Abstract: A magnetoresistive head includes a magnetoresistive film and a magnetic domain control layer, formed by a paramagnetic film which is provided in contact with the magnetoresistive film and an antiferromagnetic film which is provided in contact with the paramagnetic film, provided in contact with the magnetoresistive film.

Abstract: A tunnel transistor including source and drain and a silicon oxide tunneling layer overlying the source. A polysilicon quantum well layer positioned on the tunneling layer and in contact with the drain. The quantum well layer having a thickness which places the ground state above the Fermi level. A silicon oxide insulating layer positioned on the quantum well layer and a gate electrode positioned on the insulating layer overlying the quantum well layer and the source terminal. The tunneling layer being thin enough to allow tunneling between the source and the quantum well layer, and the insulating layer being thick enough to prevent tunneling therethrough.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning device for a magnetic-tape apparatus, with a head disc which is rotatably mounted between an upper and a lower drum of a scanner and with head supports carrying magnetic heads, which supports are mounted at the periphery of the head disc. According to the invention, in order to simplify mounting and adjustment of the head supports, the head supports are constructed so as to allow them to be mounted on the head disc and adjusted from outside in a radial direction (R).

Abstract: A vertical recording head structure combines a tri-pad shaped slider body with a uniquely shaped thin-film recording element disposed along a trailing edge of the slider body. The recording element, or transducer, includes a narrow probe tip for writing data to a rotating magnetic disk. The recording element also includes a wide permalloy area to distribute the magnetic field returning from the disk. The wide area spreads the magnetic field lines such that the returning flux is kept from unintentional writing or reading information. The size and orientation of the air-bearing surfaces on the tri-pad slider body causes the slider to assume a flying attitude wherein the leading edge is lifted above the rotating magnetic disk, and the trailing edge is in substantial contact with the disk, during data transfer operations.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cartridge includes a casing having a tape chamber defined therein for accommodating a reeled magnetic recording tape and, also, box arms protruding outwardly from a front wall section of the casing so as to leave a loading bay that opens upwardly, frontwardly and downwardly and is thus delimited by upwardly, frontwardly and downwardly oriented open areas. The casing includes a lid assembly for selectively concealing and exposing that portion of magnetic recording tape and including front, top and rear lids operatively linked together. The front and top lids are adapted to selectively open and close the frontwardly and upwardly oriented open areas of the loading bay, respectively, while the rear lid is positioned within the loading bay and adapted to selectively open and close a space delimited between the front and the rear lid.

Abstract: An optical disk library apparatus equipped with a function of automatically cleaning an optical head in a drive unit. This optical disk library apparatus comprises a cartridge entry/eject mechanism for entering an optical disk cartridge into the library apparatus and ejecting the optical disk cartridge from the library apparatus. Also included is a cell unit having a plurality of cells each for holding the optical disk cartridge therein, a drive unit having an optical head to record data on and/or to reproduce the same from the optical disk cartridge, and outputting a head cleaning request signal on the basis of information relative to soil of the optical head, and an accessor for carrying the optical disk cartridge among the cartridge entry/eject mechanism, the cell unit and the drive unit.

Abstract: A head feeding mechanism of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a 0-side carriage which carries a 0-side magnetic head provided on a surface area close to the tip end of the 0-side carriage and is fed in a lengthwise direction of a slot of a magnetic disk holder for holding a magnetic disk by means of a guide device provided in a unit frame. The head feeding mechanism includes a thin portion formed at the end of the 0-side carriage, an opening formed at the center of the thin portion into which connection pins of the 0-side magnetic head can be inserted, a head seat surface which is matched in shape with the 0-side magnetic head and is formed on the front side of the thin portion, and a housing groove formed on the rear side of the thin portion for housing a connection end of a flexible printed board.

Abstract: A disk drive suspension assembly in which the spacing of the slider in operative proximity to the disk is determined by the additive height of separate opposed dimples on the flexure and load beam, respectively, engaged in a common locus of engagement, the flexure having in addition a local deflection to offset the outer flexure portion carrying the dimple from the inner flexure portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of SOI structure formed by the mesa isolation method, which can sufficiently reduce the wiring capacitance even if the width of the isolation trench is large. An SOI layer which constitutes an element region is formed by forming a buried oxide film in a silicon substrate, forming an isolation trench in the buried oxide film and burying an isolating material in the isolation trench. By the formation of the SOI layer with the isolating material, a dummy SOI layer is formed in a field part other than the element region. Then, by the formation of a MOSFET gate wiring on the dummy SOI layer, the wiring capacitance is reduced. Furthermore, the dummy SOI layer is completely depleted when the MOSFET threshold value is applied to the gate wiring.

Abstract: A novel head slider assembly for a hard disk drive includes a transducer and an air bearing slider supporting the transducer; a head suspension mechanism for supporting the air beating slider with the transducer closely adjacent to the recording surface of a recording medium in an orientation having a predetermined pitch angle and a predetermined spacing with respect the recording surface of the recording medium, and for moving the air bearing slider relative to the recording surface of the recording medium; and the air bearing slider having leading and trailing edges, an upper surface and a lower surface extending from the leading edge to the trailing end of the air bearing slider, a first tapered portion at the leading edge in the lower surface and a second tapered potion at the leading edge in the upper surface for enabling the air beating slider to stably maintain in a low flying height with respect to the recording surface of the recording medium.

Abstract: A magnetic tape drive for reading/writing data on magnetic tape in a cartridge of the type in which a driven roller in the cartridge moves tape past a read/write head in the drive, has a door opening lever disposed parallel to the direction of insertion of the cartridge. The lever is mounted on a pivot at one end on an axis perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the cartridge. The other end of the lever bears against the actuating portion of the door to open the door as the cartridge enters the drive. The lever is moveable about its pivot only to the side of the cartridge to accommodate an insertion of the cartridge into the drive.

Abstract: In a transportation or in an accident, the carriage of a floppy disc apparatus has a chance to collide with the stopper mechanism of the apparatus. A shock absorbing mechanism is provided in the stopper mechanism to avoid damage from the shock.

Abstract: A flash EEPROM having reduced column leakage current suitably includes cells with more uniform erase times arranged in an array. An intermediate n+ implant immediately following the DDI implant step suitably provides an enhanced doping profile in the tunneling region, which increases the rate at which F-N tunneling occurs to erase the cells, and which increases the uniformity of F-N tunneling rates among memory cells within the array. A thermal cycle drives the intermediate n+ implant deeper into the tunneling region. Alternatively, an n+ implant may be performed at a relatively large angle with respect to the semiconductor substrate, which improves the doping concentration in the tunneling region of the source.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic write head is provided with a notch structure located on top of one of two pole layers. The notch structure is a generally U-shaped thin film layer which forms a trench inside the U for the containment of one or more pole tip layers in the pole tip region of the head. The notch structure has front surfaces at the tips of the legs of the U which lie in a plane that forms a part of the air bearing surface. The thickness of the notch layer is substantially equal to the thickness or thicknesses of the one or more pole tip layers located in the trench. A method of manufacturing the write head includes forming a very thin photoresist layer for defining the notch structure. The notch structure is well-defined which in turn allows the one or more pole tip layers to be well-defined with a very narrow trackwidth in the trench.

Abstract: A microelectronic integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of CMOS microelectronic devices formed on the substrate. Each device includes a triangular ANY element of a first conductivity type (PMOS or NMOS), and a triangular ALL element of a second conductivity type (NMOS or PMOS), the ANY and ALL elements each having a plurality of inputs and an output that are electrically interconnected respectively. The ANY element is basically an OR element, and the ALL element is basically an AND element. However, the power supply connections and the selection of conductivity type (NMOS or PMOS) for the ANY and ALL elements can be varied to provide the device as having a desired NAND, AND, NOR or OR configuration, in which the ANY element acts as a pull-up and the ALL element acts as a pull-down, or vice-versa.

Abstract: A voice coil rotor is formed with a metal hub alignment insert for interiorly receiving an assembly of bearings and for exteriorly receiving and retaining at least two head arms against radial walls of an integral annular spacer ring portion. An overmolded plastic hub encapsulates at least one leg of a generally trapezoidal voice coil as well as the exterior of the metal hub alignment insert and adjacent portions of the head arms attached thereto.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive transducer is formed with a trilayer structure including a soft adjacent magnetic layer (SAL), a spacer layer and a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element. The SAL and part of the spacer layer extend continuously across the transducer structure. The MR sensor element has end portions that partially abut hard permanent magnetic (PM) films and partially abut conductive leads formed over the PM films. The transducer structure minimizes the problem of electrical shorting and achieves significant improvements in magnetic performance of the active MR region and signal readout.

Abstract: A metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor with a lightly doped silicon substrate includes an oppositely doped well and oppositely doped source region and oppositely doped drain region with respect to the lightly doped substrate, the improvement comprising at least one counter doped region formed along the surface of the oppositely doped well between the source and drain regions. The substrate comprises a P-substrate, the well comprises an N- well and the counter doped region is doped P; the counterdoped region comprises an island among a plurality of islands between the source region and the drain region. The counterdoped region comprises an island among a plurality of islands between the source region and the drain region.

Abstract: A static random access memory (SRAM) device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the SRAM memory device, a first active region of annular shape and a second active region bisecting the annulus are repeatedly formed over the whole cell array. Thus, since the contact hole for connecting the power line to the active region can be formed larger without increasing the cell size, contact resistance can be decreased. Also, the manufacturing method can be simplified since just one gate oxide layer formation process is needed.

Abstract: In a magnetic read/write assembly, a removable fusible-link shorts the magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element to minimize electrical current through the MR sensing element during discharge of static electricity. Other magnetic head assembly elements such as the write coil and MR magnetic shields are also shorted using fusible-links. The fusible-link is removable during the assembly process. The existing terminal pads and wires are used to remove the fusible-link.