Appeal No. 96-0775
Application 07/990,769
The disclosed invention is described as a magnetoresistive
read head 1 and an inductive write head 5 superimposed on each
other to form an inductive-write, magnetoresistive-read type
magnetic head. According to appellants, the coincidence between
a magnetic center (A or B) of the read head 1 and a physical
track width center F of the write head 5 is improved by selecting
a magnetization direction of magnetoresistive element 4 so that
an alignment offset amount b defined between the physical center
F of the write head 5 and a physical center C of the read head 1
can be either smaller than or larger than an offset amount a
defined between the magnetic center (A or B) of the read head 1
and the physical center C of the read head 1. As a result of the
selection of the magnetization direction, the physical center of
the write head is positioned between the magnetic center of the
read head and the physical center of the read head (claims 2 and
9), or the magnetic center of the read head is positioned between
the physical center of the write head and the physical center of
the read head (claims 3 and 10).
Claims 2 and 10 are illustrative of the claimed invention,
and they read as follows:
2. An inductive-write, magnetoresistive-read type magnetic
head including a magnetoresistive read head and an inductive
write head superimposed on each other, wherein a position of a
magnetic center of said read head is set prior to write
2
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