Patent Assignment
Reel/Frame 014830/0957
Security Interest
Recorded: 2004-06-21
Received: 2004-06-29
Pages: 21
Assignors
WESTERN DIGITAL (FREMONT), INC.
Executed: 2003-09-19
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Executed: 2003-09-19
Assignee
GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, AS AGENT
350 S. BEVERLY DRIVE, SUITE 200, BEVERLY HILLS, CA, 90212, UNITED STATES
Covered Properties
(100)
Reducing Estimation Period for Repeatable Runout Errors in a Disk Drive
Application:
10/651,408 →
Disk Drive Employing Enhanced Instruction Cache Management to Facilitate Non-Sequential Immediate Operands
Application:
10/651,412 →
Disk Drive Having an Actuator Arm Assembly That Includes Stamped Actuator Arms
Application:
10/651,411 →
Disk Drives and Actuator Assemblies Having a Pair of Bonded Voice Coil Supporting Arms
Application:
10/632,351 →
Disk Drive Pulse Width Modulating a Voice Coil Motor Using Model Reference Current Feedback
Application:
10/633,095 →
Disk Drive Including a One-Piece Stamped Actuator Arm Assembly and Method of Making Same
Application:
10/633,190 →
Fetch Operations in a Disk Drive Control System
Application:
10/633,090 →
Stamped Actuator Arm Having Longitudinally Spaced-Apart Stamped Protrusions for Supporting a Trace Suspension Flex
Application:
10/633,145 →
Method and Disk Drive for Improving Head Position Accuracy During Track Following Through Real-Time Identification of External Vibration and Monitoring of Write-Unsafe Occurrences
Application:
10/632,434 →
Timing Compensation in a Self-Servowriting System
Application:
10/632,880 →
Cluster-Based Cache Memory Allocation
Application:
10/628,144 →
Range-Based Cache Control System and Method
Application:
10/627,512 →
Disk Drive Employing a Modified Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm to Account for External Vibrations
Application:
10/609,241 →
Disk Drive Controlling Ripple Current of a Voice Coil Motor When Driven by a Pwm Driver
Application:
10/609,240 →
Performance of a Rotary Actuator in a Disk Drive
Application:
10/607,710 →
Disk Drive Cover for Use with a Disk Drive to Provide for Disk Shrouding and Heat Dissipation
Application:
10/608,874 →
Selecting a Track Density for Each Disk Surface of a Disk Drive Based on Head Characteristic
Application:
10/609,066 →
Flex Circuit Assembly with an Integrated Circuit Device Attached to a Base Film with an Underfill Portion and Sealed with a Glob Top Portion
Application:
10/609,062 →
Disk Drive Having an Acoustic Damping Assembly with an Acoustic Barrier Layer
Application:
10/448,487 →
Disk Drive Including a Disk Plate Having a Damping Member
Application:
10/452,569 →
Disk Drive Having an Acoustic Damping Shield Assembly with an Acoustic Barrier Layer
Application:
10/448,488 →
Method for Adaptively Allocating Data Storage Tracks in a Disk Drive to Improve Seek Performance
Application:
10/448,482 →
Method for Storing Format Specific Data in a Microcontroller Execution Memory
Application:
10/449,989 →
Disk Drive and Disk Drive-Containing Device Having Selectively Controllable Spindle Motor Spin Up Profiles
Application:
10/446,886 →
Disk Drive Comprising a Pulse Width Modulated Demand Limit Circuit for Enhancing Power Management During Spin-Down
Application:
10/446,885 →
Method and Apparatus for Self Servowriting of Tracks of a Disk Drive Using an Observer Based on an Equivalent One-Dimensional State Model
Application:
10/427,475 →
Method for Generating a Format Specific Data Structure in a Disk Drive Having Differing Surface Formats
Application:
10/427,760 →
Disk Drive Employing Commutation Phase Modulation and Current Modulation of a Spindle Motor
Application:
10/427,521 →
Head Stack and Actuator Arm Assemblies Including a Bobbin to Stiffen the Coil Portion of an Actuator of a Hard Disk Drive and Disk Drives Including the Same
Application:
10/427,651 →
Method for Calculating a Format Specific Parameter in a Disk Drive Having Differing Surface Formats
Application:
10/427,499 →
Disk Drive Suspension Assembly Including a Base Plate with Mass Reduction Openings at Distal Corners
Application:
10/427,495 →
Disk Drive and Method Having Cost-Effective Storage of the Disk Drive's Internal Program Code
Application:
10/427,484 →
Continuous Separator Plate for Use with a Disk Drive
Application:
10/425,886 →
Disk Drive Having a Disk Plate Body Attached to a Fixed Spindle Shaft of a Spindle Motor
Application:
10/425,897 →
Tag Memory Disk Cache Architecture
Application:
10/419,459 →
Configuring a Disk Drive to Support a Targeted Storage Format
Application:
10/404,990 →
Disk Drive Housing Member Including an Electrically Insulative Coating and Metallic Platings and Method of Manufacturing the Same
Application:
10/404,998 →
Disk Drive Comprising an Offset-Nulling Amplifier for Detecting a Back Emf Voltage of a Voice Coil Motor
Application:
10/405,013 →
Disk Drive Including an Actuator with a Constrained Layer Damper Disposed Upon an Actuator Body Lateral Surface
Application:
10/404,997 →
Disk Drive Including a Stamped Arm Assembly and Method of Making an Actuator Arm Assembly
Application:
10/404,456 →
Method for Mapping a Selected Sector to a Zone on a Disk
Application:
10/404,485 →
Head Stack Assembly Including a Ground Conductive Pad for Grounding a Slider to a Gimbal
Application:
10/386,259 →
Disk Drive Rotary Actuator Assembly Having a Constrained Layer Damper Attached to a Flat Actuator Coil
Application:
10/376,833 →
Disk Drives and Host Devices Including a Resetable Shock Sensor
Application:
10/376,832 →
Disk Drive Comprising Oscillators and Counters for Sensing Current in a Voice Coil Motor
Application:
10/376,821 →
Disk Drive Monitoring a Supply Current to Protect Motor Driver Circuits
Application:
10/377,219 →
Disk Drive Including an Actuator Main Coil and an Actuator Secondary Coil with a Lateral Segment and Method of Operating Same
Application:
10/377,210 →
Disk Drive Employing a Multi-Stage Pulse Width Modulated Voice Coil Motor Driver
Application:
10/377,038 →
Actuator for Use with a Disk Drive Having a Coil Assembly Designed to Aid in Heat Convection from the Coil of the Coil Assembly
Application:
10/377,572 →
Actuator for Use with a Disk Drive Having a Coil Assembly Including a Bobbin to Aid in Heat Convection from the Coil of the Coil Assembly
Application:
10/376,958 →
Disk Drive Having Servo Sectors That Store Repeatable Runout Correction Values and Related Error Correction Code Data
Application:
10/377,078 →
Esd-Protected Slider and Head Gimbal Assembly
Application:
10/377,041 →
Disk Drive Comprising Current Sense Circuitry for a Voice Coil Motor
Application:
10/376,819 →
Cleating Features to Improve Adhesive Interface Between an Actuator Tang and a Tang-Supporting Surface of an Actuator Assembly of a Hard Disk Drive
Application:
10/377,037 →
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 →
Disk Drive Having Internal Data Structures for Efficiently Storing Repeatable Runout Cancellation Information
Application:
10/360,206 →
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 →
System and Method for Fast Acquisition Reporting Using Communication Satellite Range Measurement
Application:
10/191,288 →
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 →