Patent ID: 7221539

Claim:
A shielded PMR head comprising: a PMR head having a magnetic pole; a main write shield formed symmetrically above said magnetic pole, said main write shield having a leading edge and said pole having a trailing edge with a trailing edge width, W MPTE , in an ABS plane; a stitched write shield formed symmetrically on a leading edge of said main write shield and symmetrically above said magnetic pole, a trailing edge of said stitched write shield contacting said leading edge of said main write shield and said stitched write shield having a thickness, T SWS , and said stitched write shield having a leading edge with a leading edge width, W SWSLE , in said ABS plane and wherein the cross-sectional shapes of said stitched write shield and said magnetic pole in said ABS plane are truncated wedges with W SWSLE greater than W MPTE ; a write gap layer formed between said leading edge of said stitched write shield and said trailing edge of said magnetic pole.