Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
11/1997
11/11/1997US5687042 Data storage device
11/11/1997US5687038 Servo method and device for controlling head position for a hard disk drive
11/11/1997US5685064 Process of manufacturing a magnetic head slider assembly
11/07/1997CA2204567A1 Counter blanced rotary arilock actuator latch assembly for disk drive
11/06/1997WO1997041558A1 Pwm/linear driver for disk drive voice coil actuator
11/06/1997WO1997041555A1 Altitude insensitive negative pressure slider for a disk drive
11/06/1997DE19716662A1 Magnetic head guide elements for magnetic disc system
11/05/1997EP0804846A1 Synchronous detection of wide bi-phase coded servo information for disk drive
11/05/1997EP0804794A2 Non-destructive in-situ landing velocity determination of magnetic rigid disk drives
11/05/1997EP0804793A2 Fm detection of slider-disk interface
11/05/1997EP0804792A1 Apparatus for recording an information signal on a record carrier provided with tracking signals and a record carrier having such information signals
11/05/1997EP0804790A1 Actuator for data storage device
11/05/1997EP0772871A4 Transducer/flexure/conductor structure for electromagnetic read/write system
11/05/1997CN1164104A Magnetic disk drive
11/04/1997US5684767 Track jump control circuit of optical disk apparatus properly controlling timing of accelerating pulses and decelerating pulses, and performing stable track jump
11/04/1997US5684661 Magnetic head assembly and method for reading and/or writing data onto a thin magnetic layer placed on a photographic element
11/04/1997US5684657 Linear guide arrangement, device comprising a linear guide arrangement and a head for reading and/or writing information from/on a medium, and information reproducing and/or recording apparatus comprising a linear guide arrangement
11/04/1997US5684653 Method and apparatus for minimizing seek time in a disk drive by increasing power amplifier power based on power amplifier voltage head room
11/04/1997US5684651 Magnetic disk system having servo signal detecting function depending on recording density of servo data
11/04/1997US5684650 Digital servo control system for use in disk drives
10/1997
10/30/1997DE19715678A1 Head positioning error compensation in hard disk drive
10/29/1997EP0803864A2 Optical storage apparatus
10/29/1997EP0803158A1 Wide biphase digital servo information, detection, and estimation for disk drive using viterbi detection
10/29/1997EP0803119A1 Disk drive stiction release system
10/29/1997EP0803118A1 Pressure differential latch for a disk drive
10/29/1997EP0802880A1 Linear guide arrangement, device comprising a linear guide arrangement and a head for reading and/or writing information from/on a medium, and information reproducing and/or recording apparatus comprising a linear guide arrangement
10/29/1997CN1163450A Optical storing device
10/28/1997US5682362 Track accessing method and apparatus using coarse and fine driving control in collaborating of fashion
10/28/1997US5682282 Head feeding device including a screw shaft provided with a pair of grooves with one groove being provided with a lubricant
10/28/1997US5682281 Magnetic disk driver capable of preventing occurrence of a data error resulting from static electricity
10/28/1997US5682280 Sliding-type magnetic head for magnetooptical recording
10/28/1997US5682274 Method and apparatus for positioning transducers to correct for read and write element misregistration offsets which vary dependent on rotary actuator angular position across a disk medium
10/28/1997US5682159 Method and apparatus for reducing phase lag resulting from digital to analog conversion
10/28/1997CA2081511C Size-independent, rigid-disk, magnetic, digital-information storage system with localized read/write enhancements
10/23/1997WO1997039450A1 Method and apparatus for non-contact servo writing
10/23/1997WO1997039447A1 A flying head positioner with fine positioning
10/23/1997WO1997039446A1 Optical disk drive with a plurality of optical heads of different types
10/23/1997WO1997039445A1 Method and apparatus for detecting the minimum glide height of a flying head and for focusing a lens carried on a flying head
10/23/1997WO1997039441A1 Flying head with adjustable actuator load
10/22/1997EP0802526A2 Storage device
10/22/1997EP0789903A4 Low flying magnetic heads for stabilizing flexible media
10/22/1997CN1162815A Method for incorporating disk media into magnetic disk drive
10/21/1997US5680285 Magnetic disk having improved surface configuration and magnetic disk unit including same
10/21/1997US5680278 Apparatus for combining linear and rotational motion of an azimuth read/write head
10/21/1997US5680275 Adjustable solder bump spacer for slider-suspension attachment
10/21/1997US5680272 Digital servo control system for use in disk drives
10/21/1997US5680271 Control device of the disk apparatus for positioning a head on a disk
10/21/1997US5680270 Floppy disk apparatus which adjusts gain conforming to operation of carriage
10/21/1997US5680269 Method and apparatus for controlling media linear speed in a helical scan recorder by reading servo information just after writing the servo information
10/21/1997US5680265 Circuit for detecting contact of MR head with disk surface
10/14/1997US5677904 Disc player
10/14/1997US5677899 Method for moving carriage assembly from initial position to target position relative to storage medium
10/14/1997US5677814 Head feeding mechanism
10/14/1997US5677809 Digital servo control system for use in disk drives, having state space observer including integral compensator
10/14/1997US5677808 System and method for controlling a seek operation in a disk drive
10/14/1997US5677805 Apparatus for determining the dynamic position and orientation of a transducing head relative to a storage medium
10/14/1997US5677803 Apparatus for recording data signals and a signal having a repetitive frequency to a recording medium and/or for reproducing the data signals therefrom
10/14/1997US5677609 Intelligent servomechanism controller
10/14/1997US5676304 Method of bonding a contact-type thin film magnetic head element to a supporting beam
10/08/1997EP0800128A2 Motor control apparatus, motor control method, disk apparatus and disk access method
10/08/1997EP0799479A1 Disk storage device
10/08/1997EP0799478A1 A system and method for controlling a seek operation in a disk drive
10/08/1997EP0799477A1 Magnetic head sub-ambient air pressure slider for a disk drive device or the like
10/08/1997EP0799476A1 A partially etched protective overcoat for a disk drive slider
10/08/1997EP0799475A1 A method for determining an outer diameter rolloff in a process for making magnetic disks
10/07/1997US5675563 Track access method and apparatus therefor
10/07/1997US5675560 Information recording/reproducing apparatus with function of seeking light beam to target position, and method therefor
10/07/1997US5675558 Seeking control apparatus and method for disk drives, using slew-rate limit for control output
10/07/1997US5675462 Disk used for calibrating floating height of protrusion detection head, method of calibrating floating height of protrusion detection head using the disk and glide tester using the method
10/07/1997US5675458 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus with independently tiltable head drum and tape lead guide
10/07/1997US5675456 Acoustic vibration decoupler for a disk drive pivot bearing assembly
10/07/1997US5675455 Rotary actuator for disk drive
10/07/1997US5675454 Floating type magnetic head apparatus
10/07/1997US5675450 Digital servo control system for use in disk drives using driver saturation model
10/07/1997US5675446 Method of controlling magnetic disk unit based on version data
10/01/1997EP0798708A2 Disc drive unit
10/01/1997EP0798698A2 Apparatus for positioning magnetic head and method of the same
10/01/1997EP0798697A1 Improved actuator apparatus with plastic C-block
09/1997
09/30/1997US5673244 Disk loading and magnetic head lifting mechanism using a single power source for a minidisk player
09/30/1997US5673161 Low wear rate magnetic head slider with high recording density
09/30/1997US5673110 Multiplexed laser interferometer for non-dispersed spectrum detection in a dynamic flying height tester
09/30/1997US5672435 Hard disk drive components and methods of making same
09/25/1997WO1997035303A1 Adjustable solder bump spacer for slider-suspension attachment
09/25/1997WO1997035302A1 Planar head gimbal assembly for pico/nano slider
09/25/1997CA2198436A1 Actuator apparatus with plastic c-block
09/24/1997EP0797186A2 Magnetic disk device with dummy write function
09/24/1997CN1160266A Adjustable solder bump spacer for slider-suspension attachment
09/23/1997US5671197 Miniature magnetic disk device and voice coil actuator thereof
09/23/1997US5671104 System and method for locking a disk actuator in vertical and horizontal directions
09/23/1997US5671099 Magnetic recording apparatus with power conservation feature
09/23/1997US5671048 Method and apparatus for rotary load/unload slider positioning
09/17/1997EP0795864A2 Recording method and information medium for a plurality of longitudinal track bundles enabling tracking during recording and/or playback of track bundles
09/17/1997EP0795856A2 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus
09/17/1997EP0795172A1 Direct access storage device with magneto-resistive transducing head apparatus
09/17/1997EP0795171A1 Method using matched filters for determining head positioner micro-jog in hard disk drive employing magneto-resistive heads
09/17/1997CN1159862A Direct access stoarge device with magneto-resistive transducing head apparatus
09/17/1997CN1159645A Method and apparatus for manufacturing information storage devices
09/16/1997US5668790 Disk reproducing apparatus with plural disk trays
09/16/1997US5668683 Counter balanced rotary airlock actuator latch assembly for disk drive
09/16/1997US5668682 Head lift mechanism implemented in a removable magnetic disk drive