| Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963) | 
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| 10/03/2002 | US20020141106 Signal reproducing method and storage apparatus | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141104 Servo control method and servo control system for magnetic disc drive | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141103 Multi-channel magnetic tape system having optical tracking servo | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141102 Method and apparatus employed in disk drive for retracting head when power supply has been interrupted | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141101 Method and device for retracting an actuator | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141098 Time domain voice coil motor control circuit and method | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020141097 Disk apparatus and head position control method | 
| 10/03/2002 | US20020139700 Container for laser-readable discs with closure means | 
| 10/02/2002 | EP1246184A2 Carriage structure for a disk drive | 
| 10/02/2002 | EP1245026A1 Method for regulating the tracking of a scanning device and drive for the same | 
| 10/02/2002 | CN1372248A Hanging device for floppy disc driver | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459550 Active damping control for a disk drive | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459549 Hard disk drive with slider support structure and head gimbal assembly | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459548 Head suspension assembly with flexible air-floating lead | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459547 Slider with pads and textured landing zone for disc storage system | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459492 Non-contact position sensor | 
| 10/01/2002 | US6459092 6 degree-of-freedom (DOF) motion measuring apparatus | 
| 09/26/2002 | WO2002075726A2 Avoiding write to read interference during self-servowriting | 
| 09/26/2002 | WO2001001413A3 Method and apparatus for run-out correction in a disk drive | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020138808 Data card with a full circular track for alignment and amplitude calibration | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020136927 Recording medium, method of manufacturing recording medium and recording apparatus | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135942 Hard disk drive head-media system having reduced stiction and low fly height | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135941 Magnetic head slider having optimized ration of negative pressure recess to front step bearing | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135940 Write/read head supporting mechanism, and write/read system | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135930 Disk drive, servo control unit, and control unit | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135928 Disk drive unit and control method for same | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135925 Avoiding write to read interference during self-servowriting | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135924 Multi-phase acceleration of a data storage disc | 
| 09/26/2002 | US20020135922 Adaptive actuator radial positioning to extend magnetic disk drive longevity | 
| 09/25/2002 | CN1371514A Actuator shock snubber | 
| 09/25/2002 | CN1371513A Slider for disc storage system | 
| 09/25/2002 | CN1371095A Objective driver with auxiliary magnetic support | 
| 09/25/2002 | CN1371094A CD machine carrier controlling system and method | 
| 09/24/2002 | US6456451 Method and apparatus for disk drive seek control | 
| 09/24/2002 | US6453722 Integrated test system for a disc drive pivot bearing and actuator | 
| 09/19/2002 | WO2002029813A3 Hybrid burnish/glide head with advanced air bearing fly height control rails | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131337 Method and apparatus for tracking servo system | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131212 Disk drive with a parking ramp for parking heads | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131211 Suspension for disc drive | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131210 Method of manufacturing head suspension assembly and head suspension assembly | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131209 Head slider with high stiffness and low unload force | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131194 Method for wear reduction of a disc surface through stimulated take off of a head for a disc drive | 
| 09/19/2002 | US20020131188 Magnetic disk drive | 
| 09/18/2002 | EP1241670A1 A circuit for estimating the speed of an electromagnetic actuator | 
| 09/18/2002 | EP1127350B1 Overscan helical scan head for non-tracking tape subsystems reading at up to 1x speed and apparatus for simulation of same | 
| 09/18/2002 | CN1091293C Bearing assembly, electrical motor using same, and rotary disc data storage device | 
| 09/18/2002 | CN1091288C Magnetic disc device | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452990 Synchronous detection of wide bi-phase coded servo information for disk drive | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452889 Optical disc apparatus accessing method and system therefor | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452878 Method and device for controlling the position of an optical beam incident on a track of a mobile carrier | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452876 Positioning system and apparatus including the positioning system | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452752 Slider for disc storage system | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452750 Slider including a rail having a concave end and method of manufacturing same | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452739 Precise positioning device and method for servo track writing | 
| 09/17/2002 | US6452735 Disk drive that monitors the flying height of a dual element transducer using a thermally induced signal during write operations | 
| 09/12/2002 | WO2002071404A1 Disk drive device | 
| 09/12/2002 | WO2001031642A3 Actuator arm with tapered trailing edge and recessed head conductor | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020128808 Method and apparatus for characterization of voice-coil motor with eddy current effect | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020127342 Method of manufacturing thin film head | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126590 Track jump control apparatus and track jump method | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126420 Method and apparatus for improved attachment of a micro-actuator to a slider device | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126418 Head slider and disk drive apparatus using the same | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126417 Head shock resistance and head load/unload protection for reducing disk errors and defects, and enhancing data integrity of disk drives | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126412 Apparatus and method for head positioning control in disk drive | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126411 Portable equipment incorporating magnetic disk device | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020126404 Rotation recording apparatus and method of inspection thereof | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020125850 Servo control apparatus and gain adjusting method | 
| 09/12/2002 | US20020124383 Method of fabricating head supporting member | 
| 09/12/2002 | DE10209820A1 Steuervorrichtung für Spursprung und Verfahren für Spursprung Control device for track jump and procedures for track jump | 
| 09/11/2002 | EP1239484A1 Container for laser-readable disc and the like with closure means | 
| 09/11/2002 | CN1369095A PQ enhanced observed based dual stage servo controller | 
| 09/11/2002 | CN1090792C Disk drive magnetic actuator latch mechanism | 
| 09/11/2002 | CN1090791C Magnetic head suspension and its manufactring method for its deflection support | 
| 09/11/2002 | CN1090789C Radial self-propagation pattern generation for disk file servowriting | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449230 Optical disc drive apparatus | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449130 Head stack assembly enabling independent control of a position of magnetic heads for access to different magnetic disks and support method thereof | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449128 Disk drive with head loading and unloading mechanism | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449127 Low mass disc drive suspension | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449126 Negative pressure air bearing slider | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6449116 Compression and storage of written-in error compensation tables in an embedded servo disc drive | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6448543 Near field optical head and reproduction method | 
| 09/10/2002 | US6446326 Method for manufacturing a hard disk read/write unit, with micrometric actuation | 
| 09/06/2002 | WO2002069338A1 Head slider with actuator for fine positioning and method of manufacturing the head slider | 
| 09/06/2002 | WO2002069334A1 Method and apparatus for reading and/or writing a data disk | 
| 09/06/2002 | WO2002069330A1 Head gimbal assembly | 
| 09/05/2002 | US20020122269 Head positioning apparatus and method therfor | 
| 09/05/2002 | US20020122267 Sensor system for disk device using floated head | 
| 09/05/2002 | US20020121908 Method and device for inspecting a microactuator | 
| 09/05/2002 | US20020121839 Microactuator, method for making the same, and magnetic head unit and magnetic recording apparatus using the same | 
| 09/04/2002 | EP1237152A2 Head positioning in a disk storage apparatus | 
| 09/04/2002 | EP1099145A4 Data system with support surfaces for reciprocating data head | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1367920A Method and apparatus for maintaining servo stability during actuator saturation | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1367489A Optical disk drive | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1090424C Signal reproducing apparatus | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1090423C Recording mode control method for combined video appliances | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1090200C Circuit substrate, circuit-formed suspension substrate, and prodn. method thereof | 
| 09/04/2002 | CN1090199C Process for producing polyamide based on dicarboxylic acid and diamine | 
| 09/03/2002 | US6445673 Optical pick-up feeding device | 
| 09/03/2002 | US6445649 Apparatus and method for controlling movement of an optical head | 
| 09/03/2002 | US6445549 Magnetic disk drive |