Patent ID: 11875828
Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A reader of a magnetic recording head, the reader comprising:
a sensor stack;
a first side shield and a second side shield disposed on opposite sides of the sensor stack in a cross-track dimension of the reader; and
a bridge comprising a soft magnetic material having a magnetic permeability that is sufficiently high to enable magnetic moments of the first side shield and the second side shield to produce a magnetic flux density in the bridge that is greater than or equal to about 0.5 Tesla, the bridge configured to align magnetic moments of the first side shield and the second side shield,
wherein the bridge is disposed above the sensor stack relative to a media-facing surface of the reader and proximate to the first side shield and the second side shield.