Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
08/1998
08/04/1998US5790332 Method and apparatus for generating clock signals having count closure and deterministically optimized phase closure
08/04/1998US5789891 Speed detection apparatus, speed control motor, and track jump control circuit
08/04/1998US5787570 Load distribution measurement and adjustment device
07/1998
07/29/1998EP0855709A1 Disk apparatus
07/29/1998EP0855080A1 Roll-biased head suspension for reduced track misregistration
07/28/1998US5787066 Both-sided optical disc player capable of transferring a both-sided disc up and down about an optical pickup
07/28/1998US5786964 Magnetic disk drive unit with improved signal feeding and extracting arrangement
07/28/1998US5786962 Magnetic head assembly
07/28/1998US5786961 Suspension assembly with ball for static attitude compensation and load point
07/28/1998US5786958 Head tracking servo pattern
07/28/1998US5786957 Magnetic disk device using non-aligned read and write heads with tracking servos and a rotary actuator
07/28/1998US5785432 Outer ring spacer for double row rolling bearing unit
07/23/1998WO1998032129A1 Slider having terminated side rails with trailing edge cuts
07/23/1998WO1998032127A1 Taperless/crown free/air bearing design
07/22/1998EP0854472A1 Negative pressure air bearing slider
07/22/1998EP0485234B1 Information recording and reproducing device
07/21/1998US5784220 Magnetic disk apparatus, recording and accessing method for performing density recording
07/16/1998WO1998031015A1 Method and apparatus for writing a clock track on a storage medium
07/16/1998WO1998031009A2 Actuator bearing cartridge for top down assembly
07/15/1998EP0853317A1 Hard disk drive chip set partitioning
07/15/1998EP0853313A2 Optical disc system
07/15/1998EP0853311A1 Negative pressure air bearing slider
07/15/1998EP0852794A1 Information recording on a multitrack record carrier
07/15/1998CN1187897A Integrated head-electronics interconnection suspension for data recording disk drive
07/14/1998US5781516 Multiplane optical disc apparatus and access control method thereof
07/14/1998US5781381 Double-driving head actuator
07/14/1998US5781378 Flexure having displaced gimbal bond tongue with end terminated heads
07/14/1998US5781365 Sliding mode control of a magnetoresistive read head for magnetic recording
07/14/1998US5781364 Coarse and fine head positioning apparatus which uses a slipable shaft in a motor
07/14/1998US5781363 Servo-free velocity estimator for coil driven actuator arm in a data storage drive
07/14/1998US5781362 Servo control system for driving a voice coil motor with pulse width and gain control
07/14/1998US5781360 Method and apparatus for detecting data track misregistration
07/14/1998US5781299 Determining the complex refractive index phase offset in interferometric flying height testing
07/09/1998WO1998029870A1 Servo-writer for disk drive
07/08/1998EP0852379A2 Method of changing rotational rate of storage medium from initial rate to desired rate
07/08/1998CN1187007A Disk player with chuck holder capable of pivoting upward and downward
07/07/1998US5777978 Disk unit and process for assembling transmission mechanism used for driving head carriage
07/07/1998US5777963 Device for opening and closing a tracking servo loop of an optical disc reproduction device in accordance with the value of an on-track signal
07/07/1998US5777826 Load beam for supporting a transducer head in a disk drive
07/07/1998US5777816 For the storage of computer files
07/07/1998US5777815 Disk drive with shock detection based on thermoresistive signal from magnetoresistive head
07/02/1998DE19758250A1 Disk player for CD-ROM
07/02/1998DE19755371A1 Access performance improvement method for hard disk drive
07/02/1998DE19752631A1 Frictional error recognition device for hard disk drive
07/01/1998EP0851408A2 Magnetic head assembly, magnetic disk drive having the same and fabrication thereof
07/01/1998CN1186296A Magnetic head assembly, magnetic disk drive having same and fabrication thereof
06/1998
06/30/1998US5774436 Method of transmitting identification data for servo control in a disc player
06/30/1998US5774313 Magnetic disk which reduces deterioration in regenerated signals due to optical servo grooves
06/30/1998US5774304 Disc head slider having center rail with asymmetric edge steps
06/30/1998US5774299 Adaptive calibration of read/write elements in a disc drive
06/30/1998US5774298 Asynchronous digital PES demodulation disk drive servo control system
06/30/1998US5774297 Dynamic compensation of servo burst measurement offsets in a disc drive
06/30/1998US5774295 Servo track writing technique
06/30/1998US5774294 Servo track writer with tuned damper
06/30/1998US5774293 Magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus with automatic control of separation between the magnetic head and the record carrier surface
06/30/1998US5773948 Servo control gain correction method of disk recording system
06/30/1998US5771570 Method of manufacturing a slider/suspension having an improved crown sensitivity
06/30/1998US5771569 Manufacturing method for magnetic head suspension
06/30/1998US5771568 Method for manufacturing a head suspension having electrical trace interconnects with reduced capacitance
06/25/1998WO1998027653A1 Data and servo sampling in synchronous data detection channel
06/25/1998WO1998027547A1 Bimorph piezoelectric microactuator head and flexure assembly
06/25/1998WO1998027546A1 E-block head stack microactuator assembly
06/24/1998EP0849735A1 Combined longitudinal and transversal tracking
06/23/1998US5771394 Apparatus having signal processors for providing respective signals to master processor to notify that newly written data can be obtained from one or more memories
06/23/1998US5771393 Servo loop control apparatus having master processor to control the apparatus and second processor dedicated to specific preprogrammed servo loop control tasks
06/23/1998US5771329 Recording mode control method for combined video appliances
06/23/1998US5771136 Suspension assembly for mounting a head slider having a flexure with a shock limiter
06/23/1998US5771135 For use with a data transducer
06/23/1998US5771134 Floating type of magnetic head used in a magnetic recording apparatus and method for producing the same
06/23/1998US5771133 Floating magnetic head
06/23/1998US5771130 For use in positioning a transducer located on a hard drive arm
06/23/1998US5769912 System and method of vapor recovery in industrial washing equipment
06/18/1998WO1998026410A1 System for recording and/or reproducing information, medium for use in the system, and magnetic write head and arrangement for formatting the medium
06/17/1998EP0848377A1 Servo pattern writing method for magnetic disk drives, and magnetic disk drive adopting the method
06/17/1998EP0848376A2 Microstep driving of an optical head after a track jump
06/17/1998EP0847578A1 Disk drive
06/17/1998EP0824752A4 Head park mechanism in a data storage device for preventing accidental damage
06/17/1998CN1185005A Servo Pattern writing method for magnetic disk drives, and magnetic disk drive adopting the method
06/17/1998CN1184998A Magnetic head, magnetic recording and regeneration device contg. same and method for mfg. said magentic head
06/17/1998CN1038793C Audio record carrier and player for playing said record carrier
06/16/1998US5768248 Pickup position and tilt adjusting apparatus of a disk player
06/16/1998US5768226 Information recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus in which seek of a recording and/or reproducing head is corrected on the basis of detected moving velocity
06/16/1998US5768064 Actuator arm assembly having a removable actuator arm
06/16/1998US5768063 Rotary actuator in disk drive
06/16/1998US5768062 Disk drive having rigid actuator arm structures
06/16/1998US5768060 Low pofile radially and axially preloaded ball bearing for actuator pivot
06/16/1998US5768059 Head load/unload and cleaning in a data storage device
06/16/1998US5768058 Crash stop airlock mechanism
06/16/1998US5768057 Air vane latch incorporating top cover profiling
06/16/1998US5768056 Oleophobic and hydrophobic fluoro acrylate polymer barrier film
06/16/1998US5768055 Magnetic recording head having a carbon overcoat array on slider air bearings surfaces
06/16/1998US5768054 Tribo-attractive contact data storage system
06/16/1998US5768053 Flying magnetic head slider
06/16/1998US5768050 Hard disk drive using a rotary actuator and having an isolated voice coil motor
06/16/1998US5768045 Hardware velocity limit control system
06/16/1998US5768044 Zoned recording embedded servo disk drive having no data identification fields and reduced rotational latency
06/11/1998WO1998025264A1 Leading edge slider microactuator
06/10/1998EP0847044A1 Altitude insensitive air bearing slider
06/10/1998EP0847043A1 Damping material and head suspension with use thereof
06/10/1998EP0846323A1 Velocity control for a disk drive actuator