Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
03/1993
03/30/1993US5198942 Disc drive control device with accessing and power control
03/25/1993CA2078803A1 Positioning controller
03/24/1993EP0533178A2 Hard disc drive
03/24/1993EP0532609A1 Two and one half inch diameter multiple disk drive
03/18/1993WO1993005508A1 Slider and disk storage apparatus with the slider
03/18/1993WO1993005504A1 1.8' winchester drive card
03/16/1993US5195067 Track access control system for a disk storage system
03/16/1993US5194798 Servo circuit control method and system
03/16/1993US5194788 Servo circuit
03/13/1993CA2074018A1 Slider and disk storage apparatus with the slider
03/10/1993EP0530698A1 Head positioning device
03/09/1993US5193037 Compact disk drive for use with laptop computer
03/09/1993US5193036 Transducer head skew arrangement for disk drive system
03/04/1993WO1993004469A1 Magnetic head drive device
03/04/1993DE4128245A1 Read-write system for data discs using fixed heads - assigns microelements to specific radial locations relating to tracks and integrated and non-rotating disc
03/03/1993EP0530040A2 Optomagnetic disc apparatus with floating type magnetic head
03/03/1993EP0529987A1 Rotary positioning apparatus
03/03/1993EP0529589A2 Translating apparatus for an optical pickup device
03/03/1993CN1020007C The method and circuit compensating failure adjust voltage in circuit of focus and/or tracing
03/02/1993US5191568 Disc drive apparatus with tracking control based on multiple reference tracks and with automatic seek time adjustment
03/02/1993US5191567 Method for playback of a portion of a recorded disk played before interruption of playback
03/02/1993US5191566 Velocity detection method and apparatus therefor
03/02/1993US5191198 Transducing apparatus
02/1993
02/24/1993EP0494869A4 Disk drive system using multiple embedded quadrature servo fields
02/23/1993US5189652 Multi-disc recording and reproducing apparatus having detachable optical head units
02/23/1993US5189578 Disk system with sub-actuators for fine head displacement
02/23/1993US5189576 Rotary inertial latch for disk drive actuator
02/23/1993US5189575 Read/write head retract mechanism
02/23/1993US5189574 Flexible information storing disk apparatus having laminar air flow
02/23/1993US5189571 Adaptive settle time minimization for a hard disk drive
02/23/1993US5189569 Head drive mechanism with pivoting mechanism
02/16/1993US5187627 Magnetic latch and crash stop
02/16/1993US5187625 Laminated load beam
02/16/1993CA1313710C Method of recording position information of last track recorded with data in directory area
02/09/1993US5184393 Method of manufacturing flying magnetic head
02/04/1993WO1993002451A1 Mechanism for finely moving head
02/03/1993EP0526250A2 Method of apparatus for playing back recordable optical disc
02/03/1993EP0526229A2 Hard disc drive with improved servo system
02/03/1993EP0526185A2 Information recording/reproducing method
02/03/1993EP0525775A2 Optical recording medium driving apparatus
02/02/1993US5184339 Information recording-reproducing head driving circuit
02/02/1993US5184263 Loading method and drive unit for a floating magnetic head for loading the magnetic head while preventing contact between the magnetic head and a magnetic disk
01/1993
01/27/1993EP0524629A1 Magnetic head slider support device
01/27/1993CN1068440A Transducer carrier for disk file with liquid film head-disk interface
01/26/1993US5182724 Information processing method and information processing device
01/26/1993US5182685 Stepper motor torque variance compensation using varied applied voltage
01/26/1993US5182684 Estimator positioning system and method
01/26/1993CA1313261C Low profile head-load beam slider arm for disk drive
01/21/1993WO1993001596A1 Process for shortening the access time (track control circuit)
01/21/1993WO1993001593A1 Audio record carrier and players for playing said record carrier
01/20/1993EP0523843A2 Disk file with liquid film head-disk interface
01/20/1993CN1068210A Disk file with liquid film head-disk interface technical field
01/13/1993EP0522717A2 Pivot mechanism for a rotary actuator
01/13/1993EP0522714A2 Transducer assembly with disk file with liquid film transducer disk interface
01/13/1993EP0522597A2 Methods of monitoring operating temperatures in disc drives to prevent thermal mistracking
01/13/1993EP0522499A2 Driving apparatus for optical recording medium with accurate optical head position detection
01/12/1993US5179485 Optical encoder for disc apparatus
01/12/1993US5179482 Disk drive with optical encoder having integral scale member
01/12/1993US5179480 Still image reproducing system having means for causing a movement of the reproducing head
01/07/1993WO1993000677A1 Method and apparatus for detecting data track misregistration
01/07/1993DE4121852A1 Bearing support for rotary positioning unit of disc memory - has support bushes mounted on central spindle with ball bearings at either end and with outer race elements subjected to axial spring loading
01/06/1993CN1067760A Multi-track servo recording head, resultant media containing prerecorded servo track, and servo controlled head positioning system
01/05/1993US5177654 Air bearing manganese-zinc ferrite portion and nonmagnetic ceramic body; durability, friction resistance
01/05/1993US5177652 Dual-actuator transducer position control apparatus for seeking and following track on rotary disk
01/05/1993US5177648 Track position detecting mechanism
01/05/1993US5177645 Method and apparatus for generating, storing, reproducing, and displaying image information
01/05/1993US5177384 Stepping motor and carriage transport
01/03/1993CA2067600A1 Disk file with liquid film head-disk interface
12/1992
12/30/1992EP0520734A2 Read error compensations in data storage systems
12/29/1992US5175724 Capacitance disc information retrieval system
12/29/1992US5175723 Direct drive mechanism for data pickup carriage with no direct attachment between motor and frame
12/29/1992US5175716 Method for searching a track at high speed in an optical recording/reproducing apparatus
12/29/1992US5175658 Thin film magnetic head having a protective coating and method for making same
12/29/1992US5175657 Disc drive with magnetic coupling to a head actuator in a removable disc cartridge and with spindle motor rotor configured into the removable disc cartridge
12/29/1992US5175482 Stepping motor control circuit
12/23/1992EP0519461A2 Servo circuit for an optical pick-up of disc playing apparatus
12/22/1992US5173647 Servo positioning circuit
12/22/1992CA1311838C Magnetic head air bearing slider
12/16/1992EP0518566A1 Air bearing slider with relieved trailing edge
12/16/1992EP0254748B1 Device for detecting defect of disc-like recording media
12/16/1992CN1067131A Devicefor inscribing and /or reading rotating information carrier
12/15/1992US5172370 Disk reproducing apparatus equipped with a pickup device capable of reading both sides of a disk
12/15/1992US5172367 Optical pickup guide rail positioning mechanism
12/15/1992US5172353 Track seeking control apparatus for use in data recording/reproduction systems having data tracks thereon
12/15/1992US5172286 Load beam interlocking boss
12/10/1992WO1992022056A1 Low profile head disk assembly
12/10/1992CA2110172A1 Low profile head disk assembly
12/09/1992EP0517531A2 Multi-track servo recording head, resultant media containing pre-recorded servo track, and servo controlled head positioning system
12/09/1992EP0517478A2 Servo data recovery circuit for disk drive having digital embedded sector servo
12/09/1992EP0516854A1 Device for controlling positioning of head of disc drive and method of controlling the same
12/09/1992CN1066931A Method for shortening access time
12/08/1992US5170387 Apparatus for reading an information pattern from a record carrier and signal-processing circuit for use in such apparatus
12/08/1992US5170300 Magnetic parking device for disk drive
12/08/1992US5170299 Edge servo for disk drive head positioner
12/03/1992DE4205188A1 Feed mechanism for optical disc pick=up - has module moving on guides around curved gear tooth rack unit to access both sides of disc
12/02/1992EP0515438A1 Process for converting an analog voltage to a digital value.
12/01/1992US5168483 Magnetic head position control apparatus including drive means responsive to a summed signal from a capacitance detection electrode and a disk size detector means
12/01/1992US5168413 Transducer head flying height monitoring methods and apparatus for disk drive system
12/01/1992US5168398 Head positioning control apparatus for a data storage device
12/01/1992CA1311045C Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing with a plurality of rotaryheads