Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
03/1999
03/09/1999US5880902 Method and apparatus for adaptively calibrating disk drive performance based on real time performance monitoring
03/09/1999US5880901 Method and apparatus for positioning a magnetoresistive head
03/09/1999US5880900 Error recovery method and disk drive apparatus to superimpose a vibration signal with one-half frequency onto a driving signal to a magnetoresistive head
03/09/1999US5880587 Method and apparatus for performing in file slider take-off measurements through tuned external AE detection
03/09/1999US5880456 Circuit provides a normalized position signal for lateral photoeffect position sensor
03/09/1999US5879570 One piece flexure for a hard disc file head with selective nickel plating
03/04/1999WO1999010887A1 Cartridge load and eject mechanism for a removable cartridge drive
03/04/1999WO1998041832A3 Disk drive head position encoder
03/04/1999DE19807272A1 Optical storage arrangement
03/04/1999CA2302149A1 Cartridge load and eject mechanism for a removable cartridge drive
03/03/1999EP0898813A1 Data and servo sampling in synchronous data detection channel
03/02/1999US5878015 Laser driver for controlling electrical current passed to a laser in an optical disc system
03/02/1999US5878005 Information recording/reproducing apparatus for periodically executing servo processing
03/02/1999US5877922 Dual latch apparatus for restraining a direct access storage device actuator
03/02/1999US5877921 High shock suspension with load beam shielded flexure
03/02/1999US5877917 Floppy disk unit
03/02/1999US5877914 Amplifier output clamping scheme
03/02/1999US5877910 Dual magnetic head and method for writing on very high track density and conventional track density floppy disks
03/02/1999US5877857 Eccentricity tester for head turnout zone of magnetic disk and testing method thereof
03/02/1999US5877605 Servo device having plural servo systems
02/1999
02/25/1999WO1999009548A1 Disk and drive system and methods with carbon overcoat for load/unload applications
02/25/1999WO1999009547A1 Slider for disc storage system
02/25/1999WO1999009546A2 Constant density servo information in a disc drive
02/25/1999WO1999009545A1 Ramp load assembly for a disc drive
02/25/1999WO1999009544A1 Disk drive actuator using fiber composite material
02/24/1999CN1208927A Disk unit, servo track write system and servo track write method
02/23/1999US5875166 Optical pick-up apparatus having low coefficient of friction between slide bearing and guiding member
02/23/1999US5875158 Servo control system for information storage device
02/23/1999US5875155 Optical disk unit having reduced recording and reproducing errors
02/23/1999US5875083 Magnetic disc having planiarized CSS zone
02/23/1999US5875077 Method of writing servo data on a magnetic disk medium
02/23/1999US5875076 Asymmetrical actuator structure for recording-reproducing apparatus
02/23/1999US5875074 Adjustable head loading apparatus
02/23/1999US5875073 Single, central limit stop for a disc drive actuator
02/23/1999US5875072 For use in a data storage disk drive
02/23/1999US5875071 Magnetic disk data storage system
02/23/1999US5875066 Method and apparatus for real-time filtering of a position error signal for a disk drive servo system
02/23/1999US5875064 Method and system for accurate self-servowriting with normalization in a disk drive
02/23/1999CA2147336C Method of and apparatus for recording and reproducing optical information
02/18/1999WO1999008269A1 Model validation algorithm for characterizing parameters and uncertainty in a disc drive
02/18/1999WO1999008268A1 Method of implementing a linear discrete-time state-space servo control system on a fixed-point digital signal processor in a disc drive
02/18/1999WO1999008267A1 Disc drive with robust track following servo controller
02/17/1999EP0896716A1 Pwm/linear driver for disk drive voice coil actuator
02/16/1999US5872766 Device for adjusting the preload of a plate spring for an optical pickup apparatus
02/16/1999US5872688 Computer disc drive system
02/16/1999US5872687 Transducer suspension system
02/16/1999US5872683 Floating type of magnetic head
02/16/1999US5872679 Structure and enclosure assembly for a disk drive
02/16/1999US5872678 Enclosure assembly for a disk with a locational and retention cast docket structure for a connector and flexible cable connected to an electronics card
02/16/1999US5872676 Method and apparatus for positioning a dual element magnetoresistive head using thermal signals
02/16/1999US5872674 Actuator bias prediction using lookup-table hysteresis modeling
02/16/1999US5872673 Information storage device
02/16/1999US5872671 Disk drive apparatus and read error recovery procedure therein
02/16/1999US5872670 Methods and apparatus for preventing disk drive damage by parking a transducer during microprocessor failures
02/16/1999US5872669 Disk drive apparatus with power conservation capability
02/16/1999US5872439 Motor control device
02/11/1999WO1999006999A1 Servo track writers
02/11/1999WO1999006993A1 Low mass disc drive suspension
02/11/1999WO1999006992A1 Method and apparatus for increasing the sample rate of a disc drive with low overhead
02/11/1999WO1998048412A3 Microactuator servo system in a disc drive
02/10/1999EP0799478B1 A system and method for controlling a seek operation in a disk drive
02/10/1999CN1207539A Boundary detection method, and method and device for determination of magnetic head position thereby
02/09/1999US5870694 Velocity detector and velocity detection method for a sled motor
02/09/1999US5870375 Disk-shaped recording medium with a groove section having a wobbling side wall
02/09/1999US5870367 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus
02/09/1999US5870362 Slider for optical disc data storage system
02/09/1999US5870258 Conductive trace flexure for a magnetic head suspension assembly
02/09/1999US5870250 Method and apparatus for improving file capacity using different flying height profiles
02/09/1999US5870249 Magnetic disk drive in which change in distance between magnetic head and disk is minimized
02/09/1999US5870242 Disk apparatus and method of measuring frequency characteristic thereof
02/09/1999US5870241 Method and apparatus for evasive maneuvering to keep DASD heads away from protruding surface defects
02/09/1999US5870238 Switching offset value as need to improve sector pulse generation for a hard disk drive
02/04/1999WO1999005679A1 Positive pressure optical slider having trailing end side pads
02/04/1999WO1999005678A1 Slider for optical disc data storage system
02/04/1999WO1998050911A3 Information processing with a plurality of optical discs
02/03/1999EP0895239A2 Optical track sensing device
02/03/1999EP0895237A1 Hard disk drive
02/03/1999EP0895225A1 Method of controlling flying of magnetic head and device therefor in hard disk drive
02/03/1999EP0894321A1 Optical disk drive with a plurality of optical heads of different types
02/03/1999CN1206915A 磁头装置 Head means
02/02/1999US5867464 Device for reading an information carrier, including a discriminator for determining the type of information carrier
02/02/1999US5867353 Off-track PES calibration for a magneto-resistive element
02/02/1999US5867348 Disk drive actuator assembly with rotational imbalance compensation
02/02/1999US5867342 Tracking servo system for magnetic disc drive with reduced head-settling time
02/02/1999US5867341 Disc drive system using multiple pairs of embedded servo bursts
02/02/1999US5867340 Microminiature hard disk drive with adaptive runout compensation
02/02/1999US5867337 Disk drive of a sector servo system for positioning and controlling a head at a target position on a disk
02/02/1999US5867330 Reproducing apparatus detecting pilot signals by binary data processing
01/1999
01/28/1999WO1999004388A1 Magnetic read/write head actuator assembly
01/27/1999EP0893797A2 Compact tape drive head positioning system
01/27/1999EP0795172B1 Direct access storage device with magneto-resistive transducing head apparatus
01/27/1999CN1206488A Recording/reproducing head, recording/reproducing head positioning mechanism and recorder/reproducer
01/26/1999US5864449 Precision limit stop for high density disk drives
01/26/1999US5864447 Disk drive with stopper mechanism including a cushion member seated on a circumferential groove
01/26/1999US5864446 Head assembly for recording and reproducing including a head supporting part having a protection member
01/26/1999US5864444 Actuator arm bumper in a disc drive
01/26/1999US5864441 Actuator mounting apparatus for top-down data storage system assembly
01/26/1999CA2040701C Information recording/reproducing apparatus
01/21/1999DE19822755A1 Disc player
01/20/1999EP0891619A1 System for recording and/or reproducing information, medium for use in the system, and magnetic write head and arrangement for formatting the medium