Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
10/2009
10/27/2009US7609592 Reproduction apparatus and method capable of calculating error between designated time point and time stamp
10/27/2009US7609487 Thin-film PZT micro-actuator integral with suspension of head gimbal assembly, and disk drive unit with the same
10/27/2009US7609486 Disk drive including a post attached to a disk drive base and a cover for limiting rotation of an actuator
10/27/2009US7609485 Head gimbal assembly and head stack assembly having accurate dimensions
10/27/2009US7609484 Magnetic disk device
10/27/2009US7609473 Dissipation of liquid droplets in a magnetic disk drive
10/27/2009US7609472 Power and thermal management for a hard drive
10/22/2009US20090262609 Disc transportation mechanism and disk processing device
10/22/2009US20090262461 fluid dynamic bearing with an immiscible fluid barrier
10/22/2009US20090262451 Increased format efficiency using disk synchronized write
10/22/2009US20090262450 Data reading module and method for reading optical disc
10/20/2009US7606118 Music data transfer method, information processing apparatus and information recording/playback system
10/20/2009US7606004 Rotating disk storage device with actuator lock mechanism
10/20/2009US7606001 Vibration reducing head suspension mechanism for a magnetic disc unit
10/20/2009US7606000 Offset structure for disk drive head suspension
10/20/2009US7605997 Head-gap calculating device, storage device, head-gap calculating method, and computer product
10/20/2009US7605996 Method and system for detecting a change in a rotational velocity of a magnetic disk or a spindle coupled to the magnetic disk
10/20/2009US7605995 Servo writer, signal output control method and manufacturing method of magnetic tape using the signal output control method
10/20/2009US7605994 Multiple sinusoidal seek servo system for reducing seek acoustics and seek time in hard disk drives
10/15/2009US20090257326 Medium management method and storage device
10/15/2009US20090257325 Optical disk medium and method and apparatus for reading information
10/15/2009US20090257146 Magnetic disc apparatus and track following method
10/15/2009US20090257145 Control circuit and information storage device
10/15/2009US20090257144 Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage device using the same
10/15/2009US20090257143 Thin-film magnetic head having function of adjusting closure height
10/14/2009EP2109099A2 Ramp to park read/write head and hard disk drive including the same
10/14/2009CN100550167C Method and apparatus for controlling copy or reproduction of coding digital data
10/14/2009CN100550164C Data storage device and a method of controlling write of user data thereof
10/14/2009CN100550135C Method and apparatus for measuring slider mounting position
10/13/2009US7602678 Lens holder and lens protector for use in optical pick-up and method of manufacturing same
10/13/2009US7602676 Method for recording a lead-out on an optical disc
10/13/2009US7602586 Head parking ramp for data storage device
10/13/2009US7602585 Actuator for a disk drive having a suspension assembly including a flexure of a monolithic structure and a limiter
10/13/2009US7602575 Disk drive adjusting estimated reader/writer offset to achieve target burst crossing signal amplitude when propagating servo sectors
10/13/2009US7602574 Storage apparatus, storage medium, and control method and program of storage apparatus
10/13/2009US7602573 Device and method for adjusting distance between magnetic head and data storage medium
10/13/2009US7602572 Stability margins and error recovery in servo control systems
10/13/2009US7602571 Apparatus and method to control flying height of magnetic head in retry mode and disk drive using the same
10/13/2009US7600310 Method of head stack assembly flexible circuit assembly attached to an actuator arm
10/08/2009US20090251820 Integrated servo and read emr sensor
10/08/2009US20090251819 Hard disk drive and method of setting a write-verify temperature thereof
10/07/2009CN101551656A Information processing device and method, program, and recording/reproducing device
10/06/2009US7600235 Optical disk device
10/06/2009US7599610 Interface for audio visual device
10/06/2009US7599256 Method and apparatus for reproducing information from recording medium
10/06/2009US7599143 Information recording/reproduction apparatus, head levitation height control method and head levitation control circuit
10/06/2009US7599142 Apparatus and method for slider-disk contact indication by monitoring the spindle control signal in a hard disk drive
10/06/2009US7597833 Fixtureless manufacture of bonded actuator/coil assemblies
10/06/2009US7597792 Electro-etching; contact-start-stop (CSS); discrete track recording (DTR)
10/01/2009WO2009118879A1 Moving apparatus and information recording/reproducing apparatus
10/01/2009WO2009118854A1 Recording medium driving device, magnetic recording medium, method for controlling flying height of head element, and flying height control circuit of head element
10/01/2009US20090245035 Disc storage apparatus and disc storage method
10/01/2009US20090244766 Information access device
10/01/2009US20090244765 Patterned media magnetic recording disk drive with write clock phase adjustment for data pattern circumferential misalignment
10/01/2009DE19949155B4 Schwingspulenmotoranordnung für ein Festplattenlaufwerk und Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Magnetplatte Voice coil motor assembly for a hard disk drive and method for producing a magnetic disk
09/2009
09/29/2009US7596795 Vibration compensation based on identification of vibration frequency
09/29/2009US7596074 Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof
09/29/2009US7595964 Method for reducing off track head motion due to disk vibration in a hard disk drive through the head gimbal assembly
09/29/2009US7595961 Base member and information storage apparatus
09/29/2009US7595958 System including a hard disk drive and stray magnetic field sensor and associated method
09/29/2009US7595952 Magnetic head evaluation apparatus and method for manufacturing magnetic disk drive using the same
09/24/2009US20090238046 Information recording device and method, and computer program
09/24/2009US20090237843 Magnetic head assembly and storage apparatus
09/24/2009US20090237833 Magnetic tape apparatus using perpendicular magnetic recording
09/24/2009US20090237831 Storage device, magnetic circuit, and actuator
09/24/2009US20090237830 Method of controlling flying height of head slider and information storage apparatus
09/24/2009US20090237829 Information recording medium
09/23/2009EP1991461B1 Method and apparatus for identifying free fall
09/23/2009CN101542626A Method for mating flexure to flex-print circuit and flexure therefor
09/23/2009CN101542625A Method and apparatus for reproducing servo data from a discrete track media in a disk drive
09/23/2009CN101542624A Optical disc device
09/23/2009CN100544573C Component placement apparatus, component feeding apparatus and method
09/22/2009US7593179 Control apparatus, storage apparatus, and writing control method
09/22/2009US7593178 Method of reducing abrasion of disk by using dithering process and disk drive using the same
09/22/2009US7591180 Contact inspection device, and contact inspection device and method for magnetic disk device
09/17/2009WO2009113163A1 Moving apparatus
09/17/2009US20090231752 Magnetic tape driving apparatus
09/17/2009US20090231748 Magnetic recording medium, apparatus and method for recording reference signal in the same
09/17/2009US20090229110 Tool for use in removing head
09/15/2009US7590781 Signal processing system for electronic systems having different types of input/output controllers
09/15/2009US7590034 Method for detecting servo error, apparatus therefor, disk which maintains quality of servo error signal, method of controlling servo of disk recording/reproducing apparatus, method of detecting tracking error, and method of detecting tilt error
09/15/2009US7589938 Read-write head with integrated microactuator
09/15/2009US7589936 Center-tapped write coil
09/15/2009US7589929 Servo pattern writing apparatus, servo pattern writing method, servo pattern reading apparatus, and servo pattern reading method
09/15/2009US7589928 Magnetic recording device including a thermal proximity sensor
09/15/2009US7587808 Method of coupling a voice coil motor to a base plate of a hard disk drive
09/10/2009US20090225474 Magnetic disk apparatus with heating device and magnetic head slider used therefor
09/10/2009US20090225467 Method of creating correction table for head position control, head position control method, and disk device
09/10/2009US20090225466 Hard disk drive adapted to detect free-fall and perform emergency parking of read/write head prior to impact
09/10/2009US20090225465 Magnetic recording head and magnetic recording apparatus
09/10/2009US20090223040 Method for loading single head in a hard disk drive
09/09/2009CN101527151A Optical disc apparatus
09/08/2009US7586832 Information recording medium, and recording method and reproducing method thereof
09/08/2009US7586817 Appliance for recording or playing back information having means for detecting or moving the scanning location on a disc with a wobble track
09/08/2009US7586814 Recording media data structure and method of reading data recorded in recording media
09/08/2009US7586712 Method of and apparatus for detecting actuator vibration in hard disc drive, and hard disc drive write control method of avoiding effect due to read/write head vibration
09/08/2009US7586711 Magnetic performance of a magnetic transducer operating within a hard disk drive
09/08/2009US7586710 Control of transducer to tape spacing
09/08/2009US7586709 Read write offset error correction using geometric reference in self servo write process
09/03/2009US20090219648 Apparatus, system, and method for limiting frame spacing error during timing-based servo pattern fabrication
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