Patent Assignment
Reel/Frame 014506/0765
Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Recorded: 2003-09-15
Received: 2003-09-17
Pages: 43
Assignor
READ-RITE CORPORATION
Executed: 2003-07-31
Assignee
WESTERN DIGITAL (FREMONT), INC.
20511 LAKE FOREST DRIVE, LAKE FOREST, CA, 92630, UNITED STATES
Covered Properties
(86)
Thin Film Recording Head with a Buried Coil Providing a Shortened Yoke and Improved Dimension Control
Application:
10/375,539 →
Magnetic Recording Head with a Side Shield Structure for Controlling Side Reading of Thin Film Read Sensor
Application:
10/364,799 →
Active Fly Height Control Crown Actuator
Application:
10/356,149 →
Method and System for Providing High Sensitivity Giant Magnetoresistive Sensors
Application:
10/349,470 →
Dimple Pivot Post for a Rotary Co-Located Microactuator
Application:
10/326,514 →
Stitched Pole Write Element with a T-Shaped Pole Tip Portion
Application:
10/323,128 →
Double-Nosed Inductive Transducer with Reduced Off-Track Writing
Application:
10/290,880 →
Coil Inductive Writer Having a Low Inductance and Short Yoke Length
Application:
10/277,463 →
Magnetoresistive Sensor with Overlapping Lead Layers Including Alpha Tantalum and Conductive Layers
Application:
10/260,896 →
Magnetoresistive Sensor with Overlapping Leads Having Distributed Current
Application:
10/261,119 →
Gmr Spin Valve Having a Smooth Interface Between Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Layers and Method for Manufacturing Same
Application:
10/243,401 →
Ultra-Short Yoke and Ultra-Low Stack Height Writer and Method of Fabrication
Application:
10/242,091 →
Highly Conductive Lead Adjoining Mr Stripe and Extending Beyond Stripe Height at Junction
Application:
10/226,398 →
Sandwich Diamond-Like Carbon Overcoat for Use in Slider Designs of Proximity Recording Heads
Application:
10/223,992 →
Air Bearing Having a Cavity Patch Surface Coplanar with a Leading Edge Pad Surface
Application:
10/222,042 →
Technique for Reducing Pole Tip Protrusion in a Magnetic Write Head and Gmr Stripe Temperature in an Associated Read Head Structure Utilizing One or More Internal Diffuser Regions
Application:
10/214,044 →
Writer with a Hot Seed Zero Throat and Substantially Flat Top Pole
Application:
10/213,532 →
Thin Film Write Head Having a Laminated, Flat Top Pole with Bottom Shaper and Method of Fabrication
Application:
10/213,339 →
Alpha-Tantalum Lead for Use with Magnetic Tunneling Junctions
Application:
10/192,430 →
Magnetic Tunneling Junction with Improved Power Consumption
Application:
10/192,458 →
Wafer Serialization Manufacturing Process for Read/Write Heads Using Photolithography and Selective Reactive Ion Etching
Application:
10/180,202 →
Double Winding Twin Coil for Thin-Film Head Writer
Application:
10/180,161 →
Airflow Assisted Ramp Loading and Unloading of Sliders in Hard Disk Drives
Application:
10/178,599 →
Uv Curable and Electrically Conductive Adhesive for Bonding Magnetic Disk Drive Components
Application:
10/176,016 →
Methods for Fabricating Redeposition Free Thin Film Cpp Read Sensors
Application:
10/175,399 →
Inductive Write Head Including a Thin High Moment Pedestal Having a Tapered Edge
Application:
10/170,979 →
Pole Tip with Sides Flared at Media-Facing Surface
Application:
10/161,522 →
Method and System for Reducing Thermal Pole Tip Protrusion
Application:
10/159,529 →
Uv Curable and Electrically Conductive Adhesive for Bonding Magnetic Disk Drive Components
Application:
10/155,598 →
Thin Film Read Head Structure with Improved Bias Magnet-to-Magnetoresistive Element Interface and Method of Fabrication
Application:
10/153,067 →
Thin Film Read Head Structure with Improved Bias Magnet-to Magnetoresistive Element Interface and Method of Fabrication
Application:
10/152,909 →
Method and System for Making Tmr Junctions
Application:
10/146,517 →
Magnetically Soft, High Saturation Magnetization Laminates of Iron-Cobalt-Nitrogen and Iron-Nickel
Application:
10/137,030 →
Write Head with High Moment Film Layer Having Tapered Portion Extending Beyond Write Gap Layer
Application:
10/134,799 →
Compact Mr Write Structure
Application:
10/112,685 →
Disk Drive Actuator Arm with Microactuated Read/Write Head Positioning
Application:
10/105,603 →
Electrostatic Microelectromechanical (Mem) Microactuator for Precise Read/Write Head Positioning
Application:
10/101,270 →
Hybrid Diffuser for Minimizing Thermal Pole Tip Protrusion and Reader Sensor Temperature
Application:
10/100,751 →
System and Method for Minimizing Thermal Pole Tip Protrusion
Application:
10/100,790 →
Pedestal Defined Zero Throat Writer Having a Recessed Pedestal
Application:
10/087,505 →
Inductive Transducer with Recessed Leading Pole Layer
Application:
10/086,756 →
Magnetic Ram Cell with Amplification Circuitry and Mram Memory Array Formed Using the Mram Cells
Application:
10/079,116 →
Active Reflection and Anti-Reflection Optical Switch
Application:
10/074,494 →
Shielded Magnetic Ram Cells
Application:
10/074,394 →
Spin Dependent Tunneling Barriers Formed with a Magnetic Alloy
Application:
10/071,798 →
Spin Dependent Tunneling Barriers Doped with Magnetic Particles
Application:
10/071,796 →
Designs of Reference Cells for Magnetic Tunnel Junction (Mtj) Mram
Application:
10/055,118 →
Inductive Transducer with Reduced Pole Tip Protrusion
Application:
10/042,674 →
Method of Making Transducer with Inorganic Nonferromagnetic Apex Region
Application:
10/042,673 →
Flexure Design and Assembly Process for Attachment of Slider Using Solder and Laser Reflow
Application:
10/026,152 →
Flexure Design and Assembly Process for Slider Leading Edge Solder Fillet Bond
Application:
10/026,327 →
Enclosed Piezoelectric Microactuators Coupled Between Head and Suspension
Application:
10/024,115 →
Piezoelectric Microactuators with Substantially Fixed Axis of Rotation and Magnified Stroke
Application:
10/024,438 →
Magnetic Tunnel Junction Mram with Improved Stability
Application:
10/020,663 →
Microactuator with Offsetting Hinges and Method for High-Resolution Positioning of Magnetic Read/Write Head
Application:
10/016,027 →
Designs of Reference Cells for Magnetic Tunnel Junction (Mtj) Mram
Application:
10/017,647 →
Method of Forming a Magnetoresistive Device
Application:
10/013,431 →
Temperature Dependent Write Current Source for Magnetic Tunnel Junction Mram
Application:
10/017,925 →
Magnetic Read/Write Device with Insulated Coil Layer Recessed into Pole
Application:
09/994,436 →
High Sensitivity Common Source Amplifier Mram Cell, Memory Array and Read/Write Scheme
Application:
09/990,425 →
Read/Write Control Circuit for Magnetic Tunnel Junction Mram
Application:
10/011,063 →
Reader/Writer for Magnetic Memory
Application:
09/999,605 →
Inductive Transducer with Stitched Pole Tip and Pedestal Defining Zero Throat Height
Application:
09/999,694 →
Pole Structure to Relieve Adjacent Track Writing
Application:
10/056,936 →
Slider with High Pitch-Stiffness Air Bearing Design
Application:
10/007,430 →
Transducers for Perpendicular Recording with Inductive Cancellation at Mr Sensor
Application:
09/978,435 →
Spin-Dependent Tunneling Sensor Suitable for a Magnetic Memory
Application:
09/969,315 →
Magnetoresistive Sensors Having Submicron Track Widths and Method of Making
Application:
09/963,288 →
Air Bearing Facilitating Load/Unload of a Magnetic Read/Write Head
Application:
09/957,297 →
Perpendicular Recording Write Head Having a Recessed Magnetic Adjunct Pole and Method of Making the Same
Application:
09/952,989 →
Spin-Dependent Tunneling Read/Write Sensor for Hard Disk Drives
Application:
09/943,859 →
Disk Drive Actuator Arm with Microactuated Read/Write Head Positioning
Application:
09/938,088 →
Disk Drive Actuator Arm with Microactuated Read/Write Head Positioning
Application:
09/938,084 →
Write Head for Improved Manufacturability Larger Write Field and Reduced Adjacent Track Erasure
Application:
09/907,152 →
Write Head Architecture for Improved Manufacturability
Application:
09/902,873 →
Ramp assemblies to load/unload heads at the inner diameter of disk drives
Application:
09/886,792 →
Piezoelectric Actuated Optical Switch
Application:
09/884,702 →
Inductive Writer with Flat Top Pole and Pedestal Defined Zero Throat
Application:
09/875,601 →
Shear Mode Multilayered Collocated Micro-Actuator for Dual-Stage Servo Controllers in Disk Drives
Application:
09/875,413 →
Collocated Rotating Flexure Microactuator for Dual-Stage Servo in Disk Drives
Application:
09/860,158 →
Spin Valve Sensors Having Synthetic Antiferromagnet for Longitudinal Bias
Application:
09/828,635 →
Read/Write Head with Coil Tap Having Upper and Lower Portions
Application:
09/810,819 →
Slider for Load/Unload Operation with High Stiffness and Low Unload Force
Application:
09/772,356 →
Communication System
Application:
09/770,819 →
Method and System for Providing a Tape Head Subassembly Structure Having an Integrated Wear Bar and Outrigger Rail
Application:
09/770,941 →
A Method for Providing Pedestal-Defined Zero Throat Writer
Application:
09/769,060 →