Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
12/2000
12/06/2000EP1058238A2 Head suspension assembly of disk drive
12/06/2000CN1276081A Low mass disc drive suspension
12/06/2000CN1275769A Vibration damper and head suspension element with same
12/05/2000US6157599 Optical storage apparatus
12/05/2000US6157521 Recording/reproducing head positioning mechanism
12/05/2000US6157520 Disc drive head suspension with gimbal contact feature for ramp load/unload
12/05/2000US6157519 Magnetic head gimbal assembly of a magnetic disk unit having a load point matched with the center of impact
12/05/2000US6157518 Head slider having a trapezoidal shape
12/05/2000US6157516 Method and apparatus for preventing electrostatic damage to the read/write head of a tape drive
12/05/2000US6157509 Extending actuator range through magnetic flux reversal detection
11/2000
11/30/2000WO2000072314A1 Disturbance attenuation in a precision servomechanism by a frequency-separated acceleration soft sensor
11/30/2000WO2000072313A1 Converter support structure
11/30/2000WO2000042604A3 Method and apparatus for reducing track misregistration from servo track writing
11/29/2000EP1056080A2 Disc player
11/29/2000EP1056073A1 Disc device
11/29/2000EP1055229A1 Shock, vibration, and handling resistant load beam suspension
11/29/2000CN1275229A High performance standard configuration disc drive having smaller-than-standard discs
11/29/2000CN1274933A Bound magnet, its manufacture and driving device using the same
11/29/2000CN1274921A Ringing-reduced oscillator and CD system using the same
11/29/2000CN1274911A Optical sensor device
11/29/2000CN1274909A Adaptive servo gap detection for sequence servo
11/29/2000CN1059047C Head suspension assembly and its manufacturing method
11/29/2000CN1059042C Method for controlling digital closed servo loop system digital closed servo loop system and disk storge apparatus using the system
11/28/2000US6154431 Recording and reproducing apparatus
11/28/2000US6154430 Disk player with chuck holder capable of pivoting upward and downward
11/28/2000US6154341 System and method for accessing and cleaning a recording system
11/28/2000US6154340 Low velocity disk drive load controller
11/28/2000US6154335 Method and apparatus for positioning a dual element magnetoresistive head
11/28/2000US6154334 Information recording on a multitrack record carrier
11/28/2000US6154330 Disk provided with servo patterns and method of recording servo patterns
11/28/2000US6153997 Disk apparatus and method of controlling disk apparatus
11/23/2000WO2000070612A1 Disk apparatus
11/23/2000WO2000070611A1 Disk apparatus
11/23/2000WO2000023988A3 Overscan helical scan head for non-tracking tape subsystems reading at up to 1x speed and methods for simulation of same
11/22/2000EP1054402A2 Adaptive servo gap detection for timing based servo
11/22/2000EP1053547A1 Playback device for disc-shaped recording media
11/22/2000EP1053544A1 Method for executing track skipping
11/22/2000CN1274484A Appts. and method for modulation/demodlation with consecutive minimum runlength limitation
11/22/2000CN1274464A Method of writing tracking servo signal pattern for magnetic disk device
11/22/2000CN1274458A Magnetic head and method of its prodn.
11/22/2000CN1274434A Control system, driving system and control method, appts. including driving system
11/22/2000CN1274331A Hard disk drive head tray
11/22/2000CN1274147A Magnetic recording/reproducing device
11/22/2000CN1058802C Roll insensitive air bearing slider
11/21/2000US6151284 Disk device having a flexible printed circuit cable providing a small-height structure
11/21/2000US6151197 Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab
11/21/2000US6151195 Magnetic head slider supporting assembly
11/21/2000US6151187 Disk unit, a servo track write system and a servo track write method
11/21/2000US6151186 Trim circuitry and method for accuracy improvement in current sensing for a voice coil driver of the type used to move read/write heads in a hard disk drive, or the like
11/21/2000US6151183 Disk drive device and method for controlling the same
11/21/2000US6151182 Information storing device and method for controlling same to record/reproduce information by selecting one of working modes
11/21/2000US6151181 Magnetic disk device with dummy write function
11/21/2000US6151176 Magnetic head attachment structure in a photographic film apparatus
11/16/2000WO2000068947A1 Information recording medium, information recording / reproducing head, and information storage device
11/16/2000WO2000068940A1 Slider design including stiction reduction pads
11/16/2000WO2000068939A1 Repeatable runout compensation using iterative learning control in a disc storage system
11/16/2000WO2000068938A1 Magnetic disk drive, position controlling method of magnetic heads and recorded medium storing program of the method
11/15/2000EP1052625A2 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus
11/15/2000EP1052475A2 Interferometer, displacement measuring apparatus, and information recording or/and reproducing apparatus using it
11/15/2000EP1051706A1 Data medium optical recording/reading device
11/15/2000CN1273665A Fast and precise positioning of reading and/or writing head in data player and/or recorder
11/15/2000CN1273413A 光盘装置 CD-ROM device
11/14/2000US6148240 Method and apparatus for performing an open-loop current shaping for seeking acoustics reduction in a disk drive
11/14/2000US6147951 Recorded information reproduction method and recorded information reproduction apparatus with multiple reading elements
11/14/2000US6147842 Carriage assembly with components molded to a carriage body
11/14/2000US6147841 Data storage system having a positive actuator latching assembly
11/14/2000US6147838 Air bearing slider with shaped taper
11/14/2000US6147832 Floppy disk drive with PWM control
11/14/2000US6147831 Servo track writer having a servo writer positioning arm with a vibration damper and a method of making a head disk assembly
11/14/2000CA2235104C Digital servo control system for use in disk drives
11/14/2000CA2049706C Disc shaped recording medium and recording/reproducing apparatus therefor
11/09/2000WO2000051110B1 Vibration control of piezoelectric microactuator
11/08/2000EP1050042A1 Slider support assembly and method
11/08/2000EP1050041A1 Optical apparatus for tracking a magnetic tape
11/08/2000CN1272669A Sliding device and method for manufacturing sliding device
11/07/2000US6145053 Data security method using head disk stiction
11/07/2000US6144627 Data recording and reproducing apparatus and method with phase error detection
11/07/2000US6144532 Suspension with readily manufacturable vertically and laterally offset lifter
11/07/2000US6144531 Magnetic head assembly having a suspension with a loading projection and manufacturing method thereof
11/07/2000US6144530 Magnetic head apparatus with head IC chip
11/07/2000US6144529 Slider with negative and positive pressure generating portions and head including the same
11/07/2000US6144517 Magnetic disk device and method of manufacturing same
11/07/2000US6144513 Detecting servo data and servo bursts from discrete time samples of an analog read signal in a sampled amplitude read channel
11/07/2000US6142006 Method and apparatus for calibrating a glide head and detection system for a magnetic disk drive
11/07/2000US6141858 Head suspension lift cam adjustment
11/02/2000WO2000065590A1 Dual mode disc drive and method
11/02/2000WO2000065581A1 Apparatus and method for scanning a rotating information carrier
11/02/2000EP1048086A1 Piezoelectric drive device
11/01/2000CN1272208A Storage card and device
11/01/2000CN1271934A Method and system for providing control of main shaft motor in disk drive
11/01/2000CN1058099C Dynamic controlling device for fly height of magnetic head on surface of magnetic disc
10/2000
10/31/2000US6141780 Fabrication process acceptance tester and fabrication process using a maintenance region of a disk
10/31/2000US6141189 Laminated steel return path with actuator support features
10/31/2000US6141182 Magnetic head assembly with contact-type head chip mounting and electrically connecting arrangements
10/31/2000US6141181 Magnetic disk apparatus with floating sliders having obliquely mounted rails
10/31/2000US6141176 Data storage disk with information encoded in the position error signal fields
10/31/2000US6141173 Head mechanism control apparatus, disk drive unit, and method of controlling head unload
10/31/2000US6140814 Disk glide testing with zone detection
10/31/2000US6140791 Method and apparatus for controlling the acceleration trajectory of positioning a high-velocity transducer and for reducing the harmonic content thereof
10/31/2000US6140784 Power off velocity control for disk drives