Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
08/1995
08/02/1995EP0665538A1 Negative pressure air bearing slider
08/02/1995EP0665537A1 Negative pressure air bearing slider
08/02/1995EP0665536A1 Negative pressure air bearing slider
08/02/1995EP0665535A2 Method and apparatus for controlling magnetic disk drive
08/01/1995US5438467 Negative pressure air bearing design
08/01/1995US5438465 Recording/reproducing apparatus for a disc
08/01/1995US5438273 System for testing the voice coil element of a disk drive rotary actuator
07/1995
07/31/1995EP0674797A4 Removable cartridge disk drive with a 1.8 inch form factor.
07/31/1995EP0672287A4 Voice coil motor control circuit and method.
07/26/1995EP0664506A2 System and method for user definition of data storage device physical format
07/26/1995EP0613579A4 Small size constant torque voice coil motor.
07/25/1995US5436877 Method for controlling the gain of a tracking servo circuit
07/25/1995US5436776 Disk system having a slider which is continuously heated for preventing organic material buildup
07/25/1995US5436773 Enhanced linearity range for magneto resistive transducer servo by changing the direction of the bias current
07/22/1995CA2138300A1 System and method for user definition of data storage device physical format
07/20/1995EP0704090A4 Passive non-contact magnetic latch
07/19/1995EP0614564A4 Microminiature hard disk drive.
07/19/1995EP0505363B1 Multiple actuator disk drive
07/18/1995US5434843 Pickup turnover apparatus of a disk player
07/18/1995US5434836 Optical disk, tracking error signal generating apparatus, and tracking control apparatus
07/18/1995US5434731 Process for making a one-piece flexure for small magnetic heads
07/18/1995US5434725 Magnetic disc driving device for controlling the position of a magnetic head relative to the disc
07/18/1995US5434724 Method and apparatus for the high speed driving of a stepper motor against seek error upon power restoration in a microcomputer system
07/12/1995EP0412993B1 Tape drive machines
07/12/1995CN1105144A Leaf spring lock for a carriage in a media player that is actuated by the carriage and position a cartridge
07/11/1995US5432772 Supporting mechanism for optical pickup
07/11/1995US5432764 Off-track detector for detecting off-track, and optical information recording/regenerating apparatus
07/11/1995US5432663 For a storage disk
07/11/1995US5432659 Magnetic disk unit having a plurality of magnetic heads
07/11/1995CA2013498C Speed detection apparatus, speed control motor, and track jump control circuit
06/1995
06/29/1995WO1995017646A1 Method and apparatus to calibrate intensity and determine fringe order for interferometric measurement of small spacings
06/29/1995DE4444783A1 Gray code decoder circuit for hard disc drive
06/28/1995EP0660324A2 Data recording disk drive
06/28/1995EP0660317A2 Magneto-optical recording-reproducing system
06/28/1995EP0660307A2 Sampled data channel servo detector using PRML techniques
06/28/1995EP0660306A1 Inner diameter disk drive head/slider load/unload device
06/28/1995EP0570410B1 Method of reading data off a rotating disk-shaped recording medium
06/28/1995EP0569397B1 Process for reducing access time
06/28/1995EP0432278B1 Seek control apparatus
06/28/1995CN1029184C Circuit for inserting and separating frequency folding information and method for generating thereof
06/27/1995US5428683 Method and apparatus for fingerprinting and authenticating magnetic media
06/27/1995US5428591 Track compensation apparatus of magnetooptical disk apparatus
06/27/1995US5428490 One-piece flexure having an etched load point button
06/27/1995US5428489 Magnet head support device for use in magnetic disk drive equipped with floating head slider
06/22/1995DE4441709A1 Magnetic disc drive with safety parking position for actuator
06/21/1995EP0658894A1 Disk drive and method for minimizing shock-induced damage
06/21/1995EP0658882A1 Disk device
06/21/1995CN1104022A Magnetic disk apparatus and method of production thereof
06/20/1995US5426625 Masking of tracking error signal abnormalities due to media defects
06/20/1995US5426562 Disk drive enclosed by shock absorbent jacket and mounted in electronic instrument
06/20/1995US5426549 Magnetic head positioning mechanism having electrical wiring plated thereupon
06/20/1995US5426543 Servo positioning system for magnetic recording media
06/20/1995CA1336016C Removal cartridge disc drive with radial arm voice coil actuator
06/14/1995EP0657879A2 Magnetooptic disk player
06/14/1995EP0657877A1 "Track seek method and device for use with an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus"
06/14/1995EP0446277B1 A magnetic recording head having i-bar core structure
06/14/1995DE4434928A1 Wandler-Positionssensor mit gespeicherter Position, Überweg und geringer mechanischer Spannung Transducer position sensor with stored position, crossing and low mechanical stress
06/13/1995US5424888 Speed independent, air bearing slider
06/13/1995US5424591 Voice coil motor
06/08/1995WO1995015552A1 Disk drive employing adaptive read/write channel for optimizing head-media-channel performance
06/07/1995EP0656619A2 Disk drive
06/07/1995EP0655960A1 Pneumatic hub locking device for etching optical servo tracks on magnetic disks
06/07/1995EP0645043A4 Apparatus for and method of verifying etching of optical servo information on magnetic media.
06/06/1995US5422867 Access control circuit for use in optical disk unit
06/06/1995US5422764 Electrical interconnect for a head/arm assembly of computer disk drives
06/06/1995CA2000313C Tracking servo apparatus for disc-shaped optical record medium
06/01/1995DE4442112A1 Digital servo control method for disc drive
06/01/1995DE4442104A1 Actuation unit for fixed disk drive with reduced moment of inertia
05/1995
05/31/1995EP0655736A2 Disk drive with acceleration rate sensing
05/31/1995EP0655735A1 Signal reproducing apparatus
05/31/1995CN1103194A Method and apparatus for rotary actuator arc compensation correction in a direct access storage device
05/30/1995US5420468 Shorted turn for moving coil motors
05/30/1995US5419033 Method of making load spring manufacturing assembly having an electric conductor carrying and positioning tail for carrying a conductor bonded to the surface of a load spring
05/24/1995EP0654296A1 Desulfurizing and denitrating tower
05/24/1995CN1102900A Thin film transducer with reduced flying height
05/24/1995CN1028574C Method and apparatus for positioning transducers
05/23/1995US5418773 Zoned record carrier
05/23/1995US5418667 Slider with transverse ridge sections supporting air-bearing pads and disk drive incorporating the slider
05/23/1995US5418665 Driving section of floppy disk drive
05/23/1995US5418657 Track address detecting means by HDD sector servo method
05/18/1995WO1995013615A1 Method and apparatus for controlling media linear speed in a helical scan recorder
05/18/1995WO1995013612A1 High temperature head slider geometry control for contact or near contact recording
05/18/1995WO1995013611A1 Disk drive architecture for automated assembly
05/18/1995WO1995013610A1 Stackable actuator assembly
05/17/1995EP0653752A2 Dual voltage servo system and method
05/16/1995US5416758 Optical recording/reproducing head access controlling apparatus for an optical type information recording/reproducing apparatus
05/16/1995US5416657 Seal for bearings in small angle oscillation applications
05/16/1995US5416656 Magnetic recording and reproducing head having a flat surface with round front ridge
05/16/1995US5416652 Apparatus for, and methods of, recording signals in tracks on a memory member without a reference index
05/16/1995CA2030872C Disk file or tape drive with high servo sample rate
05/10/1995EP0652552A1 Multipad flying slider for magnetic recording
05/09/1995US5414576 Space saving configuration of a printed cirucit board for a magnetic head on a flexure seat for the head
05/04/1995WO1995012196A1 Rotary inertial latch for disk drive actuator
05/04/1995DE4438606A1 Magnetic head mount
05/03/1995EP0651377A1 Position sensors for computer disk drives
05/03/1995EP0651376A1 Flying slider with composite solder pads and method of manufacture
05/02/1995US5412597 Slope detection method, and information detection/writing apparatus using the method
05/02/1995US5412522 Portable low profile information storage system
04/1995
04/26/1995EP0650164A2 Track jump control devices
04/26/1995EP0650160A1 Tracking traverse control circuit for disk player