Patent ID: 6567243
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:a rotary drum provided with at least one recording and reproducing head having m head elements (where m is an integer 2 or greater) for recording and/or reproducing a magnetic signal on a magnetic recording medium; and a feed mechanism for wrapping a magnetic recording medium halfway around said rotary drum and feeding this magnetic recording medium at a specified feed speed, wherein said head elements are thin-film magnetic heads manufactured by thin-film formation technology, and the following relationships are satisfied for a track width W for each of said head elements, a track pitch Tp between said head elements being 5 &mgr;m or more, and a feed amount S for a magnetic recording medium fed by said feed mechanism until said recording and reproducing head scans the magnetic recording medium: mW/2<Tp<2mW nTpâˆ’W(where n is a positive non-zero integer).