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Recorded: 2003-02-04 Pages: 29
Assignor
MARIANA HDD B.V.
Executed: 2002-12-31
Assignee
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES NETHERLANDS B.V.
LOCATELLIKADE 1, PARNASSUSTOREN, 1076 AZ AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Covered Properties (996)
Magnetic Head Slider of Ceramic Material
Patent: 4,549,238 →
Application: 06/456,641 →
Closed Loop Cooling System for Disk File with Heat Exchanger Integral with Baseplate
Patent: 4,488,193 →
Application: 06/480,628 →
Identification Field Scan Apparatus
Patent: 4,504,873 →
Application: 06/482,099 →
Magnetizable Recording Disk and Disk File Employing Servo Sector Head Positioning
Patent: 4,511,938 →
Application: 06/504,764 →
Phase Modulated Servo System
Patent: 4,549,232 →
Application: 06/507,647 →
Composite Thin Film Transducer Head
Patent: 4,589,042 →
Application: 06/508,207 →
Information Storage Disk Transducer Position Control System Using a Prerecorded Servo Pattern Requiring No Alignment with the Storage Disk
Patent: 4,558,383 →
Application: 06/509,746 →
Ion Doped Servo Pattern for Magnetic Recording Disk
Patent: 4,556,597 →
Application: 06/524,950 →
Track Following Servo System for a Disk File
Patent: 4,594,622 →
Application: 06/606,009 →
Magnetic Recording Disk Using Silicon Substrate
Patent: 4,675,240 →
Application: 06/612,972 →
Apparatus for Analyzing the Interface Between a Recording Disk and a Read-Write Head
Patent: 4,532,802 →
Application: 06/615,638 →
Shrink Ring for Disk Clamping
Patent: 4,639,802 →
Application: 06/624,330 →
Apparatus and Method for Instrumented Radial Translation of a Read/ Write Transducer at Start-Up of a Rotating Disk File
Patent: 4,589,036 →
Application: 06/677,761 →
Alternately Centered Disk Pack Assembly and Method
Patent: 4,683,505 →
Application: 06/685,433 →
Optical Servo for Magnetic Disks
Patent: 4,633,451 →
Application: 06/686,634 →
Positioning Misaligned Disk Heads
Patent: 4,633,345 →
Application: 06/737,623 →
Disk File Servo Control System with Fast Reduction of Repeatable Head Position Error
Patent: 4,616,276 →
Application: 06/755,527 →
Combed Mr Sensor
Patent: 4,649,447 →
Application: 06/765,999 →
Magnetoresistive Read Transducer Having Patterned Longitudinal Bias
Patent: 4,663,685 →
Application: 06/766,157 →
Disk Drive Enclosure with an Inclined Parting Surface
Patent: 4,724,499 →
Application: 06/787,933 →
Silicon/Carbon Protection of Metallic Magnetic Structures
Patent: 4,647,494 →
Application: 06/793,517 →
Disk Drive Head Access Mechanism
Patent: 4,707,753 →
Application: 06/807,044 →
Data Disk Drive Velocity Estimator
Patent: 4,691,152 →
Application: 06/830,618 →
Magnetic Head Air Bearing Slider
Patent: 4,734,803 →
Application: 06/841,646 →
Magnetic Recording Medium with an Underlayer and a Cobalt-Based Magnetic Layer
Patent: 4,654,276 →
Application: 06/857,019 →
Magnetic Recording Medium with a Chromium Alloy Underlayer and a Cobalt-Based Magnetic Layer
Patent: 4,652,499 →
Application: 06/857,020 →
Digital Servo Control System for a Data Recording Disk File
Patent: 4,679,103 →
Application: 06/857,263 →
Adaptive Control Technique for a Dynamic System
Patent: 4,697,127 →
Application: 06/871,949 →
Compensation of Write Current and Delta-V for Recording Component and Radial Position
Patent: 4,821,125 →
Application: 06/872,793 →
Visco-Elastically Damped Magnetic Head Suspension Assembly
Patent: 4,760,478 →
Application: 06/883,201 →
Slider-Suspension Assembly and Method for Attaching a Slider to a Suspension in a Data Recording Disk File
Patent: 4,761,699 →
Application: 06/923,932 →
Thinn Film Magnetic Read-Write Head/Arm Read-Write Head/Arm Assemblies
Patent: 4,789,914 →
Application: 06/923,942 →
Magnetoresistive Read Transducer
Patent: 4,713,708 →
Application: 06/926,076 →
Disk File with Air Filtration System
Patent: 4,809,102 →
Application: 07/043,508 →
Magnetoresistive Read Transducer with Insulator Defined Trackwidth
Patent: 4,782,414 →
Application: 07/078,739 →
Disk Drive Head Retract and Motor Braking Method and Apparatus
Patent: 4,831,469 →
Application: 07/079,302 →
Magnetic Disk Drive with Low Profile Head-Suspension System
Patent: 4,853,811 →
Application: 07/081,204 →
Disk File Digital Servo Control System with Compensation for Variation in Actuator Acceleration Factor
Patent: 4,835,633 →
Application: 07/097,778 →
Disk File Digital Servo Control System with Optimized Sampling Rate
Patent: 4,816,941 →
Application: 07/097,787 →
Method and Apparatus for Detecting Abnormal Operation of Moving Storage Apparatus
Patent: 4,872,071 →
Application: 07/143,798 →
Thin Film Magnetic Heads with Thermally Crosslinked Insulation
Patent: 4,875,124 →
Application: 07/182,535 →
Thin Film Magnetic Recording Disk and Fabrication Process
Patent: 4,935,278 →
Application: 07/187,110 →
Process for Making a Shielded Magnetoresistive Sensor
Patent: 4,918,554 →
Application: 07/249,916 →
Magnetic Head Air Bearing Slider
Patent: 4,894,740 →
Application: 07/250,686 →
Carbon Overcoat for a Thin Film Magnetic Recording Disk Containing Discrete Clusters of Tungsten (W0) or Tungsten Carbide (Wc) Which Project from the Surface of the Overcoat
Patent: 5,030,494 →
Application: 07/302,844 →
Servo Pattern Writing Method for a Disk Storage Device
Patent: 5,012,363 →
Application: 07/305,268 →
Lapping Control System for Magnetic Transducers
Patent: 4,912,883 →
Application: 07/310,410 →
Thin Film Magnetic Recording Disk Comprising Alternating Layers of a Coni or Copt Alloy and a Non-Magnetic Spacer Layer
Patent: 5,051,288 →
Application: 07/324,374 →
Recirculating Air Filter System for Rotating Disk Drives
Patent: 5,025,337 →
Application: 07/334,669 →
Rigid Magnetic Data Storage Disk Assembly with Grooved Spacer
Patent: 5,006,942 →
Application: 07/339,282 →
Magnetic Head/Support Assembly and Access Mechanism for a Disk File
Patent: 5,012,368 →
Application: 07/340,104 →
Magnetic Disk Burnishing Method and Apparatus
Patent: 5,018,311 →
Application: 07/372,971 →
Laminated Suspension for a Negative Pressure Slider in a Data Recording Disk File
Patent: 4,996,623 →
Application: 07/390,558 →
Low Noise Thin Film Metal Alloy Magnetic Recording Disk
Patent: 5,066,552 →
Application: 07/394,784 →
Magnetoresistive Read Transducer Having Hard Magnetic Bias
Patent: 5,018,037 →
Application: 07/419,246 →
Method and Apparatus for Determining the Error Rate of Magnetic Recording Disk Drives Having Amplitude Sampling Data Detection
Patent: 5,121,263 →
Application: 07/429,750 →
Dual Sector Servo System for Disk File with Separate Read and Write Heads
Patent: 5,073,833 →
Application: 07/434,152 →
Disk Drive Breather Filter
Patent: 5,030,260 →
Application: 07/445,818 →
High Coercivity Low Noise Cobalt Alloy Magnetic Recording Medium and Its Manufacturing Process
Patent: 5,062,938 →
Application: 07/464,842 →
Sectored Servo Independent of Data Architecture
Patent: 5,210,660 →
Application: 07/466,194 →
Inductive Head Lamination with Layer of Magnetic Quenching Material
Patent: 5,576,099 →
Application: 07/477,696 →
Disk File with Adaptive Cancellation of Nonrepeatable Disk Runout
Patent: 5,072,318 →
Application: 07/479,497 →
Actuator Locking System of Disk Unit
Patent: 5,043,834 →
Application: 07/486,634 →
Method and Apparatus for Recovering Data
Patent: 5,189,566 →
Application: 07/494,047 →
Thin Film Magnetic Media
Patent: 5,063,120 →
Application: 07/503,070 →
Disk Drive with Minimized Head-Arm Excursions
Patent: 5,083,229 →
Application: 07/509,860 →
Method and Apparatus for Bearing to Comb Attachment
Patent: 5,146,450 →
Application: 07/532,307 →
Method and Apparatus for Performing a Seek
Patent: 5,119,250 →
Application: 07/538,958 →
Tool for Removing Computer Hard Drives
Patent: 332,036 →
Application: 07/556,911 →
Magnetic Recording Device with Unitary Fiter Medium to Trap Organic and Inorganic Chemical
Patent: 5,124,856 →
Application: 07/562,189 →
Transducer Head Skew Arrangement for Disk Drive System
Patent: 5,193,036 →
Application: 07/591,910 →
Method for Stringing Wire on an Actuator Arm
Patent: 5,074,029 →
Application: 07/591,911 →
Method of Assembling a Disk File
Patent: 5,150,512 →
Application: 07/602,241 →
Portable Computer Hard Disk Protective Reflex System
Patent: 5,227,929 →
Application: 07/618,192 →
Transducer Head Flying Height Monitoring Methods and Apparatus for Disk Drive System
Patent: 5,168,413 →
Application: 07/621,010 →
Magnetic Head Slider Having a Protective Coating Therein
Patent: 5,159,508 →
Application: 07/634,671 →
Thin Film Magnetic Head Having a Protective Coating and Method for Making Same
Patent: 5,175,658 →
Application: 07/634,834 →
Process for Bonding Lubricants to Thin Film Recording Media
Patent: 5,030,478 →
Application: 07/657,341 →
Magnetic Recording Head with Integrated Magnetoresistive Element and Open Yoke
Patent: 5,164,869 →
Application: 07/661,797 →
Magnetoresistive Read Transducer with Insulator Defined Trackwidth
Patent: 34,099 →
Application: 07/682,501 →
Near Contact Magnetic Recording Using a Liquid Lubricant Bearing to Seperate Media and Transducer
Patent: 5,742,449 →
Application: 07/689,671 →
Head Lead Termination
Patent: 5,249,092 →
Application: 07/691,000 →
Transducer Carrier for Disk File with Liquid Film Head-Disk Interface
Patent: 5,200,867 →
Application: 07/724,696 →
Actuator Returning and Holding Device for a Disk Unit
Patent: 5,124,867 →
Application: 07/732,950 →
Magnetic Recording Disk, Magnetoresistive Read Head, Inductive Write Head Combination
Patent: 5,227,212 →
Application: 07/739,565 →
Adaptable Clock Control Methods and Apparatus for a Direct Access Disk Drive System
Patent: 5,255,132 →
Application: 07/754,877 →
Shaft Mounting for a Disk File
Patent: 5,563,750 →
Application: 07/761,863 →
Slider Air Bearing Surface with Angled Rail Configuration
Patent: 5,287,235 →
Application: 07/783,477 →
Transducer Head for Rigid Disk Drive
Patent: 5,245,487 →
Application: 07/784,067 →
Tribo-Attractive Contact Data Storage System
Patent: 5,305,165 →
Application: 07/814,124 →
Direct Access Storage Device with Vapor Phase Lubricant System and a Magnetic Disk Having a Protective Layer and Immobile Physically Bonded Lubricant Layer
Patent: 5,331,487 →
Application: 07/822,005 →
Distributed Arithmetic Digital Filter in a Partial-Response Maximum- Likelihood Disk Drive System
Patent: 5,258,940 →
Application: 07/851,817 →
Method and Apparatus for Cleaning Disks
Patent: 5,351,156 →
Application: 07/857,354 →
Fixed Block Architecture Disk File with Improved Position Identification and Error Handling
Patent: 5,369,535 →
Application: 07/858,390 →
Elastic Cord Apparatus
Patent: 5,205,803 →
Application: 07/864,303 →
Liquid-Bearing Data Recording Disk File with Transducer Carrier Having Rear Ski Pad at the Head-Disk Interface
Patent: 5,267,104 →
Application: 07/876,236 →
Liquid-Bearing Data Recording Disk File with Transducer Carrier Having Support Struts
Patent: 5,285,337 →
Application: 07/876,843 →
Dasd with Spindle Imbalance Isolation and Method for Producing Same
Patent: 5,400,196 →
Application: 07/878,191 →
Seal for Bearings in Small Angle Oscillation Applications
Patent: 5,416,657 →
Application: 07/922,290 →
Spindle Control Method and Apparatus for Disk Drive
Patent: 5,289,097 →
Application: 07/931,807 →
Step Projection Air Bearing Slider with Improved Stiction Performance and Wear Resistance
Patent: 5,345,353 →
Application: 07/948,182 →
High-Transition-Rate, Low-Supply-Voltage Write Driver Circuitry for Magnetic Inductive Write Head
Patent: 5,296,975 →
Application: 07/958,635 →
Direct Access Storage Device Having a Stable Ball Bearing Cage Design
Patent: 5,394,284 →
Application: 07/959,007 →
Method and Apparatus for Fast Positioning a Head of a Recording Device
Patent: 5,561,568 →
Application: 07/962,445 →
High Capacity, High Performance Low Profile Disk Drive
Patent: 5,986,852 →
Application: 07/963,440 →
Slider Bearing Design for Near Contact Magnetic Recording
Patent: 5,278,711 →
Application: 07/963,785 →
Negative Pressure Air Bearing Design
Patent: 5,438,467 →
Application: 07/967,359 →
Actuator Arm Controller for a Storage Device
Patent: 5,268,804 →
Application: 07/971,696 →
Dual Spin Valve Magnetoresistive Sensor
Patent: 5,287,238 →
Application: 07/973,106 →
Etched Suspension System
Patent: 5,353,181 →
Application: 07/974,043 →
System and Method for Servowriting a Magnetic Disk Drive
Patent: 5,339,204 →
Application: 07/989,409 →
In-Situ Texturing of a Thin Film Magnetic Medium
Patent: 5,399,386 →
Application: 07/997,843 →
Thin Film Planarization Process for Fabricating Magnetic Heads Employing a Stitched Pole Structure
Patent: 5,282,308 →
Application: 07/998,173 →
System and Method for Recording Direct Access Storage Device Operating Statistics
Patent: 5,729,397 →
Application: 07/999,502 →
Spindle Grounding Device Using Magnetic Fluid
Patent: 5,367,416 →
Application: 07/999,504 →
Bias Servo Loop for Magneto-Resistive Read/Write Head
Patent: 5,301,080 →
Application: 07/999,628 →
Magnetoresistive Spin Valve Sensor Having a Nonmagnetic Back Layer
Patent: 5,422,571 →
Application: 08/014,981 →
Process of Producing Hydrophobic Titanium Oxide Fine Particle
Patent: 5,411,761 →
Application: 08/018,554 →
Contact Magnetic Recording Disk File with a Magnetoresistive Read Sensor
Patent: 5,455,730 →
Application: 08/019,968 →
Magnetic Recording Medium Having an Underlayer of Low Melting Point Metal Alloy in the Form of Spherically Shaped Structures
Patent: 5,413,835 →
Application: 08/023,413 →
Apparatus and Method for Near Contact Magnetic Recording
Patent: 5,850,317 →
Application: 08/032,511 →
Integrated Transducer-Suspension Assembly for Vertical Recording
Patent: 5,408,373 →
Application: 08/033,302 →
Contact Magnetic Recording Disk File with Improved Head Assembly
Patent: 5,734,519 →
Application: 08/037,064 →
Disk Drive with Passive Multiple Fly Height Slider and Cooperative Disk Pattern
Patent: 6,075,683 →
Application: 08/053,174 →
Method and Apparatus for Detecting Asperities on Magnetic Disks Using Thermal Proximity Imaging
Patent: 5,527,110 →
Application: 08/056,164 →
Apparatus for Controlling Reading and Writing in a Disk Drive
Patent: 5,285,327 →
Application: 08/058,348 →
Shockproof and Portable Disk Storage Apparatus Using Flexible Cable for Shock Absorption
Patent: 5,402,308 →
Application: 08/058,597 →
Multilayered Magnetic Structure Wherein the Magnitude of the Structure Magnetoresistance Is a Function of Nonmagnetic Layer Thickness
Patent: 5,341,118 →
Application: 08/060,462 →
Roll Insensitive Air Bearing Slider
Patent: 5,396,386 →
Application: 08/069,059 →
Barium Ferrite Thin Film for Longitudinal Recording
Patent: 5,492,775 →
Application: 08/069,060 →
Speed Independent, Air Bearing Slider
Patent: 5,424,888 →
Application: 08/082,210 →
Sector Sevor Data Recording Disk Having Data Regions Without Identification (Id) Fields
Patent: 5,500,848 →
Application: 08/082,826 →
Method and Apparatus for Reducing Track Switch Latency in a Disk Drive
Patent: 6,307,705 →
Application: 08/084,337 →
Method and Apparatus for Moving a Disk Drive Actuator Away from a Magnetic Latch
Patent: 5,485,323 →
Application: 08/091,856 →
Magnetic Disk Apparatus Having Recording Heads for Opposite Disk Surfaces Which Are Offset from Each Other
Patent: 5,296,980 →
Application: 08/093,294 →
Hybrid Base for Ultrathin Disk Drives
Patent: 5,414,574 →
Application: 08/099,306 →
Slider with Transverse Ridge Sections Supporting Air-Bearing Pads and Disk Drive Incorporating the Slider
Patent: 5,418,667 →
Application: 08/102,031 →
Motor Starting Method and Apparatus
Patent: 5,418,436 →
Application: 08/109,752 →
Customized Data Recovery Procedures Responsive to Readback Errors and Transducer Head and Disk Parameters
Patent: 5,379,162 →
Application: 08/109,756 →
Optimization of Disk Drive Spindle Speed During Low Power Mode
Patent: 5,412,519 →
Application: 08/112,407 →
Disk Drive with Controlled Actuator Oscillation for Release of Head Carriers
Patent: 5,384,675 →
Application: 08/118,537 →
Method and Apparatus for Controlling Head Position
Patent: 5,404,254 →
Application: 08/127,704 →
Magnetoresistive Sensor with Improved Ferromagnetic Sensing Layer and Magnetic Recording System Using the Sensor
Patent: 5,408,377 →
Application: 08/138,170 →
Thin Film Magnetic Recording Disk Comprising a Metallic Disk Blank, a Substantially Non-Magnetic Ni-Cr-O Film Having a Textured Surface and a Magnetic Film
Patent: 5,436,047 →
Application: 08/138,934 →
Actuator Control Method and Apparatus for Positioning a Transducer Using a Phase Plane Trajectory Trough Function for a Direct Access Storage Device with Estimated Velocity and Position States
Patent: 5,459,624 →
Application: 08/143,561 →
Magnetic Head Slider Process
Patent: 5,442,850 →
Application: 08/146,552 →
Head Flying Height Measuring Apparatus
Patent: 5,475,488 →
Application: 08/148,100 →
Asynchronous Track Code Encodement and Detection for Disk Drive Servo Control System
Patent: 5,442,498 →
Application: 08/148,791 →
Apparatus for Simultaneous Write Head Planarization and Lead Routing
Patent: 5,486,968 →
Application: 08/149,891 →
Magnetic Recording Disk with Equality-Spaced Servo Sectors Exending Across Multiple Data Bands
Patent: 5,440,474 →
Application: 08/150,939 →
Disk Drive with Accerleration Rate Sensing
Patent: 5,521,772 →
Application: 08/159,878 →
Rotary Actuator Disk Drive with Identical Dual-Element Read/Write Transducers
Patent: 5,444,589 →
Application: 08/162,513 →
Disk Drive with Flow-by Chemical Breather Filter
Patent: 5,367,417 →
Application: 08/168,541 →
Self Adaptive Head for Semi-Contact Recording
Patent: 5,488,524 →
Application: 08/172,683 →
Sector Architecture for Fixed Block Disk Drive
Patent: 5,523,903 →
Application: 08/173,541 →
Multilayer Magnetoresistive Sensor
Patent: 5,452,163 →
Application: 08/173,590 →
Method for Optimizing Pieoelectric Surface Asperity Detection Sensor
Patent: 5,450,747 →
Application: 08/174,484 →
Adaptive System for Optimizing Disk Drive Power Consumption
Patent: 5,452,277 →
Application: 08/175,984 →
Disk Drive Apparatus
Patent: 5,483,400 →
Application: 08/176,406 →
Substrate Independent Superpolishing Process and Slurry
Patent: 6,236,542 →
Application: 08/184,718 →
Shorted Magnetoresistive Head Leads for Electrical Overstress and Electrostatic Discharge Protection During Manufacture of a Magnetic Storge System
Patent: 5,465,186 →
Application: 08/187,881 →
Spindle System for a Disk Drive
Patent: 5,430,590 →
Application: 08/195,793 →
Method of Making Load Spring Manufacturing Assembly Having an Electricconductor Carrying and Positioning Tail for Carrying a Conductor Bonded to the Surface of a Load Spring
Patent: 5,419,033 →
Application: 08/198,675 →
Disk File with Clearance and Glide Measurement and Early Head Crash Warning
Patent: 5,410,439 →
Application: 08/200,838 →
Data Detection Methods and Apparatus for a Direct Access Storage Device
Patent: 5,619,539 →
Application: 08/203,413 →
Simplified Method of Making Merged Mr Head
Patent: 5,435,053 →
Application: 08/205,006 →
System for Configuring a Disk Drive as a Master or Slave by Either Cable or Local Selection with Only One Jumper Block or One Switching Device
Patent: 5,519,882 →
Application: 08/205,971 →
Method of Making a Thin Film Merged Mr Head with Aligned Pole Tips
Patent: 5,438,747 →
Application: 08/208,398 →
Disk Drive with Shock-Resistant Rotary Actuator
Patent: 5,448,436 →
Application: 08/212,463 →
Method for Fabericating a Magnetoresistive Sensor Having Antiferromagnetic Layer
Patent: 5,380,548 →
Application: 08/213,883 →
Disk Drive with Profiled Attachment of a Spindle and Hub
Patent: 5,459,628 →
Application: 08/215,240 →
Self-Equalization Method for Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood Disk Drive Systems
Patent: 5,426,541 →
Application: 08/221,321 →
Actuator and File Level Initialization of Magnetoresistive Transducers
Patent: 5,576,908 →
Application: 08/221,813 →
Portable Computer Hard Disk Protective Reflex System
Patent: 35,269 →
Application: 08/223,789 →
Servo Controlled Lubricant Thickness for Near Contact Magnetic Recording
Patent: 5,543,983 →
Application: 08/236,437 →
Direct Mounting System for a Disk Drive
Patent: 6,215,074 →
Application: 08/236,771 →
Data Storage System and Method for Operating a Disk Controller Including Allocating Disk Space for Compressed Data
Patent: 5,574,952 →
Application: 08/241,987 →
Contact Recording Slider for Use in a Lubricant Containing Information Storage System
Patent: 5,801,903 →
Application: 08/245,518 →
Asynchronous Gain Adjustment for Prml Disk Drive Systems
Patent: 5,438,460 →
Application: 08/247,501 →
Integrated Transducer-Suspension Structure for Longitudinal Recording
Patent: 5,486,963 →
Application: 08/252,147 →
Disk Drive with Rectifier Circuit for Parking the Head Carriers on Power Down
Patent: 5,486,957 →
Application: 08/252,304 →
Method and Apparatus for Ramp Load and Unload
Patent: 5,455,723 →
Application: 08/252,667 →
Process for Bonding Lubricants to a Thin Film Storage Media
Patent: 5,545,478 →
Application: 08/255,307 →
Magnetic Head for Recording with Ultra Low Force
Patent: 6,271,995 →
Application: 08/259,370 →
Method of and Apparatus for Unlocking an Actuator in a Disk Storage Apparatus
Patent: 6,198,604 →
Application: 08/268,861 →
Method of Making Integral Transducer-Supension Assemblies for Longitudinal Recording
Patent: 5,454,158 →
Application: 08/270,104 →
Microfabricated Rotary Motion Wobble Motor and Disk Drive Incorporating It
Patent: 5,539,267 →
Application: 08/278,490 →
Damping Post for Reducing Acoustic Noise in a Disk Drive
Patent: 5,598,306 →
Application: 08/282,932 →
Disk File with Air-Bearing Slider Having Skids
Patent: 5,388,017 →
Application: 08/285,608 →
Self Servo Writing File
Patent: 6,040,955 →
Application: 08/287,477 →
Magnetoresistive Sensor Having Exchange-Coupled Stabilization for Transverse Bias Layer
Patent: 5,508,866 →
Application: 08/290,320 →
Magnetoresistive Sensor Having Multilayer Thin Film Structure
Patent: 5,598,308 →
Application: 08/290,324 →
Pole Tip Structure for Thin Film Magnetic Heads
Patent: 5,488,528 →
Application: 08/292,630 →
Method and Apparatus for Measuring the Flying Height of a Magnetic Head Above a Disk Surface at Three Wavelengths
Patent: 5,502,565 →
Application: 08/293,010 →
Transducer Suspension System
Patent: 5,526,205 →
Application: 08/298,475 →
Resilient Compliant Clamp for Data Storage Disk Drives
Patent: 5,486,961 →
Application: 08/298,490 →
Actuator Arm Assembly with Self-Locking Arm
Patent: 5,495,375 →
Application: 08/304,752 →
Velocity Control of Head Load/Unload Mechanism in a Disk Drive Using Dither
Patent: 5,828,522 →
Application: 08/305,109 →
Membrane Seal Secured to Inner and Outer Oscillating Bearing Members for Small Angle Oscillations Within Confined Axial Space
Patent: 6,125,007 →
Application: 08/305,225 →
Method and Apparatus for Cleaning Disks Upon Reaching a Disk Drive Start-Stop Cycle Threshold
Patent: 5,612,830 →
Application: 08/307,138 →
Magnetic Recording Disk with Metal Nitride Texturing Layer
Patent: 5,705,287 →
Application: 08/309,274 →
Method of Fabricating a Magnetoresistive Read Transducer
Patent: 5,458,908 →
Application: 08/310,906 →
Disk Drive Disk Stack Clamp
Patent: 5,548,457 →
Application: 08/314,577 →
Compliant Rail for Shock Protection of a Pcmcia Dasd
Patent: 5,552,946 →
Application: 08/316,696 →
Method and System for Writing a Servo-Pattern on a Storage Medium
Patent: 6,215,606 →
Application: 08/317,129 →
A Method and System for Determining a Radial Positioning Valve Used for Writing Tracks at a Desired Track Pitch
Patent: 5,581,420 →
Application: 08/317,193 →
Pulsed Current Velocity Controlled Head Load Method and Apparatus Which Uses the Back Emf to Control the Generation of Head Actuator Driving Pulses
Patent: 5,615,064 →
Application: 08/317,979 →
System and Method for Monitoring Friction Between Head and Disk to Predict Head Disk Interaction Failure in Direct Access Storage Devices
Patent: 5,539,592 →
Application: 08/319,383 →
Sampled Position Error Signal Demodulation System for Banded Data Disk Drives
Patent: 5,602,692 →
Application: 08/320,021 →
Integral Hub and Disk Clamp for a Disk Drive Storage Device
Patent: 5,486,962 →
Application: 08/322,716 →
Tilt Limiting Internal Actuator Latch for a Data Storage System
Patent: 5,636,090 →
Application: 08/323,915 →
Chemical Breather Filter Assembly
Patent: 5,447,695 →
Application: 08/324,279 →
Silicon Chip with an Integrated Magnetoresistive Head Mounted on a Slider
Patent: 5,587,857 →
Application: 08/324,841 →
Robust Servo for Disk-Shift Compensation in Rotating Storage System
Patent: 5,608,586 →
Application: 08/327,168 →
Method for Locating Physical in a Fixed Block Architecture Embedded Servo Disk File
Patent: 5,438,559 →
Application: 08/327,528 →
Air Bearing Slider Having Projections That Provide Minimal Actual Contact Area
Patent: 5,550,693 →
Application: 08/333,012 →
Partial Mr Sensor Bias Current During Write
Patent: 5,523,898 →
Application: 08/336,611 →
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Hard Disk Burnishing Head
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Spin Valve Sensor with Nickel Oxide Pinning Layer on a Chromium Seed Layer
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