Patent ID: 7468862

Claim:
A magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording comprising: a medium facing surface that faces toward a recording medium; a first coil and a second coil for generating a magnetic field corresponding to data to be written on the recording medium; a pole layer having an end face located in the medium facing surface, allowing a magnetic flux corresponding to the field generated by the first and second coils to pass therethrough, and generating a write magnetic field for writing the data on the recording medium by means of a perpendicular magnetic recording system; a shield layer having an end face located in the medium facing surface and including a portion located away from the medium facing surface and coupled to the pole layer; and a gap layer made of a nonmagnetic material and provided between the pole layer and the shield layer, wherein: in the medium facing surface, the end face of the shield layer is located forward of the end face of the pole layer along a direction of travel of the recording medium with a specific space created by a thickness of the gap layer; and the first and second coils are located in regions sandwiching the pole layer and are electrically connected to each other in parallel, and at least part of the second coil is located between the pole layer and the shield layer and insulated from the pole layer and the shield layer.