Flux extender or guide for magnetic read head having a magnetore

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1979-11-28

1981-09-22

Tupper, Robert S.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Head

Hall effect

G11B 530

Patent

active

042913519

ABSTRACT:
A flux extender or guide for a magnetic read head having a magnetoresistive read element. The element is mounted on a substrate, contained, for example, in a hand-held wand structure. The element is spaced from the contact portion of the wand, to permit a small amount of wear of the head to take place, before the read element comes into contact with the record media. In order to increase the spacing between the magnetoresistive element and the contact portion of the wand, the flux guide or extender is utilized. The flux guide or extender is a wedge-shaped piece of magnetizable material.
At the end of the flux guide closest to the read element, the guide is approximately as wide as the element and tapers down to approximately three quarters of its top width at the lower end of the guide. The guide is of uniform thickness and thicker than the read element. The cross-sectional area is selected to be from two to three times the cross-sectional area of the read element. The flux guide is preferably fabricated from a magnetic material which is non-corrosive or less corrosive than the read element and having a higher value of flux density than the element. The width of the guide at the lower end is less than the width of the element, which permits higher density of magnetized bits per inch to be decoded. Also, the length of the guide is less than the minimum distance between flux transitions for good resolution.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3274575 (1966-09-01), DeKoster
patent: 3671681 (1972-06-01), Stauffer
patent: 3921217 (1975-11-01), Thompson
Pennella et al., "Flux Extender. . .", IBM Tech. Disc. Bull., vol. 21, No. 7, Dec. 1978, p. 2716.

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