1. Field of the Invention
The present Invention relates to a magnetic head for perpendicular recording and a magnetic disk storage apparatus provided with the head mounted thereon.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, the magnetic disk storage apparatus is composed so that data may be read or written on a recording medium by using a magnetic head. In order to increase a recording density per a unit area of a magnetic disk, it is necessary to decrease a size of recording bit. In the longitudinal magnetic recording system, however, a smaller recording bit disadvantageously causes a recording written magnetization on a medium to be lost by thermal fluctuation. This disadvantage brings about difficulty in enhancing the recording density. As the effective technique in overcoming this difficulty, the perpendicular recording system may be referred which is composed to record (or write) the magnetization in the perpendicular direction to the medium.
The perpendicular recording system may be roughly divided into one system composed to have a double layered perpendicular medium consisting of a recording layer served as a recording medium and a soft under layer and the other system composed to have a single layered perpendicular medium having no under layer. The system composed to use the double layered perpendicular medium as a recording medium needs the so-called single pole type head provided with a main pole and an auxiliary pole for writing data.
The provision of the soft under layer leads to increasing a writing magnetic field strength obtained by the write head but also leads disadvantageously to giving rise to a failure caused by the under layer itself. For example, magnetization on the under layer is changed according to the recorded bits on the recording layer and the write head field. This change brings about a magnetic field, which may disturb the writing bits written on the recording layer or be observed as noise when reading the magnetizing signal with a read element. Moreover, a certain kind of distribution of the change of magnetization may bring about a large magnetic field from the under layer.
A magnetic head having a plurality of auxiliary poles and coils has been known, an exemplary one of which is described in the following patent publication 1 and non-patent publication 1. The techniques disclosed in these publications are prepared for a stray field and do not make any allowance for the ratio of the magneto-motive force of a coil. Further, if the head is structured to have only one auxiliary pole, the coils are located symmetrically. This structure disables to suppress the noise caused by the change of magnetization of the under layer.
Patent Publication 1 . . . Official Gazette of Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 2001-250204 Non-patent Publication 1 . . . Pages 163 to 168 of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. Vol. 38, No. 1, 2002
The magnetic field caused by the change of magnetization of the under layer, which may disadvantageously disturb the magnetization signal written on a recording layer or be observed as noise when reading the magnetization signal with the read element, leads to a great obstacle in realizing high-density recording.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide to reduce the noise caused by the change of magnetization of the under layer without decreasing the writing magnetic field strength of a write head.
The inventors of the present invention found out the following fact. As a result of analyzing the magnetic fluxes of the single pole type head and the under layer, it is possible to diminish the magnetic flux flowing through the under layer without greatly lowering the writing magnetic field strength as well as to suppress the disturbance of the recorded bits and the reading noise, both of which are brought about by the under layer, if the coils are located on both sides of the mail pole asymmetrically, concretely, the product of a number of windings and a current applied to the coil located on one side of the main pole is different from that of the coil located on the other side thereof.
According to an aspect of the invention, the magnetic head includes a write head having a main pole and one or more auxiliary poles and a read head having a read element and looped thin-film conductor coils located on both sides of the main pole in a manner to sandwich the main pole, the magneto-motive force (product of the number of windings and an applied current) of one coil being different from that of the other coil.
The use of the single pole type head having the coils structured to cause the magneto-motive forces asymmetrically makes it possible to provide the magnetic head for perpendicular recording that brings about no disturbance of the recorded bits and no reading noise resulting from the under layer. The mount of this type of single pole type head may provide a magnetic disk storage apparatus having a more improved recording density than the conventional apparatus.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of the embodiments of the invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Hereafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the appended drawings.
At first, for better understanding of the invention, the schematic composition of a magnetic disk storage apparatus will be described.
As is obvious from
In the magnetic flux density distribution shown in
In
Further, this embodiment is composed so that the coils 2a and 2b have respective number of windings, that is, are located asymmetrically on both sides of the main pole. In place, it may be composed so that the current values to be applied to the coils 2a and 2b may be changed as keeping the number of windings of each coil constant. This composition makes it possible to obtain the coil structure in which the coils generate their respective asymmetric magneto-motive forces. Moreover, by making the current values to be applied to the coils 2a and 2b and the numbers of windings of the coils different from each other, the coils may generate the asymmetric magneto-motive forces.
The auxiliary pole 3 may be located on the trailing side of the main pole 1 or the leading side thereof. The auxiliary pole may be provided on one side or both sides of the main pole so that both sides of the main pole may have respective densities of the magnetic fluxes flown from the main pole to the auxiliary pole.
Further, the coils may be located on both sides of the main pole in the track width direction.
In
Hence, as shown schematically in
In this embodiment, no auxiliary pole 3 is provided between the read element 7 and the main pole 1, so that the distance D3 between the read element 7 and the opposed side of the main pole 1 to the read element 7 may be made narrower by the film thickness. Moreover, since the magnetic flux being flown from the main pole 1 to the upper shield 9 is suppressed, it is preferable to make the distance D2 between the upper shield 9 and the main pole 1 (in particular, the distance between the opposed side of the upper shield 9 to the main pole and the opposed side of the main pole 1 to the upper shield) greater than the distance D1 between the opposed side of the main pole to the auxiliary pole and the opposed side of the auxiliary pole to the main pole.
Further, in order to suppress the magnetic flux being flown into the upper shield 9, in this embodiment, it is preferable to make a product (μa/D1) of an inverse of the distance D1 and a permeability μa of the auxiliary pole 3 greater than a product (μs/D2) of an inverse of the distance D2 and a permeability μs of the upper shield, the distance D1 meaning a spacing between the main pole and the auxiliary pole, concretely, the opposed side of the main pole 1 to the auxiliary pole and the opposed side of the auxiliary pole to the main pole and the distance D2 meaning a spacing between the main pole and the upper shield, concretely, between the opposed side of the upper shield film 9 to the main pole and the opposed side of the main pole 1 to the upper shield film.
In addition, in this embodiment, the trailing side may be reversed in position to the leading side.
In this embodiment, the magneto-motive force of the coil 2c located on the leading side is greater than, that is, asymmetrical to that of the coil 2d located on the trailing side. Hence, the film thickness t2 of the auxiliary pole 3a located on the leading side is made thinner than the film thickness t1 of the auxiliary pole 3b located on the trailing side. This allows the distance between the read element 7 and the main pole 1 (concretely, between the read element 7 and the opposed side of the main pole 1 to the read element) to be narrowed accordingly. The resulting composition offers the read and write composite magnetic head that is suitable to the high-density recording.
In addition, in this embodiment, the trailing side may be reversed in position to the leading side.
This embodiment concerns a magnetic disk storage apparatus which is suitable for high-density recording. The magnetic disk storage apparatus includes a magnetic head of the invention, the magnetic head having a main pole, at least one auxiliary pole, and coils each composed of a thin-film conductor coil that are located in a manner to sandwich the main pole and to make the magneto-motive force of the coil located on one side different from that of the coil located on the other side; a magnetic disk medium composed of a soft under layer and a recording layer laminated thereon; a magnetic circuit arranged to be opposed to the magnetic disk medium rotating on the magnetic head and cause the magnetic field coming from the main pole to enter into the auxiliary pole through the recording layer and the under layer, the magnetic field coming from the main pole being applied into the recording layer by passing current through the coils for writing a magnetizing signal.
As set forth above, the magnetic head for perpendicular recording uses the structure of the coils asymmetrically located on both sides of the main pole, which includes the write head having the main pole and one or more auxiliary poles, the read head provided with the read element, and coils each composed of a thin-film conductor being located on both side of the main pole, the magneto-motive force of the coil located on one side being different from that of the coil located on the other side. This coil structure makes it possible to reduce the magnetic flux density flowing through the under layer and thereby to diminish the noise generated by the under layer without deteriorating the writing magnetic field strength generated by the main pole.
It should be further understood by those skilled in the art that although the foregoing description has been made on embodiments of the invention, the invention is not limited thereto and various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.
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This is a continuation application of U.S. Ser. No. 10/766,862, filed Jan. 30, 2004, which is a continuation of 10/366,360, filed Feb. 14, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,710,972.
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