Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
04/1994
04/13/1994EP0592192A2 Magneto-optical recording and reproduction
04/13/1994EP0591954A2 Magnetic head suspension assembly fabricated with integral load beam and flexure
04/12/1994US5303223 Head carriage apparatus moved by a lead-screw shaft including resilient means for pressing the lead-screw shaft in a slanting direction toward the head carriage
04/12/1994US5303105 Shape memory alloy for centering a transducer carried by a slider in a support arm over a track on a magnetic disk
04/12/1994US5303104 Disk drive apparatus having carriage driving mechanism
04/12/1994US5303103 Head drive mechanism with resilient signal transmitting member
04/12/1994US5303101 Active magnetic latch for disk drive and method
04/12/1994US5303100 Magnetic disk device with floating-type magnetic head
04/12/1994US5303099 Hard disk driver including a flying head slider
04/12/1994US5303096 Merging of heads into disk drives using low melting wax
04/12/1994US5302560 Process for the production of magnetic head sliders
04/12/1994CA2021359C Magnetic head suspension assembly in a disk drive
04/12/1994CA1328505C Removable cartridge disc drive with radial arm voice coil actuator
04/06/1994EP0590676A2 Magnetic disc unit
04/06/1994EP0590226A1 Magnetic tape storage unit with improved ability to read data by using a set of multiple read elements
04/05/1994US5301173 Optical recording apparatus with two tracking error signals
04/05/1994US5301072 Sample data position error signal detection for digital sector servo
03/1994
03/30/1994EP0589726A2 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus
03/30/1994EP0589270A1 Magnetic head suspension apparatus
03/30/1994CN1084617A Air bearing magnetic head slider
03/29/1994US5299183 Optical data record/reproduction apparatus with tubular coil body
03/29/1994US5299083 Read/write head positioning mechanism for flexible disk drive device
03/29/1994US5299082 Actuator assembly with compensated outer arms
03/29/1994US5299081 Magnetic head suspension assembly
03/29/1994US5299080 Floating head slider with improved suspension for use in magnetic/optical disk recording apparatuses
03/29/1994US5299079 Flying head slider with control grooves to establish a uniform flying height
03/29/1994US5299075 Apparatus and method for shock attenuation in a disk recording and/or reproduction system using variable gain acceleration sensor
03/29/1994US5298730 Optical card apparatus in which retrial of locating operation of optical card is retried on another track at the time of loading the same
03/29/1994US5297330 Forming magenetic gap in core chip for reading and writing information
03/24/1994DE4331732A1 Access speed control circuit for optical disc systems - adds output of square wave oscillator to speed difference signal to control speed of head carriage moving coil motor.
03/23/1994EP0587905A1 Data recording medium and data recording apparatus
03/22/1994US5297127 Optical device
03/22/1994US5297024 Voice coil driver with variable gain in seek and track-follow modes
03/22/1994US5296986 Rotary intertial latch for disk drive actuator to protect against rotational shock force
03/22/1994US5296985 Magnetic disk unit using negative pressure to counterbalance having head lifting mechanism
03/22/1994US5296983 Slider spring under "tension-compression"
03/17/1994WO1994006119A1 Magnetic head guidance and calibration system and method description
03/16/1994EP0587458A2 Double-sided disk player
03/16/1994EP0587350A2 Optical disc apparatus and miserasing preventing circuit and method
03/16/1994EP0586597A1 Low profile head disk assembly
03/15/1994US5295031 Rotary positioning apparatus
03/15/1994US5295026 Magnetic disk drive
03/15/1994CA2100019A1 Magnetic head suspension apparatus
03/15/1994CA2091592A1 Disk recording/reporduction device and a method of operation thereof
03/10/1994DE4330614A1 Head positioner control system for magnetic and magneto=optical disk storage device drives - contains head drive controller with periodic positioning error compensation system contg. repetitive controllers
03/08/1994US5293282 Multiple actuator disk drive
03/02/1994EP0584999A1 Disc drive apparatus
03/02/1994EP0584983A1 Unitary magnetic transducer and suspension structure
03/02/1994CN1083252A Zoned record carrier
03/02/1994CN1023922C Sectored servo independent of data architecture
03/01/1994US5291471 Recording/reproducing system using phase encoding of optical storage medium
03/01/1994US5291464 Speed and position control apparatus for positioning a movable object
03/01/1994US5291361 Disk drive with low elevated head unloading mechanism
03/01/1994US5291360 Head suspension assembly for a disk drive
03/01/1994US5291359 Head suspension assembly including a flexure having rails arranged for interfacing with a head ramp
03/01/1994US5291348 High density servo tracking
02/1994
02/23/1994EP0583989A2 Slider for a magnetic head
02/23/1994EP0583985A2 Method of making magnetic recording head slider and the resulting slider
02/23/1994EP0583921A1 Unitary magnetic transducer and suspension structure for longitudinal operation
02/23/1994EP0583797A1 Suspension arm mounting assembly
02/23/1994EP0345352B1 Track-jump device for a disc device
02/22/1994US5289450 Method of and apparatus for playing back recordable optical disc
02/22/1994US5289408 Memory apparatus using tunnel current techniques
02/22/1994US5289325 Rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus
02/22/1994US5289088 DC linear motor
02/16/1994EP0582720A1 Disk reproducing apparatus
02/16/1994EP0582673A1 Head suspension assembly
02/16/1994CN1082236A Predictive read-write inhibit decision using fuzzylogic
02/16/1994CN1082233A Recording and reproduction of items of information using rom-ram storage media
02/15/1994US5287235 Slider air bearing surface with angled rail configuration
02/15/1994US5287234 Speed gain control based upon access time for each cylinder
02/15/1994US5287046 Method and system for actuator control for direct access storage devices
02/09/1994EP0582463A1 Voice coil motor and disc drive
02/09/1994EP0582284A1 Magnetic head suspension assembly
02/08/1994US5285435 Controlling positioning of recording/reproducing head by combining a position differentiation and a drive current integration
02/08/1994US5285432 Track jump control circuit
02/08/1994US5285431 Information storage device with head position detection outside a user utilizable region and an optical disk drive device having target velocity-controlled head actuation
02/08/1994US5285337 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having support struts
02/08/1994US5285327 Apparatus for controlling reading and writing in a disk drive
02/02/1994EP0581364A1 Seal for bearings in small angle oscillation applications
02/01/1994US5283776 Track-counting method for use in optical disk apparatus
02/01/1994US5283773 Steering laser beam while etching optical servo tracks for magnetic disks
02/01/1994US5283705 Head retracting mechanism for a magnetic disk drive
02/01/1994US5283704 Rotary actuator for disk drive assemblies
02/01/1994US5283702 Power saving system for rotating disk data storage apparatus
01/1994
01/31/1994CA2091911A1 Seal for bearings in small angle oscillation applications
01/27/1994DE4224043A1 Recording and playback system for digital disc systems - has write protected servo information recorded on track sections to provide accurate positioning of heads
01/25/1994US5282190 Data storage disk drive with a piezoelectric member and a resilient member between a head and a disk
01/25/1994US5282103 Magnetic head suspension assembly fabricated with integral load beam and flexure
01/24/1994CA2074496A1 Hard drive head array
01/19/1994CN1081000A Method for controlling digital closed servo loop system, digital closed servo loop system, and disk storage apparatus using the system
01/18/1994US5280340 Method and apparatus to calibrate intensity and determine fringe order for interferometric measurement of small spacings
01/18/1994US5279775 Acousto-optical intensity control of laser beam during etching of optical servo information of magnetic media
01/12/1994EP0578598A2 Hybrid servo pattern and demodulation system for direct access storage device actuator positioning
01/12/1994EP0578228A2 Microactuator
01/12/1994CN1023518C System and method for data recovery in multiple head assembly storage device
01/11/1994US5278820 Apparatus and method for a radial access mechanism for a disk player/recorder
01/11/1994US5278819 Disk storage device having a carriage locking mechanism
01/11/1994US5278814 Apparatus for recording and reproducing information on and from an optical disk
01/11/1994US5278714 Adjustable structure for attaching a rotary head to a rotary drum of a video cassette recorder