NG TYPE THIN FILM MAGNETIC HEAD HAVING A TRANSDUCING ELEMENT

• US 5,200,869 A
• Filed: 02/22/1991
• Issued: 04/06/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Matsuzaki, Mikio
• Primary Examiner(s): HEINZ, ALLEN J
• Application Number:
  US07/658,872
• Time in Patent Office: 774 Days
• US Class Current: 360/234.5
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/3106 where the integrated or assembled structure comprises means for conditioning against physical detrimental influence, e.g. wear, contamination G11B5/3133 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/6005 Specially adapted for spacing from a rotating disc using a fluid cushion

Abstract

A thin film magnetic head has a slider and a thin film magnetic transducing element attached to an end surface of the slider, wherein the thin film magnetic transducing element is provided with bonding pads electrically connected to a conductor coil, and the bonding pads are extended to the surface opposite the surface of the slider which faces a magnetic recording medium.

Claims

1. A thin film magnetic head comprising:

a slider having a first surface which faces a magnetic recording medium, a second surface opposite to said first surface and an end surface; and

a thin film magnetic transducing element attached to the end surface of the slider, said thin film magnetic transducing element being provided with a bonding pad electrically connected to a conductor coil, said bonding pad having a first surface which is adjacent to the end surface of the slider and a connecting surface which is co-planar with the second surface of the slider and extends from the second surface of the slider.

2. The thin film magnetic head according to claim 1, wherein at least one groove is formed in the second surface of the slider which is opposite to the first surface facing the magnetic recording medium.

3. The thin film magnetic head according to claim 1, wherein at least one groove is formed in the second surface of the slider, in the direction of air flow, which is opposite to the first surface facing the magnetic recording medium.

4. The thin film magnetic head according to claim 1, wherein said first surface of the slider which faces the magnetic recording medium is flat.