Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
03/2001
03/13/2001US6201666 Disc drive head suspension with single-point contact feature for ramp load/unload
03/13/2001US6201664 Polymer bumps for trace and shock protection
03/08/2001WO2001016951A1 Disk reproducing system
03/08/2001WO2001016944A1 Wear durability using high wear-resistant slip pads
03/08/2001WO2001016943A1 Slider for disc storage system
03/08/2001DE19942269A1 Piezoelektrische Antriebsvorrichtung Piezoelectric drive unit
03/08/2001DE10013540A1 Servo recovery procedure for use in magnets optical disk drive, involves detecting search frequency of recovery process and accordingly
03/07/2001EP1081772A2 Piezoelectric driving device
03/07/2001EP1081689A1 Disk apparatus and its track counting system
03/07/2001EP1081686A2 Head slider for flexible magnetic disk
03/07/2001CN1286470A Apparatus and method for control of track skip rotating of optical disc driver
03/06/2001US6198607 Contact planar magnetoresistive head
03/06/2001US6198605 Return path geometry to enhance uniformity of force on a linear actuator
03/06/2001US6198604 Method of and apparatus for unlocking an actuator in a disk storage apparatus
03/06/2001US6198603 Device for locking and unlocking a disc drive actuator having locking elements separate from unlocking elements
03/06/2001US6198600 Thin film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof
03/06/2001US6198599 Magnetic head with bonded balls having a capillary mark
03/01/2001WO2001015165A1 Actuator shock snubber
03/01/2001WO2001015151A1 Near field optical head and method for manufacturing the same
03/01/2001WO2001015150A1 Method of manufacturing a scanning device with adjustable frames
03/01/2001WO2001015147A1 Magnetic recording and reproducing device
03/01/2001WO2001014766A1 Constraint-type viscoelastic dampers
03/01/2001WO2000051126A9 Disk apparatus
03/01/2001DE10020092A1 Verfahren und System für eine Spindelmotorsteuerung für das Kopfladen in einem Festplattenantrieb Method and system for a spindle motor control for the head shop in a hard disk drive
02/2001
02/28/2001EP1079382A1 Magnetic head device and record/playback device
02/28/2001EP1079121A1 A pivot assembly
02/28/2001EP1078361A1 Storage disk comprising depressions and/or raised features
02/28/2001EP1078360A1 Controlling a media master writing machine to produce curvilinear servo sector patterns
02/28/2001CN1285947A Magnetic recording/reproducing device
02/28/2001CN1285946A Modeling position error nonlinearity to improve servo performance
02/28/2001CN1285589A Optical head and making method thereof
02/28/2001CN1062675C Information recording medium, equipment and reader and recording method
02/28/2001CN1062672C Contact recording silder for use in lubricant containing information storage system
02/28/2001CN1062671C Full erase head assembler for video cassette recorder
02/27/2001US6195236 Magnetic head assembly, having a spring arm configured for removable attachment to a carriage arm
02/27/2001US6195231 Thin film magnetic data transfer transducer
02/27/2001US6195230 Disk head assembly with multiple read and/or write transducers for improved performance
02/27/2001US6195222 Disk drive with seek profile selection based on a queued vs. non-queued environment
02/27/2001US6195221 Preliminary search method for minimizing drop down phenomenon of hard disk drive
02/27/2001US6195220 Method and apparatus utilizing field ratioing demodulation techniques for a null-type servo pattern
02/27/2001US6195218 Disk drive which efficiently stores zone parameter sets for a plurality of disk surfaces
02/27/2001US6195028 Amplifier gain control method using conditional updating
02/27/2001CA2207076C Methods and apparatus for controlling access to a recording disk
02/22/2001WO2000051110A8 Vibration control of piezoelectric microactuator
02/21/2001CN1062370C Apparatus and method for discriminating optical disk
02/20/2001US6192023 Optical pick-up feeding device having a regulating member to adjust an orientation of a lead screw thereof
02/20/2001US6191923 Magnetic head slider assembly for magnetic disk recording/reproducing apparatus
02/20/2001US6191913 Motor loading system for a disk drive
02/14/2001EP1076338A2 Apparatus and methods for low overhead highly reliable determination of rotational position a magnetic storage medium
02/13/2001US6188661 Recording and reproducing apparatus having elevation mechanism
02/13/2001US6188660 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus
02/13/2001US6188540 System, method, and device for a regenerative constant velocity park for voice coil motor
02/13/2001US6188539 Extended position error signal linearization and normalization
02/13/2001US6188538 Retry off-track positioning table
02/13/2001US6188537 Positioning using a position sensor and a calibrated offset between the position sensor and a reference position
02/13/2001US6188192 Spindle motor back-EMF synchronous rectifier
02/13/2001US6188191 Servo system responsive to temperature changes
02/13/2001US6187877 Process for producing a polyamide based on a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine
02/07/2001EP1074979A2 Head stack assembly, and support method thereof
02/07/2001EP0894321B1 Optical disk drive with a plurality of optical heads of different types
02/06/2001US6185174 Disk drive system having hybrid analog/digital pulse peak instance/amplitude data detection channels
02/06/2001US6185076 Magnetic head carriage for hard disk drive
02/06/2001US6185074 Inertial latch having an interposer that prevents the head from leaving the ramp load during a shock event
02/06/2001US6185071 Head slider having streamlined pads
02/06/2001US6185059 Method of controlling a disk drive for eliminating blanking intervals formed on a storage disk positioned within the drive
02/06/2001US6184903 Apparatus and method for parallel rendering of image pixels
02/01/2001WO2001008155A1 Pq enhanced observer based dual stage servo controller
02/01/2001WO2001008154A1 Disturbance rejection of mechanical interaction for dual-actuator disc drives using adaptive feedforward servo
02/01/2001WO2001008139A1 Repeatable runout compensation using a learning algorithm with scheduled parameters
02/01/2001WO2001008138A1 Disturbance rejection for disc drives using adaptive accelerometer feedforward servo
02/01/2001DE10036161A1 Gleitstück-Struktur Slide structure
01/2001
01/31/2001EP1073043A1 Magnetic disk device and master information disk
01/30/2001US6181669 Apparatus for adjusting a tilt of a disc loaded on a turn table
01/30/2001US6181529 Suspension for disk drive and working method therefore
01/30/2001US6181528 Magnetic disk drive with load/unload structure including a base, a body, ramps, and a H/L ratio of 2 or greater
01/30/2001US6181524 Magnetic disk apparatus with slider and slider supporting mechanism including flexible section integrally formed from same material
01/30/2001US6181523 Head carriage assembly for a magnetic disk drive
01/30/2001US6181521 Method of assembling magnetic head slider and magnetic storage device
01/30/2001US6181520 Head slider and disk unit having contact detection means
01/30/2001US6181518 Transverse pressurization contour slider
01/30/2001US6181506 Tracking control device
01/30/2001US6181505 Synchronous digital demodulator with integrated read and servo channels
01/30/2001US6181503 Magnetic disk device using a contact start stop system
01/30/2001US6181502 Faster access time in a disk drive by utilizing increased VCM potential voltage
01/30/2001US6181500 Self servo rewrite method and apparatus
01/30/2001US6181187 Circuit for auto-centering control loop bias currents
01/25/2001WO2001006513A1 Head actuator
01/25/2001WO2000063753A3 Self tuning model reference controller in a disc drive
01/25/2001DE10020374A1 Disc unit head assembly has head IC chip mounted on suspension by ultrasonic bonding, protruding electrodes bonded onto electrode connection points by ultrasonic bonding
01/25/2001DE10009948A1 Head suspension and structure for information disc device has head IC on mounting surface of head suspension with through hole via which IC is connected to head IC mounting surface
01/24/2001EP1071089A2 Data recording medium and apparatus
01/24/2001EP1070320A1 Optical scanning device having an improved response characteristic
01/24/2001EP1070317A1 Apparatus for the recording or for the reproduction of information with a drive system for a scanning device
01/24/2001CN1281577A Slider for disc storage system
01/24/2001CN1281225A Hard disk equipment, floating block supporting structure magnetic gimbal element and its manufacturing method
01/24/2001CN1061102C Beryllium-containing alloys of aluminium and semi-solid processing of such alloys
01/23/2001US6178157 Flying head with adjustable actuator load
01/23/2001US6178069 Microactuator and method of manufacturing the same
01/23/2001US6178064 Air bearing slider with shaped taper
01/23/2001US6178060 Current profile shaping to reduce disc drive seek time variation and acoustic noise generation