Appeal No. 96-0775
Application 07/990,769
operations to improve coincidence between a magnetic center of
said read head and a physical center of said write head by
selecting a magnetization direction of a magnetoresistive element
such that an alignment offset amount defined between a physical
track width center of said write head and that of said read head
is smaller than an offset amount defined between the magnetic
center of said read head and a physical track width center of
said read head, and such that said read head and said write head
are positioned so that the physical track width center of said
write head is positioned between the magnetic center of said read
head and the physical track width center of said read head.
10. 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
operations using a transverse bias field applied to a
magnetoresistive element to change a magnetization direction of
said magnetoresistive element to improve coincidence between a
magnetic center of said read head and a physical center of said
write head such that an alignment offset amount defined between a
physical track width center of said write head and that of said
read head is larger than an offset amount defined between the
magnetic center of said read head and a physical track width
center of said read head, and such that said read head and said
write head are positioned so that the magnetic center of said
read head is positioned between the physical track width center
of said write head and the physical track width center of said
read head.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Mowry 4,967,298 Oct. 30, 1990
Tanabe et al. (Tanabe) 5,218,497 June 8, 1993
(filed Nov. 30, 1989)
Claims 2, 3, 9 and 10 stand rejected under the first
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as failing to provide an enabling
disclosure.
Claims 2, 3, 9 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
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