Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
02/2010
02/09/2010US7660075 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a pivot ball in a latch post opening and between a VCM top plate and the latch
02/09/2010US7660068 Method and system for pre-contact detection and active damping of air bearing vibrations in a hard disk drive
02/09/2010US7660067 Disk drive initializing a coil temperature estimation algorithm using a resistance of the coil estimated during a load operation
02/09/2010US7660066 Storage device, head returning method, and head returning apparatus
02/09/2010US7660065 Disk positioning information writing method and apparatus, information recording/reproduction apparatus and recording medium
02/09/2010US7660060 Dynamically controlling a temperature profile in a disk drive for a temperature-dependent reliability study
02/04/2010WO2010014078A1 Systems and methods for variable compensated fly height measurement
02/04/2010US20100027157 Magnetic storage apparatus, and controlling method thereof
02/04/2010US20100027156 Recording medium driving device
02/04/2010US20100027155 Magnetic disk apparatus and method for controlling projecting amount of magnetic head
02/04/2010US20100027154 Flying height control device for magnetic head and magnetic disk device
02/04/2010US20100027153 Thin film planar arbitrary gap pattern magnetic head
02/04/2010US20100027152 System, method and apparatus for direct head-disk clearance measurement by slider vibration and fly height calibration
02/04/2010US20100027150 Magnetic storage apparatus and method for testing thereof
02/02/2010US7656755 Method and apparatus for recording digital audio to compact disc from a mass storage device
02/02/2010US7656754 Optical disk player
02/02/2010US7656619 Magnetic head sliders for disk drives having a heating element and pedestal in thick undercoat layer
02/02/2010US7656617 Slider and manufacturing method thereof, head gimbal assembly, disk drive with same
02/02/2010US7656616 Magnetic head device having slider and magnetic function unit
02/02/2010US7656604 Disk drive demodulating a spiral track by finding a maximum correlation between a spiral track crossing signal and a time-shifted nominal spiral track crossing signal
02/02/2010US7656603 Pre-programming of a preamplifier in a disk drive to improve servo-writing characteristics
01/2010
01/28/2010WO2010010781A1 Drop detection device, magnetic disc device, and mobile electronic device
01/28/2010US20100020446 High bandwidth and mechanical strength between a disk drive flexible circuit and a read write head suspension
01/28/2010US20100020434 Method for production of magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproduction device
01/28/2010US20100020433 Magnetic disk apparatus and magnetic disk access control method
01/26/2010US7652850 Rotating disk type storage unit with reduced vibration
01/26/2010US7652849 Flexible cable positioning structure and magnetic disk drive
01/26/2010US7652847 Minimized skew angle slider
01/26/2010US7652846 Magnetic head slider with optimized flying attitude
01/26/2010US7652841 Servo controlling method, recording/reproducing apparatus, magnetic tape, and magnetic tape cartridge
01/26/2010US7652840 Head damage detection based on actuation efficiency measurements
01/26/2010US7652839 Magnetic recording disk with identical servo patterns formed on each disk surface by single master template and disk drive using the disk
01/21/2010US20100014392 Disk changer device and disk holding method
01/21/2010US20100014187 Read/write apparatus and method for a magentic storage medium comprised of magnetic nanoparticles contained within carbon nanotubes
01/21/2010US20100014186 Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same
01/21/2010US20100014185 Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same
01/21/2010US20100014184 Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same
01/21/2010DE19948314B4 Magnetkopf für magneto-optische Platte Magnetic head for magneto-optical disk
01/19/2010US7649813 Accessing audio-centered information using a multilevel table-of-contents mechanism and directory structures
01/19/2010US7649717 Data storage device with support for wiring structure portion to suppress fluttering
01/19/2010US7649716 Head suspension with arm having flexure and resilient support on opposing sides
01/19/2010US7649707 Auto-servo tape system and associated recording head
01/19/2010US7649706 Apparatus, medium, and method controlling flying height of a magnetic head of a disk drive
01/14/2010US20100007984 Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and reproducing method
01/14/2010US20100007983 Magnetic recording apparatus and method for positioning head
01/14/2010US20100007982 Information storage apparatus
01/13/2010CN100580776C Magnetic disk drive
01/12/2010US7647601 Pickup drive mechanism and recording medium drive having the same
01/12/2010US7646579 Data erasure apparatus and data erasure method
01/12/2010US7646559 Self-servo write stitching system
01/07/2010WO2010001451A1 Magnetic head slider and method of processing same
01/07/2010US20100002332 Optical Path for a Thermal-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head
01/07/2010US20100002331 Adaptive synchronous rectification of brushless dc motor back-emf
01/07/2010US20100002328 Disk drive in which the dynamic flying height of head is adjusted
01/06/2010CN100578647C Method and apparatus for eliminating errors in a seek operation on a recording medium
01/06/2010CN100578624C Magnetic head suspension arm combination, disk drive and its manufacturing method
01/06/2010CN100578230C Spring member for acceleration sensor, acceleration sensor and magnetic disk drive apparatus
01/05/2010US7643383 Multiple layers optical recording for recording data over two or more layers
01/05/2010US7643249 Supporting mechanism for magnetic head slider and testing method for the magnetic head slider
01/05/2010US7643247 β-phase tantalum thin-film resistor and thin-film magnetic head with the resistor
01/05/2010US7643240 Adjusting a fly-height in hard disk drives
01/05/2010US7643239 Controller selection to reduce written-in run-out
01/05/2010US7643234 Servo patterns for self-assembled island arrays
12/2009
12/31/2009US20090323225 Baseplate interconnect
12/31/2009US20090323224 Head gimbals assembly of hard disk and method of assembling thereof
12/31/2009US20090323216 Storage apparatus and storage medium
12/31/2009US20090323215 Head position control device, magnetic disk device, and head position control method
12/31/2009US20090323212 Handling robot of magnetic head assembly, magnetic head test method and magnetic head tester
12/31/2009US20090323079 Method and tester for optical flying height measurement
12/30/2009WO2009157055A1 Magnetic head, head assembly, and magnetic recording device
12/30/2009WO2009137469A8 Playlist processing
12/30/2009WO2009136374A3 Head design for writing servo patterns on magnetic tape
12/29/2009US7639926 Unified control and memory for a combined DVD/HDD system
12/29/2009US7639573 Device for handling data media in a storage device
12/29/2009US7639455 Head suspension and method of processing head suspension
12/29/2009US7639449 Passive fly height adjustment to compensate for ambient pressure changes in a disk drive
12/29/2009US7639448 Differential timing based servo pattern for magnetic-based storage media
12/29/2009US7639446 Disk drive device and servo write method
12/29/2009US7639445 Disk drive device and head positioning control method
12/24/2009US20090316305 Vibration reducing head suspension mechanism for a magnetic disc unit
12/24/2009US20090316294 Head positioning control method, magnetic disk apparatus and feedback control method
12/24/2009US20090316293 Posture adjustment method of magnetic head
12/24/2009US20090316292 Magnetoresistive heads and magnetic recording device
12/24/2009US20090316291 Tandem magnetic writer
12/24/2009US20090316290 Systems and methods for writing servo patterns
12/23/2009WO2009154104A1 Head gimbal assembly and information recording/reproducing device having same
12/23/2009EP2136365A1 High-sensitivity pickup actuator for disc drive
12/23/2009EP1987514B1 Method for improved insitu spiral writing
12/23/2009CN100573677C Auxiliary track-skipping method of disk unit
12/23/2009CN100573671C Magnetic-head slider
12/22/2009US7636222 Tuned mass actuator arms for decreasing track misregistration in a depopulated head suspension disk drive
12/22/2009US7636220 Method of ramp stop detection for VCM velocity-controlled retract
12/22/2009CA2298685C Apparatus and method for modulation/demodulation with consecutive minimum runlength limitation
12/17/2009WO2009150794A1 Motor drive circuit
12/17/2009US20090310722 Tracking system
12/17/2009US20090310260 Magnetic head suspension
12/17/2009US20090310252 Information storing apparatus
12/17/2009US20090310247 Head control apparatus, head control method, and magnetic disk apparatus
12/17/2009US20090310246 Head flying height control method, write current value determining method, and storage device
12/17/2009US20090310245 Method of controlling the position of a read/write head and apparatus for testing a read/write head
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