Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
04/2000
04/26/2000EP0996114A2 Servo system and method with multiple phase clock
04/25/2000USRE36672 Read/write head retract mechanism
04/25/2000US6055134 Combined load/unload ramp and snubber for disc drives
04/25/2000US6055132 Integrated lead suspension flexure for attaching a micro-actuator with a transducer slider
04/25/2000US6055131 Magnetic head suspension having selected thicknesses for enhancing rigidity
04/25/2000US6055130 Slider with negative pressure air bearing
04/25/2000US6055129 Flying negative pressure air bearing slider with divided negative pressure pockets
04/25/2000US6055128 Dual etch step pad air bearing design with three etch depths
04/25/2000US6055127 Disc head slider having surface discontinuities to minimize fly stiction
04/25/2000US6055125 Cartridge load and eject mechanism for a removable cartridge drive
04/25/2000US6055122 Magnetic recording apparatus having a reduced thickness
04/25/2000US6054833 Disk drive having improved head-velocity control, and method therefor
04/25/2000US6054828 Circuitry and methods for adjusting and switching the gain of a digital-to-analog converter in a disk drive
04/25/2000US6053061 Sliding feed mechanism having worm gear
04/25/2000US6052890 Method of making a head disk assembly using a propagated light beam to detect a clearance between a disk and a head
04/20/2000WO2000022614A1 Disc drive method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting seek operations
04/20/2000WO2000022613A1 Head suspension with flexible circuit interconnect for reduced moisture permeability
04/20/2000DE19948334A1 Hard disk drive control system, for reducing the noise generated by the movement of the transducer head in a hard disk drive, uses a controller to provide a sinusoidal function of time for the acceleration of the transducers head
04/19/2000EP0994478A1 Head control unit for a disk apparatus
04/19/2000EP0994474A1 Disc drive and control thereof
04/19/2000EP0994467A2 Head control unit in a disk apparatus
04/19/2000EP0766883B1 Actuator retraction circuit
04/19/2000CN1250934A Tracing control method
04/18/2000US6052358 Head feeding mechanism and optical pick-up feeding mechanism
04/18/2000US6052259 Head support arm having conductive wires of a disk drive device
04/18/2000US6052252 Adaptive feed forward device for reducing current control errors
04/18/2000US6052251 Actuator arm integrated piezoelectric microactuator
04/18/2000US6052250 Disk drive with separately determined servo and data track pitch
04/18/2000US6052244 Servo signal processing apparatus, recorded data reading apparatus and method for processing servo signal
04/18/2000US6052243 Magnetic disk unit for detecting contact between a magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk and method therefor
04/18/2000US6049969 Head-disc merge station for a disc drive
04/18/2000US6049968 Method for producing floating type of magnetic head used in a magnetic recording apparatus
04/18/2000CA2017841C Digital transmission system using subband coding of a digital signal
04/13/2000WO2000021145A1 Piezoelectric drive device
04/13/2000DE19949155A1 Actuator arm for a hard disk drive, has a magnetic latch formed from the base plate of the actuator support
04/13/2000DE19846835A1 Verfahren zur Spurlageregelung Method for tracking control
04/12/2000EP0992995A1 Driving device and servo method
04/12/2000CN1250207A Method for producing magnetic head slug and method for producing combined recording head
04/11/2000US6049444 Rotatable door and door opening mechanism for a cartridge
04/11/2000US6049442 Multiply-written servo burst patterns for minimizing position error in servo disk drives
04/11/2000US6049441 Method and apparatus for real-time filtering of a position error signal for a disk drive servo system
04/11/2000US6049440 Self written read/write track servo parameter for spindle RRO compensation
04/11/2000US6049438 Method and apparatus for encoding digital servo information in a servo burst
04/11/2000US6049437 Apparatus for providing new servo information on a disk without entirely erasing old servo information
04/06/2000WO2000019427A1 Extending actuator range through magnetic flux reversal detection
04/06/2000WO2000019417A1 Actuator assembly debris reduction
04/06/2000DE19845134A1 Piezoelektrische Antriebsvorrichtung Piezoelectric drive unit
04/05/2000EP0991175A1 High-performance integrated microactuator, particularly for a hard disc read/write transducer
04/05/2000EP0991056A2 Disk recording or playback device and method of adjusting initial position of pickup thereof
04/05/2000EP0991055A1 Magnetic head device and disc drive device
04/05/2000CN1249840A Tape servo system and method, write/read heads, and servo track configurations
04/05/2000CN1249516A Negative pressure air bearing slider
04/05/2000CN1249511A Disk record system and method for controlling rotating of rotary disk in system
04/05/2000CN1249504A Disk recording/replaying unit and its pick-up initial position adjusting method
04/05/2000CN1249502A Loading mechanism with matched finger for loading magnetic disc support assembly on magnetic disc
04/04/2000US6046976 Disc cartridge with grooves for a recording and reproducing apparatus
04/04/2000US6046974 Optical pickup transport mechanism
04/04/2000US6046888 Base plate-mounted microactuator for a suspension
04/04/2000US6046887 Suspension for disc drive
04/04/2000US6046884 Low mass disc drive suspension
04/04/2000US6046883 Head suspension having a flexure motion limiter
04/04/2000US6046878 Object positioning using discrete sliding mode control with variable parameters
04/04/2000US6046877 Protection apparatus and method for hard disk drive unit of a portable computer
03/2000
03/30/2000WO2000017866A1 Positioning system and apparatus including the positioning system
03/30/2000DE19941109A1 Drive for hard disc has magnetic substance fixed at defined point on spool to lie in region of boundary between poles of permanent magnet when head is in parking zone
03/30/2000DE19929504A1 Vacuum air bearing slider for data storage device has single air bearing surface, pair of air bearing surfaces on underside of sliding body, air flow passage formed between pair of surfaces
03/29/2000EP0989549A1 Method and apparatus for controlling a voice control motor in a hard disk drive
03/29/2000EP0989548A2 Voice coil motor control circuit and method
03/29/2000EP0988631A1 Laser assisted track width definition and radial control with magnetic recording
03/29/2000EP0667615B1 Load/unload apparatus and driving control circuit
03/29/2000CN1248772A Disc driving device
03/28/2000US6044334 Method for calculating an amount and determining a position of an eccentric mass of a rotary head apparatus of a fixed shaft type and apparatus for calculating and determining the same
03/28/2000US6044057 Optical disk drive having an adjusting mechanism for adjusting phase and tilt
03/28/2000US6043957 Head positioning mechanism for magnetic disk device provided with micro tracking actuator using magnetic force and drive control method therefor
03/28/2000US6043956 Suspension for disk drive
03/28/2000US6043954 Cartridge load and eject mechanism for a removable cartridge drive
03/28/2000US6043952 Method of positioning a head in a disk drive using groups of servo bursts
03/28/2000US6042658 Rotatable actuator armset produced by precision investment casting of aluminum-based alloy containing significant amounts of beryllium
03/23/2000WO2000016332A1 Concentric spacing of virtual data tracks using run-out compensation
03/22/2000EP0986810A1 Apparatus for recording data in parallel tracks
03/22/2000CN1248048A Magnetic head assembly and magnetic disk drive
03/21/2000US6041028 Dynamic adjustment of disk-drive pickup signals
03/21/2000US6040960 Air damper for disc drive actuator latch mechanism
03/21/2000US6040959 Slider with blunt edges
03/21/2000US6040958 Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk apparatus having the magnetic head slider
03/21/2000US6040674 Motor driving device, method of adjusting the same, and information storage device
03/16/2000WO2000000976A3 Synchronous digital demodulator with integrated read and servo channels
03/16/2000DE19942434A1 Position detector for optic receiver in optic disk recording or reproduction device, e.g. CD drive, having switch arranged between input of controller and motor
03/15/2000EP0986102A2 Polycrystalline silicon carbide ceramic wafer and substrate
03/15/2000EP0986049A1 Head assembly and disk drive
03/15/2000EP0985211A2 Optical scanning unit comprising a first and a second lens unit
03/15/2000EP0985209A1 Head gimbal protection for a disk drive
03/15/2000CN1050434C Seal for bearings in small angle oscillation applications
03/15/2000CN1050433C Tribo-attractive contact slider for optical read/write storage system
03/14/2000US6038113 Surface Characteristics of a Magnetic disk and a magnetic disk apparatus
03/14/2000US6038111 Cartridge having brushes above and below a cleaning tape for cleaning the reciprocating read/write head of a magnetic tape player and/or recorder
03/14/2000US6038104 Rotating disk type information storage apparatus having a movable member integrated with a support member
03/14/2000US6038102 Conductor trace array having interleaved passive conductors
03/14/2000US6038101 Magnetic head and method of manufacturing magnetic head
03/14/2000US6038096 Adaptive sector seeking method for reducing disk drive power consumption