Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Head – Magnetoresistive reproducing head
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-15
2008-04-15
Miller, Brian E. (Department: 2627)
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Head
Magnetoresistive reproducing head
C360S324120, C324S207210, C338S03200R
Reexamination Certificate
active
07359162
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a practical magnetoresistance effect element which has an appropriate value of resistance, which can be sensitized and which has a small number of magnetic layers to be controlled, and a magnetic head and magnetic recording and/or reproducing system using the same. In a magnetoresistance effect element wherein a sense current is caused to flow in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the film, if a pinned layer and a free layer have a stacked construction of a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer or a stacked construction of a magnetic layer and a magnetic layer, it is possible to provide a practical magnetoresistance effect element which has an appropriate value of resistance, which can be sensitized and which has a small number of magnetic layers, while effectively utilizing the scattering effect depending on spin.
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Kamiguchi Yuuzo
Nagata Tomohiko
Yoda Hiroaki
Yuasa Hiromi
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Miller Brian E.
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
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