Patent ID: 8072707

Claim:
A perpendicular magnetic recording head comprising a main magnetic pole layer for applying a recording magnetic field perpendicularly to a recording medium, a return yoke layer laminated with the main magnetic pole layer with a predetermined distance therebetween on a medium-opposing surface and magnetically coupled to the main magnetic pole layer on the rear side of the medium-opposing surface in a height direction, a coil layer provided between the main magnetic pole layer and the return yoke layer, and an auxiliary yoke layer for guiding a recording magnetic flux generated from the coil layer to the main magnetic pole layer; wherein a plurality of rear magnetic connecting layers having respective positions in the height direction different from each other and intermittently extending to a first connecting position with the return yoke layer are provided on the rear side of the main magnetic pole layer in the height direction at the same lamination position as with the main magnetic pole layer; wherein the auxiliary yoke layer is formed by a plurality of divided auxiliary yoke layers laminated on the main magnetic pole layer, the divided auxiliary yoke layers intermittently extending from a rear end of the main magnetic pole layer in the height direction to a second connecting position with the return yoke layer and magnetically coupling the main magnetic pole layer to the plurality of rear magnetic connecting layers, respectively; and wherein each of the main magnetic pole layer, the plurality of rear magnetic connecting layers, and the plurality of divided auxiliary yoke layers has a size in a track width direction greater than a size in the height direction.