded by crystallized glass containing crystals such as gahnite, willemite or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Satomi, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4745506
    Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic head of high recording and reproducing efficiency which integrally incorporates a step-up transformer. A main pole for picking up a reproduce magnetic flux from a recording medium and applying recording magnetic field thereto is formed of a magnetic thin film. A signal winding formed of a thin film is disposed in the immediate vicinity of the forward end of the main pole so as to have a high conversion sensitivity per turn with respect to the reproduce magnetic flux from the recording medium. The signal winding which itself constitutes a closed circuit interlinks a magnetic path of the step-up transformer, thereby forming a primary winding of the transformer. A secondary winding from which head output is taken out is wound in the magnetic path of the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Seishi Sasaki, Ken Takahashi, Hiroshi Yohda, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4716484
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic head comprising a magnetic core of accumulation layers forming a magnetic circuit and including at least two layers of magnetic film with a particular magnetic characteristic. The constitution of completely covering a magnetic film with a small pattern by a magnetic film with a large pattern makes the edge part smooth because the end of the underlying magnetic film is covered with the upper magnetic film. This edge-smoothing effect appears most pronounced in a manufacturing method in which electrodeposition is used for the formation of magnetic films. By sequentially forming the magnetic films from that of a smaller pattern towards that of a larger pattern, the film formation proceeds at step parts such as end parts of the underlying magnetic films due to the levelling action which is inherent in the electrodeposition method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Yasuo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 4672496
    Abstract: A thin magnetic film is deposited over a nonmagnetic or piezoelectric substrate. When a shock wave is propagated through this substrate from its one end to the other end, the permeability of the thin magnetic film is locally increased and a portion or region having a high permeability also travels from one end to the other end of the thin magnetic film in unison with the shock wave. A magnetic core with a signal winding is disposed and magnetically coupled with the thin magnetic film. The signal can be recorded or reproduced while the recording medium is scanned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Noboru Nomura, Yuuji Omata
  • Patent number: 4663683
    Abstract: In a magnetic head which utilizes the magnetoresistive effect of a ferromagnetic thin film, it is possible to realize a magnetoresistive effect type thin film magnetic head with favorable secondary distortion characteristics by forming on at least one surface of the ferromagnetic thin film, a grating forming an angle larger than 60.degree. and smaller than 80.degree. with respect to the direction of the electric current flowing through the thin film. By setting the grating into more than two different directions, a magnetic head capable of functioning at a still smaller distortion is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Youda, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Satoru Mitani
  • Patent number: 4622613
    Abstract: In a magnetoresistive (MR) effect head, electrodes for supplying a current to an MR element and a bias current conductor are not exposed at a contact surface of the MR head which is brought into sliding contact with a magnetic recording medium, thus preventing surface roughening of the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Nomura, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka
  • Patent number: 4558385
    Abstract: In a thin film magnetic head in which a lower magnetic layer is formed on a non-magnetic substrate through a non-magnetic layer, and a conductive layer constituting a signal winding and an upper magnetic layer are formed on the lower magnetic layer, the lower magnetic layer is formed within a recess formed in the non-magnetic layer. The recess may pass through the magnetic layer. The lower magnetic layer formed within the recess in the non-magnetic layer can considerably reduce raised portions associated with respective upper layers so that the thin film magnetic head can be improved in magnetic efficienty and yield rate during manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Kenji Kanai, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4504540
    Abstract: The invention provides a thin film element which includes a thin film of an organic material, which has a multilayered structure of thin films, and which has a protective film of multilayered structure having films of at least two nonmagnetic materials, or of a thin film of a mixture of at least two nonmagnetic insulating materials. The protective film has a low internal stress, and the step coverage and adhesion strength thereof at edges of the high step portion is excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Kenji Kanai, Noboru Nomura, Yuji Omata
  • Patent number: 4490760
    Abstract: A thin-film magnetic head having a magnetic substrate made from ferrite, iron-aluminum-silicon alloy or like material, and an upper magnetic layer formed on the magnetic substrate with a lower magnetic layer and a conductive layer interposed therebetween. A portion of the upper magnetic layer is jointed to the magnetic substrate while another portion of the upper magnetic layer is jointed to the lower magnetic layer through a non-magnetic layer of SiO.sub.2 or like material constituting a magnetic gap. The lower magnetic layer, magnetic substrate, upper magnetic layer and the non-magnetic layer in combination form a closed magnetic circuit. A groove is defined between the lower magnetic layer and the magnetic substrate, and formed in the side surface of the magnetic substrate adapted to face a magnetic recording medium. The recess is filled with a non-magnetic material such as glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Kenji Kanai, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4477794
    Abstract: The invention provides a magnetoresistive element which magnetostatically has magnetic anisotropy to control a domain structure and which eliminates Barkhousen noise that will cause abrupt movement of domain walls and irregular magnetization due to a change in the signal magnetic field, wherein a grating pattern is formed on at least one surface of a magnetoresistive film by a process in which a grating pattern is unidirectionally formed on the surface of a substrate and the magnetoresistive film of a ferromagnetic body is deposited thereon. Further, various magnetoresistive elements to which a novel bias method is applied are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Nomura, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Yuji Omata
  • Patent number: 4422117
    Abstract: A thin film magnetic head has a substrate with thin film layers deposited thereon and a protector layer bonded by a bonding layer to the substrate, with the thin film layers interposed therebetween. The thin film layers includes components of an electromagnetic transducing means. The bonding layer is a glass having a working temperature at which a magnetic layer included in the thin film layers does not have the magnetic characteristics deteriorated to any substantial degree.The fusing of the glass for making the bonding layer is performed at a temperature below 450.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Nomura, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Norimoto Nouchi
  • Patent number: 4409632
    Abstract: A magnetic head arrangement includes a spiral coil made of a thin layer and having a central opening. The spiral coil is deposited on a first layer of magnetic material in an electrically insulated manner. The arrangement further includes a second layer of magnetic material having a width wider than that of the central opening of the spiral coil and deposited on the spiral coil in an electrically insulated manner. A portion of the second layer located in the central opening of the spiral coil is magnetically connected with the first layer and another portion of the second layer located outside the spiral coil is held above the first layer to form a predetermined gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Norimoto Nouchi, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4402801
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a thin film magnetic head with a low step structure having a first nonmagnetic insulating layer, a lower magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic insulating layer of a thickness corresponding to a gap length, a second nonmagnetic insulating layer, a conductive layer which constitutes a coil, a third nonmagnetic insulating layer, and an upper magnetic layer, each of which is sequentially formed on a nonmagnetic conductive substrate in the order named. A conductive layer is formed in a recess whose bottom surface corresponds to an exposed upper surface of the nonmagnetic conductive substrate and which is formed in a predetermined portion of the first nonmagnetic insulating layer formed on the nonmagnetic conductive substrate. Thereafter, electroplating is performed to form a yoke portion of the lower magnetic layer in the recess by applying a voltage to the conductive layer as an electrode through the nonmagnetic conductive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Omata, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Kenji Kanai, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4394699
    Abstract: A thin-film magnetic head employing a magneto-resistive element (MR element), which comprises a substrate, a layer of MR element deposited on said substrate and a conductor layer for supplying said MR element with an electric current in the longitudinal direction thereof. The substrate has at least two crystal axes in the plane parallel to the surface on which said magnetoresistive element is disposed. The respective coefficients of thermal expansion in the directions of said two crystal axes are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Kenji Kanai, Norimoto Nouchi, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4392166
    Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect type head or an MR head which includes a main portion further having a casing with a recess at its one surface, for providing a bonding surface in the casing so as to be generally U-shape in its cross section, and a magnetoresistance effect type head chip, a support member for a magnetic tape sliding surface and a terminal member for external connection which are all collectively bonded to the bonding surface, and a cover plate further bonded onto the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinzaburo Ishikawa, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Tetuo Adachi
  • Patent number: 4362767
    Abstract: A magnetic thin film is composed of an oxide of Fe.sub.x Co.sub.y Cu.sub.z having spinel structure wherein x, y and z represent respective atomic ratios, x+y+z=1, 0.50.ltoreq.x<0.95, 0.05<y.ltoreq.0.30 and 0.ltoreq.z<0.20. Such film exhibits high coercive force and good squareness.The film is made by vapor depositing a material containing at least one of Fe.sub.x Co.sub.y Cu.sub.z alloys and oxides thereof onto a substrate held at a temperature between 200.degree. and 500.degree. C. under an oxygen atmosphere with the pressure of above 10.sup.-4 Torr but below 10.sup.-3 Torr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimoto Nouchi, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Noboru Nomura
  • Patent number: 4354212
    Abstract: A magnetic head and a production method therefore in which permanent magnet films for applying a DC bias magnetic field Hd h to a magnetoresistive effect element film (MR element film) is arranged on both sides of the thickness dimension of the MR element film through at least a non-magnetic film therebetween. In making the MR element film thicker in order to reduce distortion, the DC bias magnetic field Hd b to be applied to the MR element film is also required to be increased. Unlike the prior art in which the above-mentioned requirement is met by increasing the thickness of the permanent magnet film under the thickness of the MR element film resulting in the problem of breakage of a film member above or under the thickness of the permanent magnet film, the invention further comprises a second permanent magnet film above the thickness of the MR element film without increasing the thickness of the first permanent magnet film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimoto Nouchi, Kenji Kanai, Nobuyuki Kaminaka, Noboru Nomura