Patent ID: 7092212

Claim:
A method for fabricating a thin film magnetic head, comprising the steps of: fabricating a thin film magnetic head assembly on a given substrate, fabricating, on said substrate, an electrical circuit including a circuit leading wire so as to monitor the processing degree of said thin film magnetic head assembly, forming a protective layer so as to cover said thin film magnetic head assembly and said electrical circuit, fabricating, on said substrate, a bump so as to penetrate said protective layer and thus, to be exposed, fabricating, directly on said substrate, an element leading wire to be electrically connected to said thin film magnetic head assembly, and electrically connecting said element leading wire and said circuit leading wire, whereby said bump is shared with said thin film magnetic head assembly and said electrical circuit, and the processing degree of said thin film magnetic head assembly is indirectly monitored by an external monitoring system on the monitoring information from said electrical circuit to said external monitoring system via said bump.