Patents
Patents for G11B 21 - Head arrangements not specific to the method of recording or reproducing (20,963)
05/2008
05/20/2008US7375912 Disk drive fly height control based on constant power dissipation in read/write head heaters
05/20/2008US7375911 Piezoelectric actuator and sensor for disk drive dual-stage servo systems
05/20/2008US7375822 Rotation and translation measurement
05/20/2008CA2426309C Recording medium for protecting copyrighted data
05/15/2008WO2008057389A1 System for maintaining a large number of handheld electronic devices
05/15/2008WO2008056710A1 Ceramic sinter, magnetic head substrate and magnetic head using the ceramic sinter, and recording medium drive unit
05/15/2008US20080112306 Hydrodynamic bearing device, spindle motor, and recording and reproducing apparatus
05/15/2008US20080112278 Method of and apparatus for recording data on write-once disc, method of and apparatus for reproducing data from write-once disc, and write-once disc therefor
05/15/2008US20080112085 Write Through Drivers for Disk Drive Systems
05/14/2008CN101178905A Device and method for magnetic head slide block judgement
05/14/2008CN100388377C Disc apparatus
05/14/2008CN100388359C Disk device and slider
05/13/2008US7372671 Disk apparatus
05/13/2008US7372669 Magnetic disk drive, wiring connection structure and terminal structure
05/13/2008US7372662 Base deck with formed-in-place gaskets and impact dissipation members for a data storage device
05/13/2008US7372658 Correction table creation method for head position control, head position control method and disk device
05/13/2008US7371488 Method of manufacturing magnetic head
05/07/2008CN101176157A Method and system for synchronizing information specific to a location on a surface with an external source
05/07/2008CN101174447A Head controller, storage device and head controlling method
05/07/2008CN101174446A Optical disc apparatus
05/07/2008CN101174423A Control device, control method, and storage apparatus
05/07/2008CN101174422A Micro actuator, magnetic recording head tabs combination containing the same and disk drive unit
05/07/2008CN101174417A Head slider and method of making the same and grinding apparatus for head slider
05/07/2008CN101174415A System and method for recognizing problems of micro-actuator piezoelectric elements
05/07/2008CN100386803C Shaft support mechanism of optical disk drive and skew adjustment mechanism of optical disk drive
05/06/2008US7370340 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
05/06/2008US7369464 Editing device capable of changing the displaying mode of management information
05/06/2008US7369369 Bidirectional micropositioning recording head for a magnetic storage device
05/06/2008US7369368 Head stack assembly having an actuator body with multiple slots adjacent to a bore
05/06/2008US7369367 Disk drive voice coil motor yoke assembly having proximity latch magnet pair attracting and holding voice coil bias steel therebetween
05/06/2008US7369366 Suspension assembly of actuator for disk drive with portion of load beam inclined lengthwise between limiter and leading end
05/06/2008US7369365 Head slider capable of being reliably released from effect of moving recording medium
05/06/2008US7369364 Interconnect for dissipating electrostatic charges on a head slider
05/06/2008US7369355 Magnetic disk drive apparatus and manufacturing method of magnetic disk drive apparatus
05/06/2008US7369350 Power protection for VCM control loop in hard disk drive servo IC
05/06/2008US7369349 Data storage device with heater, and control method therefor involving different control modes
05/06/2008US7369348 Method and apparatus for adaptation to humidity in a hard disk drive
05/06/2008US7369347 Apparatus and method for piezoelectric layer as vertical micro-actuator in slider of a hard disk drive
05/06/2008US7369346 Method for retracting head upon interruption of power, and disk drive employing the method
05/06/2008US7369345 Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection
05/06/2008US7369341 Head flying height measuring apparatus in magnetic storage device
05/06/2008US7369338 Servo writer, and write and inspection method of servo signal
05/01/2008US20080100956 Seek adaptation system in hard disk drives
05/01/2008US20080100952 Detection and measurement of position error signal linearity in timing based servo patterns using differential nonlinearity
05/01/2008US20080100951 Head controller, storage device, and head controlling method
05/01/2008US20080100950 Control device, control method, and storage apparatus
05/01/2008US20080099235 Printed-wiring board, method for forming electrode of the board, and hard disk device
04/2008
04/30/2008EP1733389B1 Slider with a constant flying height
04/30/2008EP1122722B1 Near field optical head and method for manufacturing the same
04/30/2008EP0919053A4 Suspension with biaxially shielded conductor trace array
04/30/2008CN100385544C Optical disk drive device
04/30/2008CN100385510C Magnetic recording media, magnetic recording apparatus, and stamper
04/30/2008CN100385506C Rotating disk type storage unit
04/30/2008CN100385503C Manufacturing method of magnetic head slider, magnetic head slider and magnetic device
04/29/2008US7366072 Optical heads device and control method of optical head
04/29/2008US7366061 Information recording apparatus, information reproducing apparatus, and method and system for recording and reproducing information in a plurality of levels of recording units
04/29/2008US7365947 Head support mechanism, head arm assembly, and disk drive apparatus with head arm assembly with weight formed around horizontal bearing
04/29/2008US7365946 Recorder/reproducer
04/29/2008US7365945 Magnetic head suspension with a lift tab
04/29/2008US7365944 Magnetic head suspension with reduced mass load beam portion
04/29/2008US7365931 Information-recording/reproducing apparatus and method of detecting the gap between a head and a recording medium
04/29/2008US7365930 Load/unload mechanism for magnetic disk drive
04/29/2008US7365927 Eccentricity correction data recording method and recording medium having eccentricity correction data
04/29/2008US7365926 Signal processing method of magnetic recording medium and magnetic record reproduction apparatus
04/24/2008US20080094758 Piezoelectric Actuated Suspension with Passive Damping in Hard Disk Drives
04/24/2008US20080094754 Method of manufacturing a head assembly
04/24/2008DE102006050158A1 Data carrier's data transmission rate increasing method for e.g. hard disk, involves mechanically connecting writing head and reading head of writing- and/or reading head unit of housing and/or drive, and simultaneously moving heads
04/23/2008CN201051397Y Disk driver for overcoming the track location deviation
04/23/2008CN101167132A Suspended rack assembly method and making process
04/23/2008CN101165781A Read-write head slider reducing probability of collision against recording medium and method of making the same
04/23/2008CN100383888C magnetic head locator and magnetic disc equipment with the locator
04/23/2008CN100383875C Fall detection method and system
04/23/2008CN100383867C Optical pickup device and optical disk recording/playback device
04/23/2008CN100383858C Magnetic head slider material, magnetic head slider, and method for manufacturing magnetic head slider material
04/22/2008US7363028 System and method for controlling device location determination
04/22/2008US7362545 Head stack assembly and manufacturing method thereof, and disk drive unit using the same
04/22/2008US7362544 Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head
04/22/2008US7362539 Disk drive and method of controlling the same
04/22/2008US7362536 Disk drive that compensates for phase incoherence between radially adjacent servo tracks and methods thereof
04/22/2008US7362535 Magnetic disk drive and recording method
04/22/2008US7362534 System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive
04/22/2008US7362533 Disk drive with slider burnishing-on-demand
04/17/2008US20080089664 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital data
04/17/2008US20080089191 Electromagnetic drive system
04/17/2008US20080089190 Automated data storage library robot accessors with pivoting grippers for passing
04/17/2008US20080089189 Optical Disc Apparatus
04/17/2008US20080088975 Method for forming an electrical interconnect to a spring layer in an integrated lead suspension
04/17/2008US20080088966 Servo control method and apparatus in seek retry condition and disk drive apparatus using the same
04/17/2008US20080088965 Online identification of secondary actuator transfer function via system decoupling in multiple-stage actuator servo systems in disk drives
04/16/2008CN101164114A Head support device and disk device with the same
04/16/2008CN101164113A Power transmission member for head transfer mechanism, and disk device with the head transfer mechanism
04/16/2008CN100382192C Apparatus for magnetic recording and method for measuring the offset amount
04/16/2008CN100382150C Engineered interface for low fly height
04/16/2008CN100382149C Magnetic disc device and method for producing the same
04/16/2008CN100382147C A rotating recorder with dual encoder arrangement having eccentricity compensation
04/15/2008US7360226 Disk player
04/15/2008US7359159 Actuator for hard disk drive having a reinforced structure
04/15/2008US7359158 Suspension of disc drive
04/15/2008US7359157 Resin and metal head suspension for disk drive
04/15/2008US7359155 Slider, head assembly and disk apparatus
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