Abstract: A magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head incorporates a grounded conductive layer, a second thin film magnetic core and an MR sensing part, the conductive layer being located near the thin film magnetic core, the layer and the core being electrically connected. The conductive layer is further connected electrically to an electrode of the MR sensing part, the electrode facing an air bearing surface. This setup protects the MR sensing part from static electricity destruction, thus providing a magneto-resistance effect type magnetic head of high reliability.

Abstract: A magneto-resistance effect type thin film magnetic head which does not produce significant Barkhausen noises and has stabilized characteristics even where the track width is smaller than, for example, 10 .mu.m. The magnetic head comprises a base member, a lower layer thin film magnetic core and an upper layer thin film magnetic core layered on the base member in such a manner that a magnetic gap is formed between front ends thereof, the gap being open to an opposing face of the magnetic head which is in contact with or opposed to a magnetic record medium, and a magneto-resistance effect magnetic sensing section disposed in the magnetic gap between the lower and upper layer thin film magnetic cores. The front end of the lower layer thin film magnetic core which defines the magnetic gap has a width selected to be smaller than the width of the front end of the upper layer thin film magnetic core which defines the magnetic gap so as to define a track width of the magnetic gap.

Abstract: A MR magnetic head with a sensing element which comprises a plurality of superposed magnetic layers which have a magnetoresistance effect in at least one and a nonmagnetic intermediate layer sandwiched between the magnetic layers, and a sensing current is fed so as to flow in the sensing element in the same direction as a signal magnetic field which is applied to the element. Each of the magnetic layers is formed so as to have an easy axis of magnetization which is substantially perpendicular to the signal magnetic field or to have an isotropic magnetic characteristic in the magnetic film plane, which eliminates Barkhausen noise.