Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
01/2002
01/08/2002US6337777 Method and apparatus for controlling data write operations
01/03/2002WO2002001562A1 Sensor system for disk device using floated head
01/03/2002US20020001279 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus and disc reproducing apparatus
01/03/2002US20020001265 Servo control apparatus for optical disc player
01/03/2002US20020001259 Slider for optical head, method for preparation thereof and recording and/or reproducing apparatus
01/03/2002US20020001157 Negative pressure air-lubricated bearing slider
01/03/2002US20020001154 Electronic device for driving an actuator device for a hard disk and for driving a motor that turns the hard disk
01/03/2002US20020001153 Fully digital control and drive combination IC with on-board DSP for disk mass storage device
01/02/2002EP1053544B1 Method for executing track skipping
01/02/2002EP0740830A4 Disk drive employing adaptive read/write channel for optimizing head-media-channel performance
01/02/2002CN1329728A Disk security apparatus and method using static friction
01/02/2002CN1329335A Servosystem capable of coarse tuning drive device
01/02/2002CN1077315C Structure and shell assembly for disk drive
01/02/2002CN1077314C Device for replay disc information
01/02/2002CN1077308C Apparatus and method for providing multimedia data
01/01/2002US6335915 Optical pickup sending device
01/01/2002US6335914 Optical disc device
01/01/2002US6335843 Recording medium driving device
12/2001
12/27/2001WO2001099111A1 Disk device
12/27/2001WO2001099104A2 Head pitch adjustment for disc drive
12/27/2001US20010056334 ABS shape correction method for slider of magnetic head, and ABS shape correction apparatus for slider of magnetic head
12/27/2001US20010055183 Contact planar magnetoresistive head
12/27/2001US20010055182 Dual stage actuator systems for high density hard disk drives using annular rotary piezoelectric actuators
12/27/2001US20010055176 Information recording and reproducing device and tracking servo system therefor
12/27/2001US20010055174 Adjustable writer overshoot for a hard disk drive write head
12/27/2001US20010054850 Linear voice coil actuator with compensating coils
12/27/2001US20010054225 Apparatus and method for separating head gimbal assembly from bonding jig
12/26/2001CN1328685A Disk drive, method of producing the same, and disk drive controller
12/25/2001US6333901 Disc reproducing apparatus for determining a track jump
12/25/2001US6333839 Tolerance ring with low consistent installation force profile
12/25/2001US6333834 Rattle reduction mechanism in a removable cartridge for a disk drive
12/25/2001US6332264 Method of manufacturing slider and slider manufacturing aid
12/20/2001WO2001097222A1 Pickup guide shaft adjusting device
12/20/2001WO2001097221A2 Drive level flow-field conditioning to reduce flow field turbulence
12/20/2001WO2001097215A1 Reducing actuator arm oscillation during settle mode in a disc drive servo system
12/20/2001US20010053119 Seek control method and device for optical disk
12/20/2001US20010053050 Disc drive with improved head pitch adjustment
12/20/2001US20010053049 Information storage apparatus and carriage
12/20/2001US20010053048 Actuator with reinforced voice coil
12/20/2001US20010053046 Flying head slider capable of avoiding collision when loaded
12/20/2001US20010053038 Method and system for controlling the positioning of a read/write head of a data recording device
12/20/2001US20010052543 Magnetic data cardreader system
12/19/2001EP0786133B1 Synchronous detection of concurrent servo bursts for fine head position in disk drive
12/19/2001CN1327579A Method for manufacturing a scanning device with adjustable frames
12/19/2001CN1327578A Magnetic head supporting mechanism
12/19/2001CN1327235A Method and system for establishing primary record track group in self servo write system
12/19/2001CN1327230A 信息记录媒体及其记录方法和重放方法 Information recording medium and recording method and reproducing method
12/19/2001CN1076501C Laser disc player
12/19/2001CN1076500C Magnetic head sub-ambient air pressure slider for a disc drive device or the like
12/18/2001US6330742 Magnetic head positioning method
12/13/2001WO2001095329A1 Dual stage actuator systems for high density hard disk drives using annular rotary piezoelectric actuators
12/13/2001WO2001041132A3 Fly height control over patterned media
12/13/2001US20010050898 Disc ejecting apparatus
12/13/2001US20010050832 Magnetic head and read/write apparatus having reduced stress in a slider and supporter
12/13/2001US20010050827 Method and apparatus for reducing acoustic noise in a hard disk drive
12/13/2001US20010050826 Head fly height by using the applied peak area ratio to determine signal pw50
12/13/2001US20010050824 Servo area numbering strategy for computer disk drives
12/13/2001US20010050823 Disc drive apparatus
12/13/2001DE10127390A1 Diskette ejector has ejection device connected to holder drive motor during final stage of returning holder to initial position; diskette is ejected as result of slip mechanism's slipping action
12/12/2001EP0723697B1 Flex circuit with a vibration sensor and method and apparatus using such a flex circuit
12/12/2001CN1326195A Servo recording method and system on data record media
12/11/2001US6330219 Disk recording/reproducing device
12/11/2001US6330209 Load and unload control for magneto-optical disk drive
12/11/2001US6330134 Head assembly and storage device
12/11/2001US6330133 Trailing edge rail shaping
12/11/2001US6330131 Reduced stiction air bearing slider
12/11/2001US6330125 Exchangeable storage apparatus, recording medium drive actuator, head drive actuator and recording medium cartridge
12/11/2001US6330124 Magnetic disk device using a contact start stop system
12/06/2001US20010048657 Objective lens driving mechanism in optical storage device
12/06/2001US20010048566 Disk apparatus and disk medium
12/05/2001EP1160788A2 Disk apparatus and disk medium
12/05/2001CN1325109A CD drive device
12/04/2001US6327229 Storage device and its seek control method
12/04/2001US6327120 Actuator using piezoelectric element and head-positioning mechanism using the actuator
12/04/2001US6327119 Inertial latch for mobile disc drive
12/04/2001US6327112 Adjacent track position detectable information storage apparatus
12/04/2001US6326553 Scheme to avoid electrostatic discharge damage to MR/GMR head gimbal/stack assembly in hard disk applications
12/04/2001CA2312044C Digital servo control system for use in disk drives
12/02/2001CA2309876A1 Head carriage assembly and method
11/2001
11/29/2001WO2001091122A2 Flexible air bearing design system with independent profile mapping and height field definition for mask tiers
11/29/2001WO2001043125A3 Device for scanning a rotating information carrier
11/29/2001US20010046108 Fly height control slider with crown and cross curve de-coupling
11/29/2001US20010046107 Actuator, information recording/reproducing device, and method of manufacturing actuator
11/29/2001US20010046105 Method for correcting surface shape of magnetic head slider and magnetic head slider
11/29/2001US20010046103 Method of detecting position on disk, disk unit and disk
11/29/2001US20010045681 Coating surfaces in cavity with disc drive compatible lubricant as release agent to provide layer of predetermined thickness on fabricated load/unload ramp, injecting polymer into lubricant coated cavity, solidifying melt
11/29/2001US20010045004 Disc drive with actuator arm configured for reduced out-of-phase motion
11/28/2001EP1158547A2 Electromagnetic actuator and composite electro-magnetic actuator apparatus
11/28/2001EP1158520A2 Positioning actuator with lower inductance voice coil motor
11/28/2001EP1158511A2 Portable device damage prediction and data backup
11/28/2001EP1158499A2 Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof
11/28/2001EP1158376A2 Apparatus with a control circuit
11/28/2001CN1324482A Concentric spacing of virtual data tracks using run-out compensation
11/28/2001CN1324479A Liquid crystal polymer disk drive suspension assembly
11/28/2001CN1324071A Mechanism for adjusting tilt of optical-sensor for disc player
11/28/2001CN1324010A Device having control circuit
11/28/2001CN1323721A Damper sheet continuous conveying body
11/27/2001US6324132 Method and system for controlling the positioning of a read/write head of a data recording device
11/27/2001US6324035 Apparatus for storing preferential information
11/27/2001US6324034 Spacer/stop assembly and disc drive with spacer/stop assembly