Patent ID: 6097571
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A magnetic head, particularly a write head, provided with a head face having a longitudinal direction along which a magnetic recording medium can be relatively moved with respect to the magnetic head, and a width direction oriented transversely to the longitudinal direction, and further provided with transducing gaps terminating in the head face, characterized by the presence of a structure having integrated, adjacent write units extending substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction and the width direction and each of said write units being provided with at least one write gap, said at least one write gap of one of said write units and said at least one write gap of another of said write units of two adjacent write units being situated in mutually different planes which are oriented substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction, and adjacent to the same plane oriented substantially transversely to the width direction, andwherein of said two adjacent write units, one write unit is provided with two write gaps, one of said two write gaps being situated in the same plane as the write gap of the other write unit, while the coplanar write gaps extend between two magnetically conducting common poles terminating in the head face, and the other of said two write gaps extends between one of the common poles and a magnetically conducting individual pole.