Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
11/2008
11/20/2008US20080285169 Magnetic disk drive
11/19/2008EP1991461A1 Method and apparatus for identifying free fall
11/19/2008CN101308666A Method for specifying control value for controlling clearance adjustment amount, disk drive device and manufacturing method thereof
11/19/2008CN100435214C Servo track writer, disk drive and manufacture method of disk drive
11/18/2008US7453773 Method of eliminating home-in noise in optical disc drive by using variable step counter
11/18/2008US7453670 Suspension holder pallet
11/18/2008US7453669 Suspension assembly having reinforced end-tab and actuator for disk drive adopting the same
11/18/2008US7453662 Estimating residual temperature for flying height adjustment of read/write heads
11/18/2008US7453661 Servo writing a disk drive with a controlled overlap near the middle diameter of the disk
11/18/2008US7453046 Recording disk drive capable of suppressing vibration of flexible printed circuit board
11/13/2008WO2004047145A3 System and method using magnetoresistive heads on flexible substrate rotating magnetic media employing a robust contact head-disk interface
11/13/2008US20080278856 Fixing apparatus for hard disk drive
11/13/2008US20080278842 Corrected read/write offset compensation
11/12/2008CN100433172C Micro drive, assembled folding piece of magnetic head, disk drive and manufacturing method
11/12/2008CN100433149C Device for correcting inclination of CD driver
11/12/2008CN100433148C Optical disk drive
11/12/2008CN100433144C Track-jump control system and method for maintaining track-jump stability
11/12/2008CN100433143C Adapter member, disk drive unit, and disk drive device
11/12/2008CN100433132C Magnetic head slider
11/12/2008CN100433130C Magnetic disk drive
11/11/2008US7450347 Head suspension with bridge portion separating apertures near lift tab
11/11/2008US7450346 Method and apparatus for reducing heat absorption around solder pads on an electrical lead suspension
11/11/2008US7450345 Magnetic head supporting mechanism with two openings proximate to pivot of load beam
11/11/2008US7450341 Intergrated thin film subgap subpole structure for arbitrary gap pattern magnetic recording heads and method of making the same
11/11/2008US7450336 Method for improved repeatable run out learning in a disk drive
11/11/2008US7450334 Disk drive adjusting predictive caching based on temperature of voice coil motor
11/11/2008US7450333 Electrostatic fly-height control
11/11/2008US7450332 Free-fall detection device and free-fall protection system for a portable electronic apparatus
11/06/2008WO2008133072A1 Substrate for suspension, method for producing the same, magnetic head suspension, and hard disk drive
11/06/2008WO2008132827A1 Optical disc device
11/06/2008US20080273272 Micro-Actuator, HGA Equipped with the Micro-Actuator and Method for Manufacturing the HGA
11/06/2008US20080273265 Determining smear of a hard disk drive slider
11/05/2008EP1987514A1 Method for improved insitu spiral writing
11/05/2008CN100431036C Magnetic disc drive
11/05/2008CN100431014C Write control method
11/05/2008CN100431011C Magnetic head slider
11/05/2008CN100431010C Slider and magnetic disk unit
11/05/2008CN100431008C Micro-actuator, magnetic head universal suspension support assembly and magnetic disc driver
11/04/2008US7448057 Audiovisual reproduction system
11/04/2008US7447122 Disk device and drive unit-driving mechanism
11/04/2008US7446978 Magnetic slider and method of manufacturing magnetic head slider
11/04/2008US7446970 Magnetic head assembly, magnetic disk drive and posture control method for magnetic head slider
11/04/2008US7446967 Method of measuring head characteristics of a data storage device, and data storage device
10/2008
10/30/2008WO2008130069A1 Real-time multilayer image synthesis recording system and method, and a recording medium using the system and method
10/30/2008WO2008129674A1 Recording disk drive and latch system
10/30/2008WO2008129661A1 Storage device, recording medium evaluation device, recording medium evaluation method, and recording medium evaluation program
10/30/2008WO2008129616A1 Storage device, storage device controller, and storage device control method
10/30/2008US20080267019 Optical Pickup Apparatus and Optical Disk Drive
10/30/2008US20080266717 Mounting assembly
10/30/2008US20080266704 Hard disk drive, method of controlling flying height of magnetic head thereof, and recording medium containing computer program thereon
10/30/2008US20080266703 Hard disk drive apparatus, method of controlling flying height of magnetic head thereof, and recording medium to contain computer program therefor
10/30/2008US20080266702 System for measuring head spacing (fly height) in a disk drive
10/30/2008US20080266701 Magnetic recording disk with identical servo patterns formed on each disk surface by single master template and disk drive using the disk
10/30/2008US20080266692 Magnetic disk device and data writing method thereof
10/29/2008CN101297368A 硬盘驱动器 Hard Drive
10/29/2008CN101295513A Cantilever member and manufacturing method thereof, magnetic head tab combination and disk drive unit
10/29/2008CN101295509A Magnetic head driver with flight height regulation structure and disk drive unit
10/29/2008CN100429719C Correction table creation method for head position control, head position control method and disk device
10/29/2008CN100429718C Head position control method and disc device
10/29/2008CN100429716C Detecting anomalies in a scanning signal
10/28/2008US7444650 Disk apparatus
10/28/2008US7441959 Bearing mechanism for spindle motor in magnetic disk drive
10/23/2008US20080259747 Detecting apparatus for detecting statuses of optical disc and method thereof
10/23/2008US20080259500 Head slider for disk apparatus
10/23/2008US20080259496 Magnetic disk protection mechanism, computer system comprising protection mechanism, protection method for magnetic disk, and program for protection method
10/23/2008US20080259487 Media drive, processing method for recording data onto a medium, processing method for data read from a medium, and method for controlling a process for reading data from a medium
10/23/2008US20080259486 Methods for enabling functionality in multi-modal data storage systems
10/22/2008EP1982333A2 Hard disk drive with external sensor interface, system, and method
10/22/2008EP1087386B1 Disk player
10/22/2008CN101290777A Head having a trailing air flow dam that is shallowly recessed from an air bearing surface
10/22/2008CN101290776A Cantilever part, combination of tabs of magnetic head, manufacturing method thereof, and hard disk driving unit
10/22/2008CN100428333C Suspension assembly having reinforced end-tab and actuator for disk drive adopting the same
10/21/2008USRE40545 Servo control appartaus and method using absolute value input signals
10/21/2008US7440360 Apparatus and method for retrieving data related to a data cartridge in a media storage system
10/21/2008US7440236 Apparatus for insulating and electronically connecting piezoelectric motor in dual stage actuator suspension from the same side of the suspension
10/21/2008US7440235 Tape drive apparatus with a head alignment system
10/21/2008US7440234 Disk drive including an actuator arm with a region of reduced thickness between an arm longitudinal axis and a disk axis of rotation
10/21/2008US7440224 Disk drive servo
10/21/2008US7440220 Method for defining a touch-down power for head having a flying height actuator
10/21/2008US7440218 Charge remover for magnetic disk
10/21/2008US7440217 On the fly write head flyheight detector
10/21/2008US7440216 Rotary piezoelectric microactuator with an optimum suspension arrangement
10/21/2008US7438229 Combined magnetic shield member and pressure pad for a magnetic reader
10/16/2008US20080253030 Rotational based actuator configured to impart linear movement
10/16/2008US20080253017 Apparatus for recording or retrieving data on magnetic tape
10/16/2008US20080253006 Mirror mounting assembly
10/15/2008CN100426412C HGA with flying altitude regulator, hard disc driver and producing method thereof
10/15/2008CN100426411C Head position control method and disk storage device
10/15/2008CN100426381C An improved electrical connection between a suspension flexure cable and a head stack flexure circuit
10/14/2008US7436620 Method for selecting an electrical power to be applied to a head-based flying height actuator
10/14/2008US7436619 Head floating amount control method and unit, storage apparatus and computer-readable program
10/14/2008US7436618 Circuit and method for protecting emergency head-retract capacitor in a hard disk drive
10/14/2008US7436617 Controller, state estimator and methods for use therewith
10/14/2008US7436616 Current pulsing for unloading
10/14/2008US7436614 Data storage device and data storage device control
10/14/2008US7436611 Method of servo writing for magnetic recording system, magnetic recording system
10/14/2008US7436380 Electronic Apparatus with level detecting function
10/09/2008WO2008120404A1 Glide head for magnetic disk
10/09/2008WO2008120364A1 Pickup moving device and disk device
10/09/2008US20080247091 Stand-alone quasi-static tester
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