Abstract: Embodiments of the invention avoid loss of information as recorded, due to an external magnetic field applied. In one embodiment, a pole expanded part prone to occurrence of magnetic saturation is formed so as to prevent magnetic fluxes from being converged at ends of a return pole of a magnetic head.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve efficiency in alternating-current demagnetization of a magnetic recording medium. In specific embodiments, magnet fields in a direction slanting to an easy direction of magnetization of recording layer magnetization of a medium in rotation are applied.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention improve efficiency in alternating-current demagnetization of a magnetic recording medium. In specific embodiments, magnet fields in a direction slanting to an easy direction of magnetization of recording layer magnetization of a medium in rotation are applied.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention avoid loss of information as recorded, due to an external magnetic field applied. In one embodiment, a pole expanded part prone to occurrence of magnetic saturation is formed so as to prevent magnetic fluxes from being converged at ends of a return pole of a magnetic head.

Abstract: A magnetic head increases the magnetic field strength just below a write gap 14 and thereby improves the recording resolution of a medium. To do so, an upper magnetic pole 10 and a lower magnetic pole 12 are disposed facing one another with the write gap 14 in between, with an end surface of the lower magnetic pole 12 being I-shaped and an end surface of the upper magnetic pole being T-shaped due to the upper magnetic pole 10 being formed of a first upper magnetic pole 10a that is disposed facing the lower magnetic pole 12 and is formed in an I shape that is shorter than the lower magnetic pole 12 and a second upper magnetic pole 10b that is joined to the first upper magnetic pole 10a and is formed wider than the first upper magnetic pole 10a.

Abstract: A liquid resist is introduced between adjacent conductive lines of a coil pattern girdling around a magnetic core piece. When the liquid resist is cured, an insulating resin filler can be fixed between the adjacent conductive lines of the coil pattern. An insulating metallic layer is formed to extend over the insulting resin filler and the conductive lines of the coil pattern. Thereafter, the insulating metallic layer is subjected to a flattening grinding treatment until at least a part of the conductive line is exposed at a flattened surface. Of the resist, of a higher fluidity, penetrates in every hole and corner between the adjacent conductive lines, the gap defined between the adjacent conductive lines is fully filled with the insulating material. No voids remain in the gap. The conductive line of the coil can be reliably prevented from corrosion or oxidation. Moreover, a relatively brittle of fragile insulating resin filler is reliably prevented from being subjected to the flattening.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head includes an upper and a lower magnetic pole layer extending forward from a central magnetic core within a thin film coil. A narrow upper and lower front magnetic pole piece are connected to the front ends of the upper and lower magnetic pole layer, respectively. The upper front magnetic pole piece extends rearward from its front end exposed at a medium-opposed surface. The lower front magnetic pole piece extends in a lateral direction along the medium-opposed surface by a lateral width larger than that of the upper front magnetic pole piece. The lower front magnetic pole piece extends rearward from the medium-opposed surface by a longitudinal length smaller than that of the upper front magnetic pole piece. The lower front magnetic pole piece serves to concentrate the magnetic flux at the front ends of the upper and lower front magnetic pole pieces.

Abstract: A magnetic head has a lower sub-magnetic pole and an upper sub-magnetic pole disposed to be adjacent to a moving magnetic disk. The lower sub-magnetic pole and the upper sub-magnetic pole are placed adjacent one another with a predetermined interval at an adjacent point to the magnetic disk. A magnetic field is generated between those magnetic poles so that the magnetic disk is magnetized. A soft magnetic film extending between the magnetic poles and a first non-magnetic film and a second non-magnetic film supporting the soft magnetic film are disposed between the magnetic poles.

Abstract: A liquid resist is introduced between adjacent conductive lines of a coil pattern girdling around a magnetic core piece. When the liquid resist is cured, an insulating resin filler can be fixed between the adjacent conductive lines of the coil pattern. An insulating metallic layer is formed to extend over the insulting resin filler and the conductive lines of the coil pattern. Thereafter, the insulating metallic layer is subjected to a flattening grinding treatment until at least a part of the conductive line is exposed at a flattened surface. Since the liquid of the resist, of a higher fluidity, penetrates in every hole and corner between the adjacent conductive lines, the gap defined between the adjacent conductive lines is fully filled with the insulating material. No voids remain in the gap. The conductive line of the coil can be reliably prevented from corrosion or oxidation.

Abstract: A liquid resist is introduced between adjacent conductive lines of a coil pattern girdling around a magnetic core piece. When the liquid resist is cured, an insulating resin filler can be fixed between the adjacent conductive lines of the coil pattern. An insulating metallic layer is formed to extend over the insulting resin filler and the conductive lines of the coil pattern. Thereafter, the insulating metallic layer is subjected to a flattening grinding treatment until at least a part of the conductive line is exposed at a flattened surface. Since the liquid of the resist, of a higher fluidity, penetrates in every hole and corner between the adjacent conductive lines, the gap defined between the adjacent conductive lines is fully filled with the insulating material. No voids remain in the gap. The conductive line of the coil can be reliably prevented from corrosion or oxidation.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a central processing unit, a cache memory unit and first and second decision circuits. The first decision circuit identifies one of partitioned address areas to be accessed before the central processing unit accesses the cache memory unit. The second decision circuit determines whether the above one of the partitioned address areas is a cachable area or a non-cachable area before address tag data is referred to in the cache memory unit.

Abstract: An information recording device which records information at a high recording density such that an error rate is reduced. In particular, an information recording device that includes a recording head, arranged near or to be close to the recording medium, for applying magnetic fields to the small regions when the recording head relatively moves with respect to the recording medium to pass on the small regions of the recording medium, and a recording head controller for controlling the recording head to cause the recording head to apply magnetic fields to the small regions in a free region of the recording medium in a standby state in which at least information is not recorded on the recording medium to uniform the directions of magnetization of the small regions so as to erase the information in the predetermined free region.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head comprises a magnetic yoke piece exposed at a medium-opposed surface adjacent a gap layer. A magnetic yoke layer is connected to the magnetic yoke piece at a position retracting from the medium-opposed surface. The tip end of the magnetic yoke layer is exposed at the medium-opposed surface. A non-magnetic layer is interposed between the tip end of the magnetic yoke layer and the magnetic yoke piece at the medium-opposed surface. The non-magnetic layer serves to space the tip end of the magnetic yoke layer away from the other magnetic yoke layer which is separated by the magnetic yoke piece and a gap layer, for example, from the magnetic yoke layer. It is possible to reduce a magnetic field directed to the other magnetic yoke layer from the edges of the magnetic yoke layer protruding in the lateral direction of a data track. Such magnetic fields from the magnetic yoke layer hardly induce magnetic reversal on a magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic recording disk or tape.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head includes: a lower magnetic pole (8); an upper magnetic pole (16) disposed to face the lower magnetic pole; a recording coil disposed between the lower magnetic pole and the upper magnetic pole, the recording coil being spaced from the both magnetic poles; and an upper tip sub-magnetic pole (22) provided at the side of the lower magnetic pole of the upper magnetic pole in the vicinity of a floating surface (ABS). In the first aspect, the upper magnetic pole and the upper tip sub-magnetic pole are disposed in such a manner that an end portion at the side of the floating surface of the upper magnetic pole recedes from an end portion at the side of the floating surface of the upper tip sub-magnetic pole. In the second aspect, a portion of the upper magnetic pole in the vicinity of the floating surface is formed to be narrower than the other portion of the pole, and to be wider than a core width of the upper tip sub-magnetic pole.

Abstract: An information recording device which records information at a high recording density such that an error rate is reduced.

Abstract: A thin film magnetic head includes: a lower magnetic pole (8); an upper magnetic pole (16) disposed to face the lower magnetic pole; a recording coil disposed between the lower magnetic pole and the upper magnetic pole, the recording coil being spaced from the both magnetic poles; and an upper tip sub-magnetic pole (22) provided at the side of the lower magnetic pole of the upper magnetic pole in the vicinity of a floating surface (ABS). The upper tip sub-magnetic pole (22) is formed in such a manner that a core width (SW2) of a body portion thereof is larger than a core width (SW1) at the floating surface (ABS). When a position where the core width of the tip sub-magnetic pole (22) starts to spread is defined as a tip projection height (SH), the tip projection height is selected to be 0.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a central processing unit, a cache memory unit and first and second decision circuits. The first decision circuit identifies one of partitioned address areas to be accessed before the central processing unit accesses the cache memory unit. The second decision circuit determines whether the above one of the partitioned address areas is a cachable area or a non-cachable area before address tag data is referred to in the cache memory unit.

Abstract: An automatic contour tracking method for CAD in which a start element is indicated from continuous elements of a drawing on a display, and the tracking direction and the internal turn and the external turn are set, and the continuous elements are sequentially discriminated and selected according to the tracking direction and the internal turn and the external turn on the basis of the start element as the basic point whereby the contour data is obtained automatically, the automatic contour tracking method including finding an angle .theta. between a final selection element and a candidate element to be chosen next when the next candidate element to be chosen next appears on the final selection element, and selecting one element from among a plurality of candidate elements to be chosen by giving a priority on the element having a smaller angle .theta. in case the contour tracking is the internal turn, and giving a priority on the element having a larger angle .theta.