Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
04/1997
04/09/1997EP0766883A1 Actuator retraction circuit
04/09/1997CN1147130A Disc drive unit
04/08/1997US5619390 Magnetic disk apparatus with offset head assemblies
04/08/1997US5619387 Disk storage device with spiral data track and incremental error offsets in angularly spaced imbedded concentric servo patterns
04/08/1997US5619331 For monitoring an optical property of a recording head
04/03/1997WO1997012362A1 Method using matched filters for determining head positioner micro-jog in hard disk drive employing magneto-resistive heads
04/03/1997CA2205915A1 Method using matched filters for determining head positioner micro-jog in hard disk drive employing magneto-resistive heads
04/02/1997EP0765517A1 Aerodynamic actuator-filter latch for hard disk drive
04/01/1997US5617536 Method and apparatus for servo control with error detection of gray (pennington) code used for servo track ID
04/01/1997US5617404 Magneto-optic disk apparatus provided with a holder having a claw catching and bending an elastic member
04/01/1997US5617388 Disc recording/reproducing apparatus which uses stored eccentricity data to maintain the read/write head at a constant radial position during a stand-by mode
04/01/1997US5617382 Optical information accessing system capable of reliable jump-back control
04/01/1997US5617274 Low profile integral flexure for closely packed disks in a disk drive assembly
04/01/1997US5617273 Thin film slider with protruding R/W element formed by chemical-mechanical polishing
03/1997
03/26/1997EP0764942A1 Flexible circuit for magnetic head assembly having reduced stiffness area for minimizing the effects of roll and pitch
03/26/1997CN1146045A Disk drive with shock-resistant rotary actuator
03/25/1997US5615204 Structure for supporting optical pickup
03/25/1997US5615191 Disc device having eccentricity measurement and clock correction
03/25/1997US5615068 Head locating actuator having reduced susceptibility to dynamic reaction force effects, and a disk apparatus incorporating the same
03/25/1997US5615064 Pulsed current velocity controlled head load method and apparatus which uses the back EMF to control the generation of head actuator driving pulses
03/25/1997US5615058 Method and system for writing a servo-pattern on a storage medium
03/19/1997EP0763881A2 Magnetic micro-mover
03/19/1997EP0763237A1 Power saving method and apparatus for computer disk drives
03/19/1997EP0750780A4 Reading/writing information on a storage medium
03/19/1997CN1145517A Magnetic disc storage system
03/18/1997US5612945 Device for recording and/or reading information by means of a radiation beam, plate-shaped element suitable for use in the device, and disc player comprising the device
03/18/1997US5612840 Magnetic spring arm assembly including structure for preventing damage to a conductive layer resulting from bending
03/18/1997US5612835 Method and disk apparatus for automatically adjusting a head position
03/18/1997US5612833 Radial self-propagation pattern generation for disk file servowriting
03/18/1997US5612830 Method and apparatus for cleaning disks upon reaching a disk drive start-stop cycle threshold
03/13/1997DE19636118A1 Servo scanning clock generator especially for disc drive and recording device
03/12/1997EP0762393A1 Generating track count pulses
03/12/1997EP0761002A1 Servo-writing system for use in a data recording disk drive
03/12/1997EP0760998A1 Magnetic head and systen for controlling the position of a magnetic head
03/12/1997CN1144960A Method and apparatus for pamp load and unload
03/11/1997US5610899 Optical head moving section of optical disk drive
03/11/1997US5610885 Linear drive mechanism for use in an optical disk device
03/11/1997US5610785 Head suspension assembly and its manufacturing method
03/11/1997US5610782 Floppy disk drive device
03/11/1997US5610780 Floppy disk unit
03/11/1997US5610777 Method and apparatus for writing servo tracks of a magnetic disk unit which uses a probe to control the positioning of the head
03/06/1997WO1997008697A1 Velocity control for a disk drive actuator
03/06/1997WO1997008694A1 Device for reading an information carrier, including discriminating means for determining a type of information carrier
03/06/1997WO1997008688A1 Disk drive
03/06/1997DE19634433A1 Hard disc drive for computer system
03/06/1997CA2230153A1 Velocity control for a disk drive actuator
03/05/1997EP0760509A1 Disk apparatus and disk access method
03/05/1997CN1144374A Magnetic disk unit with impact force applying mechanism
03/05/1997CN1034197C Zoned record carrier
03/04/1997US5608706 Front loading disc player
03/04/1997US5608592 Head actuator
03/04/1997US5608591 Integrated head-electronics interconnection suspension for a data recording disk drive
03/04/1997US5608590 Head suspension assembly
03/04/1997US5608588 Method for controlling digital closed servo loop system and disk storage apparatus using the system
02/1997
02/27/1997WO1997007507A1 Magnetic latch for a movable ramp and associated servo control for head loading
02/27/1997WO1997007502A1 Suspension having reduced torsional mode gain and sensitivity
02/27/1997DE19632373A1 Head management method especially for fixed or removable disc medium
02/26/1997EP0759616A1 Metal-resin composite plate, rocking actuator with composite plate, and method for production thereof
02/26/1997EP0759613A1 Recording/reproduction apparatus
02/26/1997EP0759607A1 Floating head slider, floating head apparatus and disk driving apparatus
02/26/1997EP0707755A4 Swing-type actuator
02/26/1997CN1144009A Loading apparatus of memory medium and recording and/or reproduction apparatus
02/26/1997CN1143810A Head drum assembly for use in video cassette recorder
02/25/1997US5606477 Viscoelastically damped slider suspension system
02/25/1997US5606476 Altitude insensitive air bearing slider
02/25/1997US5606474 High density disk drive with accelerated disk access
02/25/1997US5606469 Method for correcting offset in a magnetic disk including apparent offtrack cancellation
02/25/1997US5606468 Plural diverse processors for control of a disk apparatus
02/25/1997US5606206 Device for detecting the position of an optical or magnetic head used on linear motors
02/20/1997WO1997006528A1 Method and apparatus for launching and retracting read-write heads from the medium of a disk drive
02/19/1997CN1143248A Magnetic head sliding device for disc recording/regenerating equipment
02/19/1997CN1143246A Magnetic disc parts
02/19/1997CN1143243A Magnetic disc regenerating device
02/19/1997CN1143242A movement limiter in DASD for preventing magnetic disc data zone and main shaft bearing damage
02/19/1997CN1143225A Recording card and card reading machine
02/18/1997US5604722 Access control method and device of disk unit
02/18/1997US5604720 Method and apparatus for accessing a target track on optical medium
02/18/1997US5604649 Disk drive system having a novel head gimbal assembly with a single offset mounting plate on each actuator arm
02/18/1997US5604604 Multiple head signal distribution system
02/13/1997WO1997005604A1 Improved chatter reduction in sliding mode control of a disk drive actuator
02/12/1997CN1142662A Apparatus and method for suppression of electromagnetic interference
02/11/1997US5602818 Lock mechanism for a floating unit in a disc player
02/11/1997US5602701 Head actuator for magnetic disk drive unit
02/11/1997US5602700 Aerodynamic actuator-filter latch for hard disk drive
02/11/1997US5602699 Gimbal assembly of a magnetic head suspension
02/11/1997US5602698 Apparatus for mounting a magnetic head in an actuator arm assembly
02/11/1997US5602691 Magnetic disk drive apparatus using contact start/stop mode and head load/unload mode
02/11/1997US5602689 Digital servo control system for use in disk drives, including sample integrity tester for reducing effects of spurious sampled position values
02/06/1997WO1997004446A2 Sliding mode control of a magnetoresistive read head for magnetic recording
02/05/1997CN1142101A Magnetic disc
02/04/1997US5600623 Disc device having a plurality of heads each movable within a limited distance
02/04/1997US5600615 Device and method for automatically controlling a servo loop gain
02/04/1997US5600516 Deflectable crash stop in actuator arm assembly overmold
02/04/1997US5600510 Disk apparatus with shielding member in a head moving range
02/04/1997US5600506 Apparatus and method for determining the position of a transducer relative to a disk surface in a disk drive system
02/04/1997US5600219 Sensorless closed-loop actuator unlatch
02/04/1997US5600217 CMOS disk drive motor control circuit having back-EMF regulator circuitry
01/1997
01/30/1997DE19615964A1 Geschwindigkeits/Positions-Schätzvorrichtung für Magnetköpfe in Magnetplattenlaufwerken Speed ​​/ position estimation means for magnetic heads in magnetic disk drives
01/28/1997US5598390 Dual more recording and reproducing apparatus having two recording regions using differing reproduction principles
01/28/1997US5598384 Feed search system for optical disk recording device