THIN-FILM TRANSDUCERS WITH TUNNEL ERASE AND SHARED CONNECTOR TERMINALS

摘要

A plurality of thin film transducers are batch fabricated in two rows with a continuous pole which is common to both rows of transducers extending through all of the transducers. One row of transducers includes individual read/write poles which are mounted on one side of the common pole. The second row of transducers has a plurality of tunnel erase poles mounted on the other side of the common pole. Each adjacent pair of read/write transducers has a single common connection terminal or "shared terminal" mounted between them. The tunnel erase poles eliminate any signals which may be recorded in the space between the read/write transducers.