Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
09/1999
09/07/1999US5949608 Time dependent velocity-controlled disk drive actuator system
09/07/1999US5949602 Method and apparatus for measuring head deviation and method and apparatus for recording/reproducing data
09/07/1999US5949066 System and method for creating and utilizing a sinusoidal based pattern sensor to achieve precise positioning of a movable element
09/02/1999WO1999044194A1 Minimizing settling time in a disc drive servo system
09/02/1999DE19834261A1 Flying head slider for hard disc
09/01/1999EP0799475B1 A method for determining an outer diameter rolloff in a process for making magnetic disks
09/01/1999CN1227385A Flying head slider and recording disk apparatus
09/01/1999CN1227384A Automatic regulator and method for optimum focusing point of CD machine
09/01/1999CN1227370A Image processing apparatus and method
08/1999
08/31/1999US5946706 Programmable control sequencer of disk controller and method for map allocation therefor
08/31/1999US5946164 For supporting a read/write device in an information storage device
08/31/1999US5946156 Tape servo system and methods, write/read heads, and servo track configurations regarding same
08/26/1999DE19909422A1 Servo pattern control for hard disc drives
08/26/1999DE19847425A1 Actuator for magnetic disc drive with magneto-resistive head element protection arrangement
08/25/1999EP0938081A2 Pseudo contact negative pressure air bearing slider with divided negative pressure pockets
08/25/1999EP0938080A1 A magnetic latching apparatus for use in a hard disc drive
08/25/1999EP0868719B1 Magnetic recording device
08/25/1999CN1226722A Actuator having MR element protecting means
08/24/1999US5943312 Sliding-type magnetic head for magnetooptical recording
08/24/1999US5943194 Linear actuator
08/24/1999US5943193 Head park mechanism in a data storage device for preventing accidental damage
08/24/1999US5943192 Magnetic head supporting mechanism for a slider bearing member and method for assembling magnetic disk storage comprising the same
08/24/1999US5943180 Information recording medium and recording/reproducing method for utilizing the same
08/24/1999US5943179 Disk drive apparatus and head switching method
08/24/1999US5942744 Card drive apparatus and card
08/24/1999US5941739 Electrical connection system for a full erase head assembly of a video cassette recorder
08/19/1999WO1999041740A1 Shock, vibration, and handling resistant load beam suspension
08/19/1999DE19848692A1 Information recording device with optical and magnetic recording heads for magneto optical disc unit
08/18/1999EP0936599A2 Flying negative pressure air bearing slider with divided negative pressure pockets
08/18/1999CN1226333A Disc drive servo system with dual head sampling
08/18/1999CN1226053A Information storage apparatus
08/17/1999US5940252 Dual-lead flex circuit for a rotary actuator
08/17/1999US5940251 Head suspension with dynamic vibration absorption extension
08/17/1999US5940250 Disk drive head having a read wide/write narrow architecture
08/17/1999US5940242 Method for determining a position of track-zero and mapping tracks according thereto
08/17/1999US5940239 Velocity/position estimator of magnetic head in magnetic disk driving apparatus
08/17/1999US5940237 Disk medium whose track density is changed in a radial direction and disk apparatus using the same disk medium
08/17/1999US5939707 Circuit for lateral photoeffect position sensor
08/17/1999US5939624 Slider for use in glide head device and methodology for fabricating the same
08/17/1999US5938348 For a mounted object
08/12/1999WO1999040585A1 Apparatus and method for sensing disk-drive head-arm speed during head loading
08/12/1999WO1999040582A1 Playback device for disc-shaped recording media
08/12/1999WO1999040577A1 Method for executing track skipping
08/12/1999DE19846044A1 Cylinder servo circuit for head in disc recording arrangement
08/12/1999DE19804544A1 Verfahren zur Durchführung eines Spursprungs A method for performing a track jump
08/12/1999DE19804541A1 Wiedergabevorrichtung für plattenförmige Aufzeichnungsträger Reproducing apparatus for disc-shaped recording medium
08/11/1999CA2229239A1 Suspension having reduced torsional mode gain and sensitivity
08/10/1999US5937435 System and method for skip-sector mapping in a data recording disk drive
08/10/1999US5936804 Impact features on suspensions for improved damage resiliancy in disk drives
08/10/1999US5936802 Wiring structure in the load beam and guide arm of a magnetic disk drive
08/10/1999US5936800 Uniform fly height slider with decreased sensitivity to roll moments
08/10/1999US5936799 Magnetic head with core portions connected by shock-absorbing portion
08/10/1999US5936792 Positioning adaptive control method and positioning device as well as information storage device
08/10/1999US5936790 Servo sector allocation for high sampling rate
08/10/1999US5936788 Method and apparatus for ramp load and unload
08/05/1999WO1999039346A1 Detection of pulse peak instance and amplitude in a storage drive
08/05/1999WO1999039345A1 Disk drive system having hybrid analog/digital pulse peak instance/amplitude data detection channels
08/05/1999WO1999039335A1 Slider support assembly and method
08/05/1999WO1999006992A9 Method and apparatus for increasing the sample rate of a disc drive with low overhead
08/04/1999EP0933774A1 Disk apparatus
08/04/1999EP0933766A2 Information reproduction apparatus and information recording and reproduction apparatus
08/03/1999US5933408 Optical disk drive
08/03/1999US5933407 Structure for supporting optical pickup
08/03/1999US5933406 Linear guide device
08/03/1999US5933397 Optical storage apparatus having track seek control unit providing improved seek performance
08/03/1999US5933296 Video cassette recorder incorporating therein a head base assembly capable of retaining a video head chip in a horizontal state
08/03/1999US5933295 Magnetic disk drive with carriage lock lever locking mechanism
08/03/1999US5933294 Magnetic head supporting device with a suspension member having an arcuate hole at the slider supporting end
08/03/1999US5933290 Recording an information signal on a record carrier provided with tracking signals
08/03/1999US5932887 Apparatus for measuring the flying height and orientation of a magnetic head relative to a transparent medium based on frustrated total internal reflection
08/03/1999US5932113 Low temperature encapsulation system
08/03/1999US5931697 Device for connecting a hard disk assembly to a printed circuit board
08/03/1999CA2167015C Recording information on an optical disc without using pre-manufactured tracks
08/03/1999CA2053533C Information recording unit, apparatus and method for information recording/reproduction in conjunction with a scanning tunneling microscope
07/1999
07/29/1999WO1999038160A1 Data medium optical recording/reading device
07/27/1999US5930448 Tracking control circuit and method in digital image recording and reproducing device using bit error rate
07/27/1999US5930089 Head cleaner for linear tape drive
07/27/1999US5930082 Magnetic head support device for magnetic disc recording device
07/27/1999US5930067 Multi-harmonic compensator for track following in disk drives
07/27/1999US5930066 Information recording apparatus
07/27/1999US5930065 Timing based servo longitudinal addressing
07/22/1999WO1999036914A1 Apparatus for recording and reproducing information
07/22/1999WO1999036907A1 Modeling position error nonlinearity to improve servo performance
07/21/1999EP0930613A1 Information storage apparatus
07/21/1999EP0930610A2 Disk apparatus
07/21/1999EP0930609A2 Disk apparatus
07/21/1999EP0829084B1 Adaptive control of a write inhibit signal in a disk drive
07/21/1999CN1223392A Corrected servo control signal in servo control loop
07/20/1999US5926451 For reading from and/or writing to an optical disk
07/20/1999US5926447 Method for enhancing the data access time in an optical disc apparatus
07/20/1999US5926344 Floating head slider with concave sides, magnetic disk device with such a slider, and method for controlling air flow in a slider with dust-trapping concave sides
07/20/1999US5926340 Method of compensating for non-linear torque characteristics of a voice coil motor in a computer hard disk drive
07/20/1999US5926338 Method for controlling repeatable following error in a hard disk drive
07/20/1999US5926337 Off-track correcting method of disk apparatus and a disk apparatus using the same
07/20/1999US5926336 Method and apparatus for rewriting servo information on a disk in a hard disk assembly
07/20/1999US5925261 Method for fabricating a taper on a recording head slider
07/20/1999CA2023698C Magnetic head position control apparatus
07/14/1999EP0929069A1 Suspension assembly
07/14/1999EP0929067A1 Magnetic disk apparatus
07/14/1999CN1222731A Disk recording or playback device and method of controlling pickup of device