Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
10/2000
10/31/2000US6140661 Loader with a matching finger that loads a head gimbal assembly onto a disk
10/31/2000US6139407 Method for processing using beam of magnetic line of force, apparatus for carrying out said method, and carriage member for hard disk drive processed by said method
10/26/2000WO2000063907A2 Rotationally optimized seek initiation
10/26/2000WO2000063896A1 Adaptive h-infinity hardware controller for disc drive actuator control
10/26/2000WO2000063895A1 Apparatus and method for controlled excitation of a servomechanism
10/26/2000WO2000063894A2 Dual stage servo controller
10/26/2000WO2000063893A1 Servo processor code evaluation using a virtual disc drive
10/26/2000WO2000063892A1 Inertial latch for mobile disc drive
10/26/2000WO2000063891A2 Actuator latch for disc drive
10/26/2000WO2000063890A1 Load/unload lift tab for disk drive
10/26/2000WO2000063888A2 Active magnetic bearing system for improved servo control
10/26/2000WO2000063753A2 Self tuning model reference controller in a disc drive
10/26/2000WO2000028528A3 Subambient pressure slider
10/25/2000EP1046167A1 Velocity limited loading of read heads onto disk drive media
10/25/2000EP1046160A1 Positioning system and apparatus including the positioning system
10/25/2000CN1271451A Repeated servo runout error compensation in a disc drive
10/24/2000US6137765 Optical disc drive apparatus with inclination angle correcting mechanism
10/24/2000US6137753 Runout calibration for disc drive system
10/24/2000US6137751 Method for controlling moving time of sled depending on deviation between decks during initialization of optical disk reproducing apparatus
10/24/2000US6137658 Apparatus for guiding and locking a rotary actuator
10/24/2000US6137651 Flexured mounting system for friction reduction and friction linearization in linear actuator for disk drive
10/24/2000US6137647 Automatic gain control circuit for use in detecting servo pulses for controlling the position of a read head in a hard disk drive
10/24/2000US6137646 Disk apparatus using coincidence detection to generate variable sector pulses
10/19/2000WO2000062404A1 Spindle motor and disk device
10/19/2000WO2000062288A1 Disk player
10/19/2000WO2000042602B1 Head switch seek on disc drives with multiple recording heads
10/18/2000CN2401965Y Portable installation tools for assembling large reluctance magnetic head spring holder assembly
10/18/2000CN2401963Y Float block automatic glue dropping machine
10/18/2000CN1270692A Method for playing back a recording medium
10/18/2000CN1270392A Pickup device
10/17/2000US6134377 Disk regenerative apparatus
10/17/2000US6134086 Actuator crash stopper for a hard disk drive
10/17/2000US6134084 Suspension assembly having a head IC chip mounting portion
10/17/2000US6134083 Self-loading head slider having angled leading rails and non-divergent notched cavity dam
10/17/2000US6134077 Latch for disc drives
10/17/2000US6134076 Adjustment feature for load/unload alignment of multiple disk stack ramp assembly
10/17/2000US6134075 Magnetic head suspension with single layer preshaped trace interconnect
10/17/2000US6134074 Reproducing apparatus having tracking control in accordance with track number information
10/17/2000US6134072 Tracking of non-native stripes in helical scan tape drive
10/17/2000US6134071 Disk drive, load/unload unit, and control method thereof
10/17/2000US6134070 Encoded servo track configurations, servo writer and systems/method regarding same
10/17/2000US6134069 Method of power saving in a disk drive apparatus with head unloading and spin reduction
10/17/2000US6131816 Data system with support surfaces for reciprocating data head
10/12/2000WO2000060582A1 Method for correcting surface shape of magnetic head slider and magnetic head slider
10/11/2000EP1043712A2 Magnetic head and magnetic head apparatus
10/11/2000CN1269904A Constant density servo information in disc drive
10/11/2000CN1269668A Record searching information and method and apparatus for searching digital data stream of record
10/10/2000US6130874 Optical card information recording/reproducing apparatus with device for mounting optical card
10/10/2000US6130865 Apparatus and method for positioning an optical head over a disk having spiral tracks with encoded address information
10/10/2000US6130863 Slider and electro-magnetic coil assembly
10/10/2000US6130808 Hovering-type head slider and magnetic disc device
10/10/2000US6130807 Information storage disc having a curved disc surface
10/10/2000US6130803 Actuator locking mechanism
10/10/2000US6130799 Signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus, method, and medium with pilot signal and tracking servo signal recorded at different azimuth angles
10/10/2000US6130798 Hardware PES calculator
10/10/2000US6130796 Adaptive track pitch control method and apparatus for disk drives
10/10/2000US6130792 Flat servo bursts for arcuate track scanner
10/10/2000US6129579 Low inductance flex-to-PCB spring connector for a disc drive
10/04/2000EP1040395A1 Control system, driving system and control method, apparatus including the driving system
10/04/2000CN1269047A Slider for optical disc data storage system
10/04/2000CN1268748A Shock absorber and head supporting arm having such absorber
10/04/2000CN1268740A CD disc driving device, CD driving method and CD disc device
10/03/2000US6128256 Apparatus and method for positioning an optical head over a disk having pre-groups with encoded address information
10/03/2000US6128162 Head slider with constant flying height over sliding range
10/03/2000US6128155 High density magnetic recording apparatus including a hologram type magnetic head positioning system
10/03/2000US6128154 Servo control method for a high capacity hard disk drive
10/03/2000US6128153 Head position control for a disk drive which performs recording about the rotational center even if the recorded servo information is eccentric
10/03/2000US6127794 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit device for driving it
10/03/2000CA2210108C Optical disc apparatus accessing method and system therefor
09/2000
09/28/2000WO2000057418A1 Method and apparatus for reducing the coupling of the reaction force from the head actuator into the track follow servo loop of a media drive
09/27/2000EP1039529A1 Method for manufacturing a microintegrated structure with buried connections, in particular an integrated microactuator for a hard-disk drive unit
09/27/2000EP1039465A2 Pickup guide mechanism
09/27/2000EP0807189B1 Hard disk drive components and methods of making same
09/27/2000EP0763235B1 Control system utilizing an adaptive predictor
09/27/2000CN1267881A Magnetic head slider suspension, magnetic head assembly and producing method and information recording and replaying apparatus
09/27/2000CN1267880A Magnetic head sliding block and its producing method and magnetic disc
09/26/2000US6125086 Method and apparatus for high speed reproduction of information recorded on an optical recording medium
09/26/2000US6125017 Actuator crash stops providing a two-stage braking impulse
09/26/2000US6125016 Disk drive including embedded voice coil magnet plates
09/26/2000US6125008 Flying head positioner having rotational fine positioning and adjustable actuator load
09/26/2000US6125007 Membrane seal secured to inner and outer oscillating bearing members for small angle oscillations within confined axial space
09/26/2000US6125006 Voice coil motor actuated video data cartridge release
09/26/2000US6125004 Magnetic head and method of manufacturing a magnetic head
09/26/2000US6125000 Disk drive seek control system utilizing predicted motion parameter and dynamic trajectory alignment
09/26/2000US6124996 Servo system and method with multiple phase clock
09/20/2000EP1037202A2 Head slider and recording disk drive
09/20/2000EP1037201A2 Magnetic head transferring device of hard disk drive
09/20/2000EP1036392A1 Optical servo system for a tape drive
09/20/2000CN1267385A Ramp load assembly for disc drive
09/19/2000US6122234 Recording disk drive using a synchronous driving motor
09/19/2000US6122232 Isolation apparatus for use in disc drive system to mitigate effects of undesired mechanical forces and disc drive system including same
09/19/2000US6122134 Combined longitudinal and transversal tracking
09/19/2000US6122132 Disk drive head position encoder
09/19/2000US6122131 Adaptively-controlled disk drive assembly
09/19/2000US6122130 Intelligent lubricant for ramp load/unload
09/19/2000US6122125 Head selectable servo notch filter and method for improving servo system performance
09/19/2000US6122122 Read/write apparatus provided with head and sector address recognition means and an address recognition method for the same apparatus
09/19/2000US6121742 Control scheme for multi-actuator disc drive
09/14/2000DE10005651A1 Method and device for tracing temporal search information and for searching recorded digital data streams on videodisks by using search information uses temporal information as temporal data in navigation information.
09/13/2000CN1266528A Model validation algorithm for characterizing parameters and uncertiainty in a disc drive