Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
09/2008
09/04/2008WO2008105334A1 Discrete track medium eccentricity detecting method and eccentricity detecting device
09/04/2008US20080212236 Suspension having magnetic head assembly mounted thereon and magnetic recording disk drive using the suspension
09/04/2008US20080212229 Method of and apparatus for detecing actuator vibration in hard disc drive, and hard disc drive write control method of avoiding effect due to read/write head vibration
09/04/2008US20080212227 Storage medium device, deformation controller and head slider
09/03/2008EP1611505A4 Combination compact disc recorder and player system
09/03/2008CN101258550A Breakage prevention structure of lamp
09/03/2008CN101258543A Controlling an optical disc drive
09/03/2008CN101256806A Recording medium drive and latch member for recording medium drive
09/03/2008CN101256783A Optical disc device
09/03/2008CN101256777A Disk drive with improved method for operating a thermal head fly-height actuator
09/03/2008CN100416694C Probe position error detecting method and apparatus in probe-based data storage system
09/03/2008CN100416672C Optical disk drive equipment, optical adapter, manufacturing method and regulating method thereof
09/03/2008CN100416671C Optical pickup device, disk drive unit, and disk drive device
09/03/2008CN100416670C Recording and/or reproduction apparatus for optical recording media with means for parallel orientation of the scanning device with respect to the surface of the recording medium
09/03/2008CN100416659C Magnetic head device
09/03/2008CN100416656C Air bearing surface processing method of thin-film magnetic head slider
09/03/2008CN100416409C Method for making electronic component using wet corrosion agent
09/02/2008US7421718 Disk conveying means for a disc drive using retractable rollers and guide plates
09/02/2008US7420891 Optical pickup device having heat radiation means and optical disk apparatus using the same
09/02/2008US7420785 Suspension assembly, hard disk drive, and method of manufacturing suspension assembly
09/02/2008US7420784 Rotating disk storage device with high rigidity flexible printed circuit board
09/02/2008US7420783 Slim actuator and slim micro-drive apparatus comprising the same
09/02/2008US7420782 Rotating disk storage device
09/02/2008US7420779 Disk apparatus having suspension provided with head support projections
09/02/2008US7420776 Thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive
09/02/2008US7420762 Head slap detecting device, storage device, head slap detecting method, and computer product
09/02/2008US7420761 Control apparatus, storage device, and head retraction controlling method
09/02/2008US7420760 Method and apparatus reducing flying height drop in a hard disk drive under humid conditions
08/2008
08/28/2008WO2008102004A1 Device comprising a scanning apparatus and shock protection
08/28/2008US20080204941 Hard disk drive having crash stopper and method of assembling the same
08/28/2008US20080204937 Magnetic recording medium, manufacturing method thereof and magnetic recording apparatus using magnetic recording medium
08/28/2008US20080204925 Disk drive device and ramp used therefor
08/28/2008US20080204924 Information recording device
08/28/2008US20080204923 Burn-in process of producing data correlating elevation of disk drive head to temperature and method of controlling the elevation of the disk drive head using the data
08/28/2008US20080204922 Methods and apparatus to monitor hard-disk drive head position
08/27/2008CN101252000A Hard disk driving device and navigation apparatus using the same
08/27/2008CN100414638C Disk type recording and reproducing device
08/27/2008CN100414608C Substrate material for magnetic head, substrate for magnetic head, magnetic head slider and method for producing substrate used for magnetic head
08/27/2008CN100414607C Head position calculation method in magnetic disc apparatus
08/26/2008US7418724 Apparatus for changing multiple media disks
08/26/2008US7418723 Optical pickup device and optical disk record/playback device for reducing the size of the record/playback device
08/26/2008US7417831 Micro-actuator and head gimbal assembly for a disk drive device
08/26/2008US7417829 Head slider having a flat first step and a second flat step with a groove therein, and disk drive employing the head slider
08/26/2008US7417827 Head/slider supporting structure having lead wire inclined relative to slider pad
08/26/2008US7417826 Magnetic recording medium
08/26/2008US7417820 Head support mechanism, magnetic head assembly, and magnetic disk drive apparatus
08/26/2008US7417813 Overlapping data track access
08/21/2008US20080198706 Buffer management method and optical disc drive
08/21/2008US20080198506 Piezoelectric micro-actuator for magnetic tape read/write head
08/21/2008US20080198499 Continuous mode velocity control of voice coil motor
08/20/2008EP1789971A4 Water and shock resistant music player
08/20/2008CN100412964C Scanning device for an apparatus for reading from or writing to optical recording media
08/20/2008CN100412961C Optical read-write module
08/20/2008CN100412958C Disc drive unit and disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus
08/19/2008US7415380 Fall detection device
08/19/2008US7414816 Planar magnetic thin film head
08/19/2008US7414815 Magnetic head actuator with centered deviation
08/19/2008US7414807 Variable mobile media storage system
08/19/2008US7414806 Information recording and reproducing apparatus with power supply voltage monitoring function
08/19/2008US7414512 Operating device, position-switching device, and magneto-optical recording/reproducing apparatus
08/14/2008WO2008055166A3 Hard drive cartridge protection
08/14/2008US20080192383 Magnetic Head Suspension
08/14/2008US20080192379 Manufacturing method for magnetic disk drive
08/13/2008EP1956602A2 Actuator latch system of hard disk drive
08/13/2008EP1956591A2 Actuator latch system for hard disk drive
08/13/2008CN101243498A Apparatus and method for generating a servo pattern
08/13/2008CN101241709A Air bearing design with a flatter pitch profile for reducing particle TA
08/13/2008CN100411052C Head suspension assembly and disk device using same
08/13/2008CN100411045C Disk drive and disk medium
08/13/2008CN100411020C Disk drive device, servo control device, record medium manufacturing method, magnetic record medium, and medium examining method
08/13/2008CN100411015C Micro driver, magnetic head folding-fin combination equipped with the micro driver and disk driver
08/13/2008CN100411014C Micro-driver, magnetic head tabs assembly and magnetic disk driver using it
08/13/2008CN100411013C Magnetic-head cantilever assembling and its manufacturing method
08/12/2008US7412711 Storage and retrieval device for optical discs
08/12/2008US7411764 Head gimbal assembly with precise positioning actuator for read/write head and disk drive device with the head gimbal assembly
08/12/2008US7411763 Electrical connection between a suspension flexure cable and a head stack assembly flexible circuit
08/12/2008US7411760 System and method for correcting for head tilt in HDD
08/12/2008US7411758 Disk drive servo control using spirals
08/12/2008US7411752 Head vibration detection device and method
08/07/2008US20080186810 System and Method for Audiovisual Content Search
08/07/2008US20080186611 Flexible mounting slider with anti-static structure, head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk drive with the same
08/06/2008EP1952403A2 Linear stage including an integrated actuator and associated methods
08/06/2008EP1891628A4 Disk drive fly height control based on constant power dissipation in read/write head heaters
08/06/2008CN101236748A Apparatus, system, and method for an 'M' servo pattern
08/06/2008CN100409355C Optical pickup transferring apparatus of an optical disk drive
08/06/2008CN100409354C Method and device for regulating angle position of magnetic head unit
08/06/2008CN100409328C Method of producing title label using differential phase detecting method and optical disk device
08/06/2008CN100409327C Skip controller of optical read/write head of optical drive and its controlling method
08/06/2008CN100409318C Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and disk
08/06/2008CN100409316C Data anti-damage method of magnetic disc type storage medium
08/05/2008US7408743 Hard disk drive suspension employing a vertical offset to reduce track mis-registration induced by disk vibration
08/05/2008US7408734 Preventing damage to the heads and media in a removable cartridge and disk drive
08/05/2008US7408732 Shock resistant, high reliability rotating magnetic storage device and method
08/05/2008US7408731 Track allocation method of disk drive
07/2008
07/31/2008WO2008090604A1 Information processing device, method for the device, program for the method, recording medium recorded with the program, and disk device
07/31/2008US20080180833 Method and apparatus for spacing control in a disk drive
07/31/2008US20080180832 Bit recording process on ferroelectric medium using probe or small conductive structure and recording medium thereof
07/30/2008EP1203372B1 Method for carrying out a track jump and playback device
07/30/2008CN101233562A Disk drive fly height control based on constant power dissipation in read/write head heaters
07/30/2008CN101231868A Disk drive and calibration method therefor
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