Patent ID: 8593762

Claim:
A magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording, comprising: a medium facing surface facing a recording medium; a coil producing a magnetic field corresponding to data to be written on the recording medium; a main pole having an end face located in the medium facing surface, the main pole allowing a magnetic flux that corresponds to the magnetic field produced by the coil to pass, and producing a write magnetic field for writing the data on the recording medium; a write shield made of a magnetic material and having an end face located in the medium facing surface; a gap part made of a nonmagnetic material and interposed between the main pole and the write shield; a first yoke layer made of a magnetic material, magnetically connected to the write shield and located on a front side in a direction of travel of the recording medium relative to the main pole; a second yoke layer made of a magnetic material, magnetically connected to the write shield and located on a rear side in the direction of travel of the recording medium relative to the main pole; a first coupling part located away from the medium facing surface and magnetically coupling the main pole and the first yoke layer to each other; a second coupling part located away from the medium facing surface and magnetically coupling the first yoke layer and the second yoke layer to each other without touching the main pole, wherein the end face of the write shield includes a first end face portion located on the front side in the direction of travel of the recording medium relative to the end face of the main pole, the first coupling part includes one or more first magnetic path portions that allow a first magnetic flux passing through the first coupling part to pass therethrough, the second coupling part includes one or more second magnetic path portions that allow a second magnetic flux passing through the second coupling part to pass therethrough, one or both of the first and second magnetic path portions are two or more in number so as to separate one or both of the first and second magnetic fluxes into two or more magnetic fluxes traveling in parallel to each other, the one or more first magnetic path portions and the one or more second magnetic path portions are disposed to intersect a cross section perpendicular to the direction of travel of the recording medium, the coil includes one first winding portion extending to pass around the first and second magnetic path portions alternately in a zigzag manner, and one or more magnetic fields produced in the one or more first magnetic path portions by the first winding portion and one or more magnetic fields produced in the one or more second magnetic path portions by the first winding portion are in directions opposite to each other.