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Patent Assignment

Reel/Frame 058982/0556

Release of Security Interest at Reel 038744 Frame 0481

Recorded: 2022-02-08 Pages: 175

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Assignor

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

Executed: 2022-02-03

Assignee

WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

3355 MICHELSON DRIVE, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, 92612

Covered Properties (2047)

Hard Disk Drive Having a Built-in Self-Test for Measuring Readback Signal Distortion

Patent: 6,208,477 →

Application: 08/870,515 →

Head Stack Assembly for a Disk Drive Having a Plastic Inner Sleeve

Patent: 5,894,382 →

Application: 09/002,644 →

Method of Characterizing and Compensating for Read Head Nonlinearity in a Disk Drive

Patent: 5,982,173 →

Application: 09/003,388 →

Disk Drive with Servo Burst Phasing for Improved Linearity and Off-Track Performance with a Wide Reading Transducer

Patent: 6,243,223 →

Application: 09/007,698 →

Mechanical Actuator Latch Subassembly with Overcentering Spring for a Disk Drive

Patent: 5,982,587 →

Application: 09/015,680 →

Disk Drive Having Built-in Self-Test System for Characterizing Performance of the Drive

Patent: 6,292,912 →

Application: 09/032,220 →

Disk Drive with Dual Stage Actuator Radial Offset Calibration

Patent: 6,292,320 →

Application: 09/046,804 →

Disk Drive with Seek Profile Selection Based on Read/Write Operation

Patent: 6,101,065 →

Application: 09/050,519 →

Head Stack Assembly for a Disk Drive Having a Unitary Molded Plastic E-Block

Patent: 6,061,206 →

Application: 09/060,868 →

Disk Drive with Straggered Calibration Burst That Are Disposably Located in Data Regions and Method of Using the Same for Calibrating a Read Head

Patent: 6,198,584 →

Application: 09/070,945 →

Disk Drive with Calibration Bursts That Are Recorded on a Spiral and Method of Recording the Same

Patent: 6,091,564 →

Application: 09/071,390 →

Disk Drive Having a Write Condition Detector for Suspending Write Operations While a Transducer Flying Height Deviates from Its Operating Flying Height

Patent: 6,249,393 →

Application: 09/098,319 →

Servo Track Writer Having a Servo Writer Positioning Arm with a Vibration Damper and a Method of Making a Head Disk Assembly

Patent: 6,147,831 →

Application: 09/100,197 →

Hdd Head Stack Assembly Having Conductive Traces Supported by the Sides of the Actuator Arm to Extend in Planar Arrays

Patent: 5,991,123 →

Application: 09/102,595 →

Faster Spin-Down Operation in a Disk Drive by Utilizing Pulsed Braking

Patent: 6,160,368 →

Application: 09/102,601 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Writing a Data Block to a Data Sector Following a Defective Servo Sector

Patent: 6,078,452 →

Application: 09/102,982 →

Disk Drive Including a Recording Surface Employing Servo Zones with Banded Data Zones

Patent: 6,262,857 →

Application: 09/103,674 →

Disk Drive Which Efficiently Stores Zone Parameter Sets for a Plurality of Disk Surfaces

Patent: 6,195,218 →

Application: 09/105,122 →

Disk Drive Having Two Tiered Defect List Comprising Marginal and Reserved Data Sectors

Patent: 6,223,303 →

Application: 09/106,830 →

Faster Access Time in a Disk Drive by Utilizing Increased Vcm Potential Voltage

Patent: 6,181,502 →

Application: 09/108,597 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Spinning Down Its Spindle Motor to Reduce the Time Required for Subsequently Spinning It Up

Patent: 6,198,590 →

Application: 09/120,854 →

Buffered Nitrogenated Carbon Overcoat for Data Recording Disks and Method for Manufacturing the Same

Patent: 6,136,403 →

Application: 09/122,195 →

Disk Drive Having Data-Guarding Firmware

Patent: 6,327,106 →

Application: 09/138,805 →

Disk Drive Capable of Autonomously Evaluating and Adapting the Frequency Response of Its Servo Control System

Patent: 6,204,988 →

Application: 09/138,841 →

Disk Drive Having a Pivot Assembly Which Defines a Knife Edge Facing in a Direction Perpendicular to the Longitudinal Axis of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,046,889 →

Application: 09/160,366 →

Disk Drive Including Dc to Dc Voltage Converter for Increasing Voltage to Its Spindle Motor and Vcm

Patent: 6,342,984 →

Application: 09/162,657 →

Digital-To-Analog Converter Having High Resolution and High Bandwidth

Patent: 6,052,076 →

Application: 09/172,938 →

Disk Drive Including Strain Transducer for Detecting Mechanical Shock

Patent: 6,417,979 →

Application: 09/177,898 →

Disk Drive with Seek Profile Selection Based on a Queued Vs. Non-Queued Environment

Patent: 6,195,222 →

Application: 09/186,786 →

Controller with Automatic Generation of Linked List of Data Transfer Descriptors for Sequential Commands, with Linked List Being Used for Execution of Sequential Data Transfers

Patent: 6,205,494 →

Application: 09/215,414 →

Inertial Latch Having an Interposer That Prevents the Head from Leaving the Ramp Load During a Shock Event

Patent: 6,185,074 →

Application: 09/222,535 →

Disk Drive Employing Read Channel Ic with Common Port for Data and Servo

Patent: 6,278,568 →

Application: 09/223,475 →

Water Slide Suspension Assembly Having a Stiffened Vertically Offset Lift Tab

Patent: 6,151,197 →

Application: 09/223,489 →

Disk Drive with Zero Read Offset in Reserved Area and Method of Making Same

Patent: 6,320,718 →

Application: 09/227,101 →

Disk Drive Having a Cache Portion for Storing Write Data Segments of a Predetermined Length

Patent: 6,408,357 →

Application: 09/232,746 →

Disk Drive with Method of Constructing a Continuous Position Signal and Constrained Method of Linearizing Such Position Signal While Maintaining Continuity

Patent: 6,369,974 →

Application: 09/248,087 →

Disk Drive Having an I.D. Ramp Loading System Employing Multiple-Function Spacer Structure

Patent: 6,292,333 →

Application: 09/248,923 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Spinning Down Its Spindle Motor to Reduce the Time Required for Spinning It Down and Subsequently Spinning It Up

Patent: 6,104,153 →

Application: 09/256,645 →

Disk Drive Employing Power Source Modulation for Reduciing Power Consumption

Patent: 6,285,521 →

Application: 09/276,255 →

Defective Data Site Management Through a Shared Defect Management Table

Patent: 6,279,089 →

Application: 09/290,457 →

Rewrite with Embedded Reassign for Data Recovery from Marginally Defective Data Sites on a Data Storage Device

Patent: 6,384,999 →

Application: 09/290,460 →

Disk Drive Employing State Variable Trap Registers for Providing Stored Servo and User Data State Variables to Sampled-Data Channel

Patent: 6,178,056 →

Application: 09/293,487 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Monitoring Transducer Flying Height to Retire Defective Data Site on Recording Surface

Patent: 6,411,458 →

Application: 09/298,363 →

On the Fly Write Reallocation

Patent: 6,263,459 →

Application: 09/303,089 →

Temperature Monitoring Method of a Disk Drive Voice Coil Motor from a Traveled Distance

Patent: 6,369,972 →

Application: 09/311,913 →

Spindle Motor Flange Land Portion

Patent: 6,208,486 →

Application: 09/312,310 →

Printed Circuit Assembly Having Integrated Resistors for Terminating Data and Control Lines of a Host-Peripheral Interface

Patent: 6,480,020 →

Application: 09/314,277 →

Disk Drive Employing Off-Line Scan to Collect Selection-Control Data for Subsequently Deciding Whether to Verify After Write

Patent: 6,289,484 →

Application: 09/314,871 →

Disk Drive Employing Vector Addition of Primary Phase Write Clock Signals for Generating Secondary Phase Write Clock Signal

Patent: 6,337,778 →

Application: 09/318,477 →

Method of Continuously Recording Servo Bursts Along One Continuous, Single Helix Spiral

Patent: 6,507,450 →

Application: 09/330,756 →

Disk Drive Including N-Current Preamplifier for Generating N-Independently Controlled Write Currents

Patent: 6,310,740 →

Application: 09/342,670 →

Servowriter Employing Method of Unlatching Actuator Arm Using Vcm Voltage Limiting Circuit to Limit Actuator Arm Velocity

Patent: 6,498,698 →

Application: 09/342,793 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Unlatching Actuator Arm Using Vcm Voltage Limiting Circuit to Limit Actuator Arm Velocity

Patent: 6,496,324 →

Application: 09/342,795 →

Hard Disk Drive Infant Mortality Test

Patent: 6,408,406 →

Application: 09/387,677 →

Disk Drive Employing a Multiple-Input Sequence Detector Responsive to Reliability Metrics to Improve a Retry Operation

Patent: 6,405,342 →

Application: 09/393,511 →

Disk Drives and Disk Drive-Containing Devices Having Selectively Controllable and/or Adaptive Quiet and High Performance Modes of Operation

Patent: 6,757,481 →

Application: 09/401,069 →

Method of Operating a Disk Drive for Reading and Writing Audiovisual Data on an Urgent Basis

Patent: 6,690,882 →

Application: 09/406,327 →

Headerless Disk Drive Comprising Repeatable Runout (Rro) Correction Values Recorded at a User Data Rate

Patent: 6,493,173 →

Application: 09/436,930 →

Disk Drive Including a Vibration Damping System Having a Compressible Foam and Mass Damper Fixed Adjacent to the Outer Surface of a Printed Circuit Board for Reducing Noise and Vibration

Patent: 6,288,866 →

Application: 09/444,016 →

Control and Observation of Physical Devices, Equipment and Processes by Multiple Users Over Computer Networks

Patent: 6,499,054 →

Application: 09/454,178 →

Method of Operating a Disk Drive for Writing to an Addressable Location After Detecting That a Head Is Within a Safe-to-Write Window

Patent: 6,445,524 →

Application: 09/458,527 →

Error Rate Measurement in Disk Drive by Weighting Data-Recovery Procedures

Patent: 6,317,850 →

Application: 09/484,059 →

Disk Drive with Unified Channel-Disk Controller Bus for Transmitting User Data, Servo Data, and Register Data

Patent: 6,415,349 →

Application: 09/489,856 →

Disk Drive Having a Channel Circuit Which Receives a Read Signal Representing Data in a Data Sector and Data in a Servo Sector in a First Order and Demodulates the Read Signal to Provide Data Sector Data and Servo-Sector Data in a Second Order

Patent: 6,580,573 →

Application: 09/490,330 →

Method of Calibrating a Write Current-Setting for Servo Writing a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,525,892 →

Application: 09/493,751 →

Disk Drive Comprising an Actuator Driver Circuit for Retracting a Head Independent of a Servo Microprocessor When a Spindle Speed Fault Mode Is Detected

Patent: 6,476,996 →

Application: 09/505,009 →

Disk Drive Employing a Non-Vilatile Semiconductor Memory for Storing Read Channel Parameter Calibrated for the Disk Drive Used to Recover Disk Channel Parameter

Patent: 6,480,349 →

Application: 09/513,316 →

DISK DRIVE WITH FEED-FORWARD CONTROL PATH THAT RECEIvES A REFERENCE POSITION SIGNAL TO APPLY A FEED-FORWARD COMMAND EFFORT AT A RATE GREATER THAN A SERVO SAMPLING RATE

Patent: 6,614,618 →

Application: 09/538,931 →

Disk Drive with Adaptive Control Path That Produces an Adaptive Control Effort Based on a Characterized Deviation Between Actual and Modeled Plant Response

Patent: 6,614,615 →

Application: 09/539,349 →

Preamplifier Circuit Configurable to Allow Simultaneous Read and Write Operations for Self-Servo Writing a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,693,760 →

Application: 09/540,445 →

Self-Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Propagating Interleaved Sets of Timing Clocks and Servo Bursts During Alternate Time Intervals

Patent: 6,600,620 →

Application: 09/541,136 →

Disk Drive Employing Spindle Motor Commutation Time Variation for Reducing Acoustic Noise

Patent: 6,493,169 →

Application: 09/551,925 →

Disk Drive Comprising Spin Down Circuitry Having a Power Clamp Circuit for Enhancing Power and Braking Control

Patent: 6,549,361 →

Application: 09/552,400 →

Cache Control System and Method Having Hardware-Based Tag Record Allocation

Patent: 6,725,329 →

Application: 09/552,402 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Demand Limit Circuit for Enhancing Power Management During Spin Down

Patent: 6,574,062 →

Application: 09/552,403 →

Tag Memory Disk Cache Architecture

Patent: 6,553,457 →

Application: 09/552,404 →

Disk Drive Employing Method of Spinning Up Spindle Motor Including Detecting Bemf Polarity Change for Selecting Initial Commutation State

Patent: 6,534,936 →

Application: 09/560,918 →

Publication: US 2002/0084760

Conflict Detection for Queued Command Handling in a Disk Drive Controller

Patent: 6,490,635 →

Application: 09/561,228 →

Method of making a balance-compensated rotary actuator based upon track-follow performance of a rotatable test head stack assembly portion

Patent: 6,349,464 →

Application: 09/584,837 →

Disk Drive Having Separate Motion Sensors for Base and Actuator

Patent: 6,674,600 →

Application: 09/585,101 →

Accelerated Media Scan Method for Detection of Disk Drive Handling Damage

Patent: 6,691,255 →

Application: 09/585,128 →

Disk Drive Comprising Spin Down Circuitry Having a Programmable Signal Generator for Enhancing Power and Braking Control

Patent: 6,577,465 →

Application: 09/585,244 →

Disk Drive Comprising Spin Down Circuitry Having a Current Limit Circuit for Enhancing Power and Braking Control

Patent: 6,549,359 →

Application: 09/585,805 →

Repeatable runout cancellation in sectored servo disk drive positioning system

Patent: 6,310,742 →

Application: 09/603,809 →

Vcr Webification

Patent: 6,732,158 →

Application: 09/608,685 →

Cache Control Method and System for Mixed Streaming and Non-Streaming Data

Patent: 6,606,717 →

Application: 09/628,892 →

Method and Apparatus for Rro Learning Before and After Shipping to Cancel Rro in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,545,835 →

Application: 09/652,857 →

Disk Drive Employing a Multi-Layer Noise-Dampening Hda Cover

Patent: 6,529,345 →

Application: 09/652,859 →

Communication Channel Employing an Ecc Decoder Enhanced by Likely Error Events of a Trellis Sequence Detector

Patent: 6,694,477 →

Application: 09/675,852 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Multiple-Input Sequence Detector Selectively Biased by Bits of a Decoded Ecc Codedword

Patent: 6,604,220 →

Application: 09/675,853 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Cover Shaped to Improve Radial and Axial Shrouding

Patent: 6,922,308 →

Application: 09/676,405 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Cover Having Slots Near a Shaft Aperture for Reducing Resonance

Patent: 6,466,398 →

Application: 09/676,634 →

Method and Apparatus for Rro Learning on Alternate Tracks Before and After Shipping to Cancel Rro in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,707,635 →

Application: 09/684,561 →

Disk Drive Comprising Vcm Stall Detector for Velocity Control of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,867,944 →

Application: 09/703,689 →

Disk Drive Employing Vcm Demand Current to Calibrate Vcm Ir Voltage for Velocity Control of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,690,536 →

Application: 09/704,175 →

Voice Coil Motor Comprising a Voice Coil Wrapped Around a Rotary Voice Coil Yoke Comprising a Lo W Reluctance End and a High Reluctance End

Patent: 6,462,914 →

Application: 09/704,188 →

Disk Drive Employing Seek Time Vcm Ir Voltage Calibration for Velocity Control of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,795,268 →

Application: 09/704,195 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Plastic Molded Crash Stop with Embedded Magnet for Latching an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,535,358 →

Application: 09/728,293 →

Method and System for Testing Reliability Attributes in Disk Drives

Patent: 6,651,192 →

Application: 09/728,545 →

Disk Drive Control System and Method for Determining the Temperature of an Actuator Coil

Patent: 6,731,450 →

Application: 09/728,550 →

Disk Drive Having First-Written Servo Wedge Marked and Method for Forming Marked Servo Wedges

Patent: 6,760,186 →

Application: 09/728,551 →

Vibration Cancellation in a Disk Drive by Using an Acceleration Sensor and Adaptively Adjusting Its Gain to Minimize External Acceleration Effects

Patent: 6,914,743 →

Application: 09/728,626 →

Method for Minimizing Adjacent Track Data Loss During a Write Operation in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,462,896 →

Application: 09/728,627 →

Seek Distance Dependent Variable Max Vcm Seek Current to Control Thermal Rise in Vcm's

Patent: 6,724,564 →

Application: 09/728,630 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Snap-on Disk Clamp

Patent: 6,757,132 →

Application: 09/751,898 →

Disk Drive for Storing Sector-Reconstruction Sectors and for Storing a Sector-Reconstruction Status in Sectors Distributed Around a Disk

Patent: 6,687,850 →

Application: 09/773,939 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Bistable Latch with Bi-Level Grooves and a Spring Restraining Force

Patent: 6,469,871 →

Application: 09/773,967 →

Disk Drive Employing Adaptive Feed-Forward Vibration Compensation to Enhance a Retry Operation

Patent: 6,538,839 →

Application: 09/773,970 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Motor Driver Ic Employing a Serial Interface for Initiating the Transmission of Real-Time Status Data to a Controller Ic

Patent: 6,560,056 →

Application: 09/775,158 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Voice Coil Motor Having a Yoke Wuth a Multiple-Bend Magnetic Flux Conductor

Patent: 6,529,351 →

Application: 09/775,161 →

Method and Disk Drive for Improving Head Position Accuracy During Track Following Through Real-Time Identification of External Vibration

Patent: 6,693,764 →

Application: 09/775,256 →

Disk Drive Employing Separate Read and Write Repeatable Runout Estimated Values for a Head Having a Read Element Offset from a Write Element

Patent: 6,657,810 →

Application: 09/796,837 →

Disk Drive Employing a Sync Mark Detector Comprising a Matched Filter and a Dual Polarity Correlator

Patent: 6,603,622 →

Application: 09/796,838 →

Disk Drive with Efficient Coil Temperature Estimation

Patent: 6,791,785 →

Application: 09/796,920 →

Disk Drive That Discerns the Polarity of a Head Signal from a Sync Mark to Enhance Data Detection

Patent: 6,639,748 →

Application: 09/796,933 →

Disk Drive for Detecting a Polarity Error of a Magnetoresistive Head by Detecting a Sync Mark

Patent: 6,369,969 →

Application: 09/797,446 →

Method and Disk Drive for Improving Data Storage Capacity of Data Tracks Using Push-Down Wedges

Patent: 6,710,953 →

Application: 09/823,738 →

Pivot Bearing Cartridge Having Inner and Outer Ball Bearing Sets

Patent: 6,731,470 →

Application: 09/823,740 →

Spindle Motor Having Inner and Outer Ball Bearing Sets

Patent: 6,741,428 →

Application: 09/823,743 →

Disk Drive Employing Field Calibration Based on Marginal Sectors

Patent: 6,611,393 →

Application: 09/846,043 →

Shock Isolation Bearings and Travel Limit Gaps in a Spindle Motor and Disk Drive Using the Same

Patent: 6,961,212 →

Application: 09/846,054 →

Disk Drive Including a Recording Surface Employing Servo Zones Recorded at a Channel Frequency Different from Data Zones

Patent: 6,441,981 →

Application: 09/846,056 →

Disk Drive for Updating Operating Zone Parameters with Adapted Zone Parameters Calibrated in the Field

Patent: 6,690,523 →

Application: 09/846,075 →

Mobile Device and Disk Drive Restricted from Reading a Data Storage Zone in a Mobile Environment

Patent: 7,099,099 →

Application: 09/846,076 →

Disk Drive for Relocating a Block of Data Sectors Near a Defective Servo Sector to Expedite Write Operations

Patent: 6,654,193 →

Application: 09/846,077 →

Spindle Motor Having Spindle Motor Stator with Laminate Layers for Increased Head Stack Assembly Access

Patent: 6,979,931 →

Application: 09/846,078 →

Spindle Motor Having Spindle Motor Stator for Increased Head Stack Assembly Access

Patent: 6,728,063 →

Application: 09/846,749 →

Disk Drive Storing Test Pattern in Calibration Sectors That Are Longer Than User Data Sectors for Zone Parameter Calibration

Patent: 6,545,830 →

Application: 09/846,805 →

Mobile Device and Disk Drive Restricted from Writing a Data Storage Zone in a Mobile Environment

Patent: 6,661,597 →

Application: 09/846,843 →

Mobile Device Comprising a Disk Storage System Protected by a Pressure-Sensitive Detector

Patent: 6,580,574 →

Application: 09/866,001 →

Mobile Device Comprising a Disk Storage System Protected by a Motion Detector

Patent: 6,603,620 →

Application: 09/866,203 →

Mobile Device and Disk Drive Having a Seek Current Profile Responsive to an Environment Signal

Patent: 6,657,811 →

Application: 09/866,204 →

Head Stack Assembly Shipping Comb with Temporary Locating Feature for Internal Head Disk Assembly Build Process and Disk Drive Manufactured Using the Same

Patent: 6,687,093 →

Application: 09/871,852 →

Disk Drive Having Airflow Suppressor Comb for Reduced Disk Rotation Induced Airflow

Patent: 6,624,966 →

Application: 09/872,193 →

Disk Drive Having Airflow Suppressor Comb with Curved Extension for Reduced Disk Rotation Induced Airflow

Patent: 6,560,065 →

Application: 09/872,236 →

Mobile Device Having Disk Drive Including a Data Storage Zone with a Data Track Pitch Configured for Use in a Mobile Environment

Patent: 6,628,473 →

Application: 09/872,237 →

Method for Predictive Power Management for Operating a Disk Drive in a Mobile Device to Optimize Power Usage

Patent: 6,892,313 →

Application: 09/887,583 →

Disk Drive Having Breather Shroud

Patent: 6,618,222 →

Application: 09/887,748 →

Method and System for Preventing Data Loss from an Off-Track Write Condition in a Disk Drive by Rewriting Data Buffered from an Adjacent Track

Patent: 6,781,780 →

Application: 09/887,749 →

Spindle Motor Having Stator Rim Formed of Curved Arc Segments

Patent: 6,594,111 →

Application: 09/920,576 →

Method of Manufacturing and Disk Drive Produced by Measuring the Read and Write Widths and Varying the Track Pitch in the Servo- Writer

Patent: 6,885,514 →

Application: 09/920,665 →

Method and Disk Drive for Shock Estimation and Write Termination Control

Patent: 6,714,371 →

Application: 09/944,677 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Programmable Inverting Voltage Regulator Configured Relative to the Disk Drive's Mode of Operation

Patent: 6,788,483 →

Application: 09/945,076 →

Disk Drive Comprising an Integrator for Controlling a Vcm Actuator and Transformer for Controlling a Piezoelectric Actuator

Patent: 6,747,837 →

Application: 09/945,404 →

Disk Drive Including Damping Member Disposed Upon Latch for Damping Tang-to-Latch Impact and Mitigating Tang-to-Latch Contact

Patent: 6,704,167 →

Application: 09/945,406 →

Method for Reducing Position Error Signal in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,798,592 →

Application: 09/945,563 →

Servo Settling by Utilization of a Bias Torque Offset Value Which Depends on the Memory of Previous Seek Operations

Patent: 6,738,220 →

Application: 09/967,790 →

Method for Reducing Written-in Runout During Servo Track Writing of a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,894,861 →

Application: 09/967,828 →

Erasing Disk Surface by Direct Current Applied on a Helical Trajectory to Minimize Erase Time

Patent: 6,906,880 →

Application: 09/967,837 →

System and Method for Fail-Over Switching in a Disk Storage Medium

Patent: 6,898,730 →

Application: 09/996,686 →

Phase Locked Loop Employing a Fractional Frequency Synthesizer as a Variable Oscillator

Patent: 6,710,951 →

Application: 09/999,888 →

Method for Reducing an Effect of Vibration on a Disk Drive During a Track Following Operation by Adjusting an Adaptive-Filter Gain Applied to an Acceleration Sensor Signal

Patent: 6,710,966 →

Application: 10/003,943 →

Disk Drive for Receiving Setup Data in a Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (Smart) Command

Patent: 6,895,500 →

Application: 10/004,231 →

Multi-Axis Accelerometer Comprising a Mass Suspended by Springs Above an Optical Sensor

Patent: 6,568,268 →

Application: 10/004,433 →

Shock Event Error Logging in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,967,804 →

Application: 10/008,763 →

Method for Allocating Disk Drive Spindle Motors Based on an Operating Characteristic

Patent: 6,792,669 →

Application: 10/008,764 →

Publication: US 2003/0103285

Disk Drive Comprising an Asynchronous Partition Located on a Disk Between Two Isochronous Partitions

Patent: 6,986,007 →

Application: 10/010,671 →

Slider Having a Textured Air Bearing Surface, Head Stack Assembly and Disk Drive Using Same

Patent: 6,937,439 →

Application: 10/010,672 →

Disk Drive with Disks Having Different Disk Stiffness, Thickness and Material Combinations

Patent: 6,791,791 →

Application: 10/010,673 →

Method for Recovering from Shock Events Occurring to a Disk Drive During Data Write Operations to Improve Data Reliability

Patent: 6,735,033 →

Application: 10/015,147 →

Disk Drive Including Disk Spacer with Different Side Surface Patterns

Patent: 6,707,637 →

Application: 10/022,152 →

Disk Drive Including Disk Clamp with Non-Symmetric Engaged Fastener Holes and Fastener Torque

Patent: 6,690,637 →

Application: 10/022,155 →

Method and Apparatus for Determining Track Density During a Servo-Track Writing Operation

Patent: 6,788,480 →

Application: 10/028,329 →

Air Bearing Slider Including Side Rail Shallow Recessed Surfaces Extending Along Trailing Portions of Leading Side Air Bearing Surfaces

Patent: 6,661,612 →

Application: 10/035,762 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Ratchet Arm Applied to a Disk and Disengaged Through Windage Generated by the Disk Rotating

Patent: 6,844,996 →

Application: 10/062,676 →

Adjusting Seek Current Profile on the Fly

Patent: 6,781,787 →

Application: 10/062,835 →

Disk Drive Employing a Spindle Motor Comprising a Hub Ratchet Arm Disengaged Through Angular Velocity

Patent: 6,801,389 →

Application: 10/062,836 →

Disk Drive Employing a Spindle Motor Comprising a Locking Spring Arm Disengaged Through Stator Coil Flux

Patent: 6,867,946 →

Application: 10/062,837 →

Disk Drive Including Disk Plate Including Head and/or Arm Limiter Portions for Modifying Airflow Adjacent a Disk

Patent: 6,781,791 →

Application: 10/062,951 →

Disk Drive Having Disk Drive Housing Including Airflow Suppressor Portion

Patent: 6,972,926 →

Application: 10/062,955 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Pattern Dependent Overshoot Circuit for Controlling Write Current Overshoot

Patent: 6,826,003 →

Application: 10/062,963 →

Method and Apparatus for Selecting Servo Track Writing Speed

Patent: 6,751,041 →

Application: 10/066,192 →

Disk Drive for Circular Self Servo Writing and Spiral Self Servo Writing Using Prewritten Reference Servo Bursts

Patent: 6,977,789 →

Application: 10/066,208 →

Method and Apparatus for Determining Operational Spindle Rotation Rate in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,791,782 →

Application: 10/066,223 →

Disk Drive Using Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm to Facilitate Write Verify Operations

Patent: 6,854,022 →

Application: 10/080,780 →

Disk Drive Employing Data Averaging Techniques During Retry Operations to Facilitate Data Recovery

Patent: 7,136,244 →

Application: 10/080,784 →

Suspension Design for Attenuation of Disk Flutter Induced Track Mis-Registration of a Hard Disk Drive by Manipulation of Load Beam Pitch Angle

Patent: 6,965,500 →

Application: 10/080,786 →

Suspension Design for Attenuation of Disk Flutter Induced Track Mis-Registration of a Hard Disk Drive by Manipulation of the Hinge and/or Load Beam

Patent: 7,113,371 →

Application: 10/080,849 →

Computer System Comprising a Host Connected to a Disk Drive Employing State Variable Trap Registers for Providing Stored Servo and User Data State Variables to Sampled-Data Channel

Patent: 6,487,032 →

Application: 10/083,745 →

Computer System Comprising a Host Connected to a Disk Drive Employing Read Channel Ic with Common Port for Data and Servo

Patent: 6,519,104 →

Application: 10/084,819 →

Pivot Bearing Cartridge Including Ball Bearing Set and Magnet Element for Ball Bearing Set Pre-Loading

Patent: 6,791,801 →

Application: 10/086,469 →

Disk Drive Having a Shroud Assembly for Shielding at Least One of a Flex Cable and an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,865,055 →

Application: 10/086,470 →

Presilicon Disk Model for Design, Development and Validation

Patent: 7,031,902 →

Application: 10/087,550 →

Accelerometer Signal Processor Comprising Variable Oscillators and Counters

Patent: 6,484,577 →

Application: 10/087,893 →

Method for Setting a Power Operating Mode Transition Interval of a Disk Drive in a Mobile Device Based on Application Category

Patent: 7,120,806 →

Application: 10/105,493 →

Disk Drive Comprising Asynchronous/Synchronous Gain Control for Fault Tolerant Detection of Servo Sync Mark After Head Switch

Patent: 6,882,486 →

Application: 10/112,197 →

Spindle Motor Including Stator with Magnetic Flux Guides

Patent: 6,545,382 →

Application: 10/112,259 →

Using an External Spiral Servo Writer to Write Spiral Reference Patterns to a Disk to Facilitate Writing Product Servo Bursts to the Disk

Patent: 6,992,848 →

Application: 10/112,282 →

Method for Adjusting a Delay Time for Opening a Servo Sector Detection Window in a Disk Drive Having a Spiral Track

Patent: 6,920,004 →

Application: 10/112,333 →

Disk Drive Base Design for Modifying Airflow Generated from Rotation of Disk

Patent: 6,728,062 →

Application: 10/112,336 →

Reduced Acoustics Treatment Spindle Motor for a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,751,051 →

Application: 10/112,414 →

Method for Seeking in a Magnetic Disk Drive Having a Spiral Track

Patent: 6,735,041 →

Application: 10/112,434 →

Disk Drive for Dynamically Allocating Memory Accessed Concurrently by a Host Interface and a Disk Interface to Facilitate Large Host Commands

Patent: 6,745,283 →

Application: 10/123,967 →

Method for Determining Repeatable Runout Cancellation Values in a Magnetic Disk Drive Using Filtering

Patent: 6,975,480 →

Application: 10/125,007 →

Disk Drive Having a Sector Clock That Is Synchronized to the Angular Speed of the Spindle Motor

Patent: 7,126,776 →

Application: 10/125,131 →

Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Throughput in the Manufacture of Disk Drives by Categorizing the Disk Drives Based Upon Measured Disk Pack Imbalance

Patent: 6,897,393 →

Application: 10/136,716 →

Disk Drive for Optimizing Write Current Settings Relative to Drive Operating Characteristics and Ambient Temperature Readings

Patent: 6,995,933 →

Application: 10/136,760 →

Split Vcm Actuator

Patent: 6,847,504 →

Application: 10/137,227 →

Aerodynamic Base Design for Tmr Reduction

Patent: 6,891,696 →

Application: 10/137,228 →

Air Bearing Slider with an Angularly Disposed Channel Formed Between a Side Rail and a Leading Side Air Bearing Surface

Patent: 6,744,599 →

Application: 10/137,477 →

Disk Drive Having Guide-Vanes

Patent: 7,031,104 →

Application: 10/137,481 →

Dependently Adjusting at Least Three Operating Levels of a Disk Drive by Dependently Adjusting a Plurality of Disk Drive Parameters

Patent: 6,892,249 →

Application: 10/138,070 →

Disk Drive Employing a Constant Contact Inertial Latch

Patent: 7,035,053 →

Application: 10/160,317 →

Disk Drive Caching Initial Host Requested Data in Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory to Reduce Start-Up Time of a Host Computer

Patent: 6,968,450 →

Application: 10/160,682 →

Adaptively Modifying a Read Caching Algorithm Based Upon the Detection of a Vibration State Within a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 6,782,449 →

Application: 10/160,752 →

System and Method for Processing Track Identifier Errors to Mitigate Head Instability in Data Storage Devices

Patent: 7,184,230 →

Application: 10/160,954 →

Disk Drive Employing Off-Line Sector Verification and Relocation of Marginal Sectors Discovered During Read Error Recovery Procedure

Patent: 7,050,252 →

Application: 10/160,955 →

Disk Drive and Method for Implementing Nonstandard Disk-Drive Commands on a Serial Ata Interface That Only Supports Standard Ata Disk-Drive Commands

Patent: 6,895,455 →

Application: 10/183,207 →

Disk Drive Having Cover Assembly Which Compresses a Foam Member Between Substantially Planar Rigid Members

Patent: 6,950,275 →

Application: 10/183,208 →

Method of Assembling a Disk Drive by Electrically Grounding a Disk Drive Cover

Patent: 7,000,309 →

Application: 10/184,610 →

Methods, Systems and Devices for Converting the Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Disk Drive Spindle Motor into Electrical Energy to Charge a Rechargeable Battery

Patent: 6,865,049 →

Application: 10/184,738 →

Back Emf Voltage Transducer/Generator to Convert Mechanical Energy to Electrical Energy for Use in Small Disk Drives

Patent: 6,930,848 →

Application: 10/185,932 →

Method of Modifying on-Track Declaration Algorithm of a Disk Drive Based Upon Detection of External Vibration Condition

Patent: 6,795,262 →

Application: 10/185,970 →

Repeatable Runout Determination Within a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 6,847,502 →

Application: 10/185,983 →

Disk Drive Unlatching an Actuator Arm at a First Spindle Speed During a First Spin-Up Mode and a Second Spindle Speed During a Second Spin-Up Mode

Patent: 6,798,603 →

Application: 10/209,705 →

Disk Drive Comprising Control Circuitry Powered by a Secondary Voltage Supplied by a Center Tap of a Spindle Motor During a Normal Operating Mode

Patent: 6,876,508 →

Application: 10/209,734 →

Method of Operating a Disk Drive with a Slider at Loading and Unloading Fly Heights Greater Than an Operational Fly Height

Patent: 6,912,103 →

Application: 10/209,763 →

Serial Ata Disk Drive Having a Parallel Ata Test Interface and Method

Patent: 6,976,190 →

Application: 10/209,804 →

Disk Drive Having a Low Inertia and Narrow Angle Coil

Patent: 6,710,981 →

Application: 10/209,828 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Multi-Phase Spindle Motor Having a Center Tap Connectable to a Secondary Supply Voltage

Patent: 7,006,320 →

Application: 10/210,396 →

Decreasing Spin Up Time in a Disk Drive by Adjusting a Duty Cycle of a Spindle Motor Pwm Signal to Maintain Constant Average Input Current

Patent: 6,967,458 →

Application: 10/210,399 →

Adaptively Estimating a Read Access Time to a Second Track Based Upon the Binned Radial Position of the Second Track Within a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 7,088,538 →

Application: 10/210,554 →

Disk Drive Including a Rotary Actuator with Thermo-Conductive Coil Support Element and Coil

Patent: 6,801,404 →

Application: 10/232,632 →

Disk Drive and Method for Data Transfer Initiated by Nonstandard Disk-Drive Commands on a Serial Ata Interface That Only Supports Standard Ata Disk-Drive Commands

Patent: 6,735,650 →

Application: 10/232,638 →

Disk Drive Including a Filter Element Disposed Along a Disk Surface for Filtering Disk Rotation Induced Airflow

Patent: 6,826,009 →

Application: 10/232,639 →

Method and Apparatus for Self Servowriting of Tracks of a Disk Drive Using an Observer Based on an Equivalent One-Dimensional State Model

Patent: 6,924,961 →

Application: 10/232,640 →

Disk Drive Having a Head Disk Assembly Enclosure Including Insert Molded Components

Patent: 6,900,961 →

Application: 10/232,641 →

Production Line Spindle Control Circuit Employing a Sinusoidal Driver with Back Emf Control

Patent: 6,825,622 →

Application: 10/232,860 →

Disk Drive Enabling Simultaneous Assembly of Hsa and Disk Pack

Patent: 6,831,810 →

Application: 10/232,867 →

Disk Drive Using Dual Slope Integrator to Extract Velocity of an Actuator Arm from a Back Emf Voltage

Patent: 6,826,007 →

Application: 10/232,916 →

Disk Drive Including Pivot-Bearing Cartridge Tolerance Ring Having a Damping Layer for Actuator Resonance Reduction

Patent: 7,085,108 →

Application: 10/261,435 →

Disk Drive with Coil Spring Attaching Flex Bracket to Base

Patent: 6,980,391 →

Application: 10/261,436 →

Disk Drive Having a Connection-Blocking Device for Use with a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Power Receptacle

Patent: 6,791,779 →

Application: 10/261,437 →

Disk Drive Employing a Non-Volatile Serial Semiconductor Memory for Storing a Control Program for a Microprocessor

Patent: 7,028,174 →

Application: 10/261,565 →

Disk Drive Including an Airflow Diverter Element Radially Between Spindle Motor Axis of Rotation and Cavity in Shroud Surface

Patent: 6,876,514 →

Application: 10/262,253 →

Method of Balancing a Disk Pack Using Spindle Motor Imbalance and Disk Drive Including a Balanced Disk Pack

Patent: 6,698,286 →

Application: 10/262,466 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Read-Ahead to Optimize Cache Memory Allocation

Patent: 6,910,099 →

Application: 10/262,469 →

Method for Recursively Determining Repeatable Runout Cancellation Values in a Magnetic Disk Drive

Patent: 6,826,006 →

Application: 10/262,482 →

Disk Drive with Improved Characterization Segment Pattern and Method of Recording the Same

Patent: 6,657,801 →

Application: 10/262,484 →

Disk Drive Maintaining a Cache Link Attribute for Each of a Plurality of Allocation States

Patent: 6,961,814 →

Application: 10/262,492 →

Control and Observation of Physical Devices, Equipment and Processes by Multiple Users Over Computer Networks

Patent: 7,467,187 →

Application: 10/268,411 →

Publication: US 2003/0051006

Method and Apparatus for Self Servowriting of Tracks of a Disk Drive Using a Servo Control Loop Having a Two-Dimensional Digital State Compensator

Patent: 6,819,518 →

Application: 10/280,603 →

Reduced Bit Number Wedge Identification Techniques Within a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 6,934,114 →

Application: 10/280,684 →

Disk Drive Allocating Cache Segments by Mapping Bits of a Command Size into Corresponding Segment Pools

Patent: 6,845,427 →

Application: 10/280,747 →

Disk Drive Actuator Arm Assembly Having a Portion of the Arm at a Greater Distance from a Disk Recording Surface Than the Arm Tip Portion

Patent: 7,050,270 →

Application: 10/286,126 →

Disk Drive Employing a Multi-Phase Rotational Position Optimization (Rpo) Algorithm

Patent: 7,114,029 →

Application: 10/286,127 →

Method and Devices for Providing Magnetoresistive Heads with Protection from Electrostatic Discharge and Electric Overstress Events

Patent: 6,891,702 →

Application: 10/286,144 →

Methods and Systems for Asynchronously Testing a Plurality of Disk Drives

Patent: 7,076,391 →

Application: 10/286,146 →

Disk Drive Including Surface Coated Disk Clamp Screws with Reduced Coefficient of Friction for Mitigating Disk Clamp Movement

Patent: 7,057,852 →

Application: 10/286,147 →

Esd-Protected Head Gimbal Assembly for Use in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,801,402 →

Application: 10/286,170 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Notched Disk Clamp for Improved Disk Balance

Patent: 6,754,042 →

Application: 10/286,238 →

Method of Making Disk Drives Using a Frame Array with a Plurality of Disk Drive Base Portions

Patent: 6,990,727 →

Application: 10/286,659 →

Disk Drive Pre-Computing Seek Parameters for a Continuation Track and a Next Command to Facilitate Continuing a Read-Ahead or Aborting the Read-Ahead

Patent: 6,965,966 →

Application: 10/286,682 →

Storage Peripheral Having a Robust Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Pcb Connector

Patent: 6,908,330 →

Application: 10/295,135 →

Publication: US 2004/0097122

Robust Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Pcb Connector

Patent: 6,832,929 →

Application: 10/295,665 →

Publication: US 2004/0097123

Robust Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Cable Connector

Patent: 6,811,427 →

Application: 10/295,815 →

Publication: US 2004/0097124

Spindle Motor Having Spindle Motor Stator with Laminate Layers for Increased Head Stack Assembly Access

Patent: 6,759,784 →

Application: 10/298,096 →

Access and Control System for Network-Enabled Devices

Patent: 7,120,692 →

Application: 10/300,500 →

Publication: US 2003/0191848

Head Stack Assembly Including Laminated Nut Plate with Damping Layer Interposed Between Metal Layers

Patent: 6,958,890 →

Application: 10/306,974 →

Disk Drive Actuator Arm Assembly Having One or More Slotted Actuator Arms

Patent: 6,961,218 →

Application: 10/306,978 →

Head Stack and Actuator Arm Assemblies and Disk Drives Having an Actuator Including an Actuator Arm Spacer to Increase Actuator and Suspension Stiffness and to Reduce the Number of Actuator Arm Resonance Modes

Patent: 7,064,932 →

Application: 10/306,984 →

Disk Drive Reading Servo Sectors Recorded at a Relative Offset on Multiple Disk Surfaces to Increase the Servo Sample Rate

Patent: 6,952,322 →

Application: 10/307,068 →

Apparatus for Securing a Cable Assembly Within an Enclosed Electronic System

Patent: 6,790,066 →

Application: 10/307,271 →

Disk Drive Including a Base Assembly Having a Flex-to-Board Edge Connector

Patent: 6,934,126 →

Application: 10/328,586 →

Disk Drive Including an Airflow Blocker with a Planar Portion Extending from a Blocker Arm Portion

Patent: 7,006,324 →

Application: 10/328,609 →

Air Bearing Slider Including Pressurized Side Pads with Forward and Trailing Shallow Etched Surfaces

Patent: 7,019,945 →

Application: 10/328,610 →

Disk Drive Having a Ramp Used for the Controlled Loading of a Head of a Head Stack Assembly Onto a Disk

Patent: 6,862,154 →

Application: 10/329,109 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Spindle Motor Having a Windings Shield for Reduced Disk Voltage Coupling

Patent: 7,113,365 →

Application: 10/329,127 →

Disk Drive Employing a Disk Command Data Structure for Tracking a Write Verify Status of a Write Command

Patent: 7,076,604 →

Application: 10/329,152 →

Disk Drive Employing a Configuration Data Structure Comprising a Plurality of Configuration Parameters to Facilitate Disk Commands

Patent: 7,024,614 →

Application: 10/329,155 →

Head Stack Load Comb for Controlled Head Loading

Patent: 6,941,642 →

Application: 10/329,156 →

System and Method for Processing Track Identification Data in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,050,249 →

Application: 10/329,157 →

External Disk Drive Compatible with a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Standard Including a Sata Compatible Shielded Cable Capable of Receiving Power Signals from a Host

Patent: 6,781,826 →

Application: 10/329,160 →

Disk Drive Executing a Manufacturing Program Internally by Executing Disk Commands Through a Vector

Patent: 6,996,501 →

Application: 10/329,161 →

Disk Drive and Method for Improved Disk Rotation Control

Patent: 7,050,258 →

Application: 10/329,163 →

Disk Drive Executing Part of a Linked Disk Command

Patent: 6,845,405 →

Application: 10/329,166 →

Disk Drive Executing a Preemptive Multitasking Operating System Comprising Tasks of Varying Priority

Patent: 7,082,494 →

Application: 10/329,167 →

Disk Drive Comprising Depletion Mode Mosfets for Protecting a Head from Electrostatic Discharge

Patent: 7,009,820 →

Application: 10/329,197 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Plastic Molded Crash Stop with Embedded Magnet for Latching an Actuator Arm

Patent: 6,574,073 →

Application: 10/355,318 →

Disk Drive Including a Pair of Actuator Coils Each with a Radial Segment Generally Perpendicular to Inner and Outer Segments and Overlapping with Inner and Outer Magnets

Patent: 6,816,342 →

Application: 10/355,501 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Coil with Side Segments Equally Overlapping Inner and Outer Magnet Sets

Patent: 6,816,343 →

Application: 10/355,515 →

Cleating Features to Improve Adhesive Interface Between a Bobbin and a Coil of an Actuator Coil Portion of a Hard Disk Drive

Patent: 6,867,950 →

Application: 10/355,834 →

Disk Drive Having Internal Data Structures for Efficiently Storing Repeatable Runout Cancellation Information

Patent: 6,972,922 →

Application: 10/360,206 →

Disk Drive Comprising Current Sense Circuitry for a Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 6,850,383 →

Application: 10/376,819 →

Disk Drive Comprising Oscillators and Counters for Sensing Current in a Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 6,850,384 →

Application: 10/376,821 →

Disk Drives and Host Devices Including a Resetable Shock Sensor

Patent: 6,975,476 →

Application: 10/376,832 →

Disk Drive Rotary Actuator Assembly Having a Constrained Layer Damper Attached to a Flat Actuator Coil

Patent: 6,937,444 →

Application: 10/376,833 →

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

Patent: 6,940,698 →

Application: 10/376,958 →

Publication: US 2004/0169961

Cleating Features to Improve Adhesive Interface Between an Actuator Tang and a Tang-Supporting Surface of an Actuator Assembly of a Hard Disk Drive

Patent: 6,950,284 →

Application: 10/377,037 →

Disk Drive Employing a Multi-Stage Pulse Width Modulated Voice Coil Motor Driver

Patent: 7,126,781 →

Application: 10/377,038 →

Esd-Protected Slider and Head Gimbal Assembly

Patent: 6,972,930 →

Application: 10/377,041 →

Disk Drive Having Servo Sectors That Store Repeatable Runout Correction Values and Related Error Correction Code Data

Patent: 7,027,256 →

Application: 10/377,078 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Main Coil and an Actuator Secondary Coil with a Lateral Segment and Method of Operating Same

Patent: 6,906,897 →

Application: 10/377,210 →

Disk Drive Monitoring a Supply Current to Protect Motor Driver Circuits

Patent: 6,934,135 →

Application: 10/377,219 →

Actuator for Use with a Disk Drive Having a Coil Assembly Designed to Aid in Heat Convection from the Coil of the Coil Assembly

Patent: 6,847,506 →

Application: 10/377,572 →

Head Stack Assembly Including a Ground Conductive Pad for Grounding a Slider to a Gimbal

Patent: 7,006,330 →

Application: 10/386,259 →

Disk Drive Including a Stamped Arm Assembly and Method of Making an Actuator Arm Assembly

Patent: 6,982,853 →

Application: 10/404,456 →

Method for Mapping a Selected Sector to a Zone on a Disk

Patent: 7,076,603 →

Application: 10/404,485 →

Configuring a Disk Drive to Support a Targeted Storage Format

Patent: 7,058,759 →

Application: 10/404,990 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator with a Constrained Layer Damper Disposed Upon an Actuator Body Lateral Surface

Patent: 6,879,466 →

Application: 10/404,997 →

Disk Drive Housing Member Including an Electrically Insulative Coating and Metallic Platings and Method of Manufacturing the Same

Patent: 7,209,317 →

Application: 10/404,998 →

Disk Drive Comprising an Offset-Nulling Amplifier for Detecting a Back Emf Voltage of a Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 6,900,959 →

Application: 10/405,013 →

Storage Subsystem with Embedded Circuit for Protecting Against Anomalies in Power Signal from Host

Patent: 6,856,556 →

Application: 10/406,805 →

Tag Memory Disk Cache Architecture

Patent: 6,862,660 →

Application: 10/419,459 →

Continuous Separator Plate for Use with a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,930,857 →

Application: 10/425,886 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Plate Body Attached to a Fixed Spindle Shaft of a Spindle Motor

Patent: 6,888,697 →

Application: 10/425,897 →

Method and Apparatus for Self Servowriting of Tracks of a Disk Drive Using an Observer Based on an Equivalent One-Dimensional State Model

Patent: 7,046,472 →

Application: 10/427,475 →

Disk Drive and Method Having Cost-Effective Storage of the Disk Drive's Internal Program Code

Patent: 7,440,214 →

Application: 10/427,484 →

Disk Drive Suspension Assembly Including a Base Plate with Mass Reduction Openings at Distal Corners

Patent: 6,967,800 →

Application: 10/427,495 →

Method for Calculating a Format Specific Parameter in a Disk Drive Having Differing Surface Formats

Patent: 6,898,044 →

Application: 10/427,499 →

Disk Drive Employing Commutation Phase Modulation and Current Modulation of a Spindle Motor

Patent: 6,972,539 →

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

Patent: 6,980,401 →

Application: 10/427,651 →

Method for Generating a Format Specific Data Structure in a Disk Drive Having Differing Surface Formats

Patent: 7,046,467 →

Application: 10/427,760 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Pulse Width Modulated Demand Limit Circuit for Enhancing Power Management During Spin-Down

Patent: 6,970,319 →

Application: 10/446,885 →

Disk Drive and Disk Drive-Containing Device Having Selectively Controllable Spindle Motor Spin Up Profiles

Patent: 6,989,953 →

Application: 10/446,886 →

Method for Adaptively Allocating Data Storage Tracks in a Disk Drive to Improve Seek Performance

Patent: 6,882,496 →

Application: 10/448,482 →

Disk Drive Having an Acoustic Damping Assembly with an Acoustic Barrier Layer

Patent: 6,954,329 →

Application: 10/448,487 →

Disk Drive Having an Acoustic Damping Shield Assembly with an Acoustic Barrier Layer

Patent: 6,958,884 →

Application: 10/448,488 →

Method for Storing Format Specific Data in a Microcontroller Execution Memory

Patent: 7,003,626 →

Application: 10/449,989 →

Disk Drive Including a Disk Plate Having a Damping Member

Patent: 6,862,156 →

Application: 10/452,569 →

Performance of a Rotary Actuator in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,903,897 →

Application: 10/607,710 →

Disk Drive Cover for Use with a Disk Drive to Provide for Disk Shrouding and Heat Dissipation

Patent: 6,862,176 →

Application: 10/608,874 →

Flex Circuit Assembly with an Integrated Circuit Device Attached to a Base Film with an Underfill Portion and Sealed with a Glob Top Portion

Patent: 7,142,397 →

Application: 10/609,062 →

Raised Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Sata) Connector for High-Density Mounting on a Printed Circuit Board (Pcb)

Patent: 6,884,085 →

Application: 10/609,063 →

Selecting a Track Density for Each Disk Surface of a Disk Drive Based on Head Characteristic

Patent: 6,943,972 →

Application: 10/609,066 →

Disk Drive Controlling Ripple Current of a Voice Coil Motor When Driven by a Pwm Driver

Patent: 6,965,488 →

Application: 10/609,240 →

Disk Drive Employing a Modified Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm to Account for External Vibrations

Patent: 6,968,422 →

Application: 10/609,241 →

Range-Based Cache Control System and Method

Patent: 6,880,043 →

Application: 10/627,512 →

Cluster-Based Cache Memory Allocation

Patent: 6,996,669 →

Application: 10/628,144 →

Disk Drives and Actuator Assemblies Having a Pair of Bonded Voice Coil Supporting Arms

Patent: 7,092,216 →

Application: 10/632,351 →

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

Patent: 6,900,958 →

Application: 10/632,434 →

Timing Compensation in a Self-Servowriting System

Patent: 6,924,960 →

Application: 10/632,880 →

Fetch Operations in a Disk Drive Control System

Patent: 7,194,576 →

Application: 10/633,090 →

Disk Drive Pulse Width Modulating a Voice Coil Motor Using Model Reference Current Feedback

Patent: 7,209,321 →

Application: 10/633,095 →

Stamped Actuator Arm Having Longitudinally Spaced-Apart Stamped Protrusions for Supporting a Trace Suspension Flex

Patent: 7,911,742 →

Application: 10/633,145 →

Disk Drive Including a One-Piece Stamped Actuator Arm Assembly and Method of Making Same

Patent: 7,215,513 →

Application: 10/633,190 →

Instruction Prefetch Caching for Remote Memory

Patent: 7,240,161 →

Application: 10/633,257 →

Reducing Estimation Period for Repeatable Runout Errors in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,924,959 →

Application: 10/651,408 →

Disk Drive Having an Actuator Arm Assembly That Includes Stamped Actuator Arms

Patent: 7,161,769 →

Application: 10/651,411 →

Disk Drive Employing Enhanced Instruction Cache Management to Facilitate Non-Sequential Immediate Operands

Patent: 7,055,000 →

Application: 10/651,412 →

Disk Drive Including Spindle Motor Hub and Damping Members for Damping Disk Movement

Patent: 6,888,698 →

Application: 10/674,893 →

Head Stack Assembly Including a Trace Suspension Assembly Backing Layer and a Ground Trace for Grounding a Slider

Patent: 7,099,117 →

Application: 10/676,537 →

Head Gimbal Assembly Including a Trace Suspension Assembly Backing Layer with a Conductive Layer Formed Upon a Gimbal Having a Lower Oxidation Rate

Patent: 7,006,331 →

Application: 10/676,538 →

Disk Drive Modifying a Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm Based on Motor Capability of a Vcm

Patent: 6,987,639 →

Application: 10/676,578 →

Reducing the Length of Servo-Wedges in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,116,505 →

Application: 10/676,580 →

Disk Drive Having a Vcm Plate Which Includes an Integrally Formed Elongated Protrusion for Securing a Flex Bracket to the Disk Drive Base

Patent: 6,970,329 →

Application: 10/676,586 →

Reducing Micro-Controller Access Time to Data Stored in a Remote Memory in a Disk Drive Control System

Patent: 7,111,116 →

Application: 10/676,739 →

Disk Drive Including Electrical Traces Integrally Formed Upon Disk Drive Housing

Patent: 6,839,199 →

Application: 10/678,389 →

Reducing Head Gain Calibration Time in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,064,918 →

Application: 10/698,273 →

Slider with a Slider Ground Pad Electrically Connected to Write Head Poles and Read Head Shields

Patent: 7,027,264 →

Application: 10/698,655 →

Method of Assembling a Disk Drive Including Actuating a Shipping Comb to Bend a Suspension Vertically to Facilitate a Merge Tool

Patent: 7,193,819 →

Application: 10/698,713 →

Disk Drive Measuring Pole Tip Protrusion by Performing a Write Operation to Heat the Transducer

Patent: 6,950,267 →

Application: 10/698,786 →

Disk Drive Employing Multiple Index Marks

Patent: 7,110,202 →

Application: 10/698,787 →

Disk Drive Printed Circuit Board with Component-Dedicated Alignment Line Indicators Including Inner and Outer Line Segments

Patent: 7,381,904 →

Application: 10/724,299 →

Disk Drive Disabling Bemf Detection Window to Reduce Acoustic Noise While Using Wedge Spindle Speed Control

Patent: 6,954,324 →

Application: 10/724,331 →

Disk Drive Having Electrically Parallel Actuator Coils for Selectively Boosting Actuator Torque

Patent: 6,947,251 →

Application: 10/724,345 →

Disk Drive Employing Bemf Spindle Speed Control or Wedge Spindle Speed Control

Patent: 6,914,740 →

Application: 10/724,386 →

Disk Drive Control System Having a Servo Processing Accelerator Circuit

Patent: 6,958,881 →

Application: 10/724,407 →

Disk Drive Including an Orthogonally Disposed Actuator Coil and an E-Shaped Voice Coil Motor Yoke for Supporting a Pair of Voice Coil Magnets

Patent: 7,161,768 →

Application: 10/724,410 →

Disk Drive Including a Disk Plate with a Reduced Thickness Inner Edge Disposed Towards a Spindle Motor Hub

Patent: 7,064,921 →

Application: 10/741,280 →

Disk Drive Including a Disk Plate Overlapping a Disk Spacer in a Circumferential Disk Spacer Opening

Patent: 7,085,098 →

Application: 10/741,604 →

A Method of Assembling a Plurality of Disk Drives

Patent: 6,996,893 →

Application: 10/741,648 →

Disk Drive Modifying Estimated Seek Times for a Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm Based on Change in Estimated Seek Time Parameter

Patent: 7,061,714 →

Application: 10/741,785 →

Pivot Bearing Cartridge Including Central Pivot Element and Ball Bearing Set

Patent: 6,856,491 →

Application: 10/741,786 →

Pivot Bearing Cartridge Including Central Pivot Element and Ball Bearing Set

Patent: 6,856,492 →

Application: 10/741,851 →

Publication: US 2004/0130827

Spindle Motor Including Magnetic Element for Pre-Loading a Ball Bearing Set

Patent: 6,898,052 →

Application: 10/741,863 →

Track Identification Codewords Having Multiple Bit Error Correction Capability and Generalized Gray Code Property

Patent: 7,099,095 →

Application: 10/769,143 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Synchronizing a Servo Write Clock in Response to a Sync Mark Reliability Metric

Patent: 7,212,364 →

Application: 10/769,386 →

Using an External Spiral Servo Writer to Write Reference Servo Sectors and Spiral Tracks to a Disk to Facilitate Writing Product Servo Sectors to the Disk

Patent: 6,965,489 →

Application: 10/769,387 →

Disk Drive Employing a Calibrated Brake Pulse to Reduce Acoustic Noise When Latching an Actuator Arm

Patent: 7,224,546 →

Application: 10/769,401 →

Scaling Linear Vibration Sensor Data in Disk Drive

Patent: 6,952,318 →

Application: 10/769,444 →

Demodulating Servo Sectors and Spiral Tracks Using Common Circuitry

Patent: 6,989,954 →

Application: 10/769,480 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Synchronizing a Servo Write Clock to a High Frequency Signal in a Spiral Track

Patent: 6,943,978 →

Application: 10/769,680 →

Reducing Effects of Rotational Vibration in Disk Drive

Patent: 6,937,423 →

Application: 10/773,526 →

Method for Manufacturing a Disk Drive with a Hinged Head Disk Assembly Enclosure

Patent: 7,062,837 →

Application: 10/774,143 →

Method and Apparatus for Self Servowriting of Tracks of a Disk Drive Using a Servo Control Loop Having a Two-Dimensional Weighted Digital State Compensator

Patent: 6,999,263 →

Application: 10/788,767 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Including a Servo Burst Pattern Having a Normal Servo Burst Field and a Quadrature Servo Burst Field

Patent: 6,980,389 →

Application: 10/789,675 →

Switching Interfaces in External Disk Drives

Patent: 7,237,054 →

Application: 10/789,889 →

Vcr Webification

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Application: 10/795,071 →

Publication: US 2004/0172449

Disk Drive Having Apertures Near the Id of a Disk Stack for Allowing Airflow to Pass Through the Apertures to Reduce Disk Flutter

Patent: 7,212,377 →

Application: 10/815,507 →

Servo Synchronization Validation Techniques Based on Both Servo Synch Marks and Wedge Identifiers in a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 7,023,639 →

Application: 10/815,508 →

Peripheral Data Storage System with Multi-State User Display

Patent: 7,302,501 →

Application: 10/815,516 →

Performing Backup Operations to Peripheral Data Storage Systems

Patent: 7,302,579 →

Application: 10/816,348 →

Head Stack Assembly with an Actuator Body and Flex Cable Guiding Support and Method of Making the Same

Patent: 7,180,711 →

Application: 10/816,536 →

Remote Power Cycling of Peripheral Data Storage System

Patent: 7,346,790 →

Application: 10/816,545 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Including a Servo Burst Pattern in Which a Phase Difference Between Radially Adjacent Servo Bursts Is Less Than 180 Degrees

Patent: 7,027,257 →

Application: 10/816,683 →

Actuator Including an Actuator Body with Parallel Support Extensions and Coil Support Tab for Supporting a Coil and Method of Making the Same

Patent: 7,375,929 →

Application: 10/816,686 →

Disk Drive Attenuating Excitation of Arm Vibration Mode by Simultaneously Driving Secondary Actuator for Non-Active Head

Patent: 6,972,924 →

Application: 10/816,997 →

Spindle Motor Having Spindle Motor Stator for Increased Head Stack Assembly Access

Patent: 6,963,469 →

Application: 10/829,029 →

Method for Iteratively Determining Repeatable Runout Cancellation Values in a Magnetic Disk Drive

Patent: 6,999,267 →

Application: 10/835,446 →

Head Stack Assembly with Locking Pins for Retaining Flex Cable

Patent: 7,227,725 →

Application: 10/837,470 →

Disk Drive Including a Spindle Motor and a Pivot Bearing Cartridge Attached to Different Layers of a Laminated Cover

Patent: 7,292,406 →

Application: 10/837,471 →

Disk Drive and Method for Data Transfer Initiated by Optional Disk-Drive Commands on a Serial Interface That Only Supports Standard Disk-Drive Commands

Patent: 7,200,698 →

Application: 10/842,937 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Spindle Motor Employing Anionic/Cationic Lubricant to Reduce Disk Surface Potential

Patent: 7,180,703 →

Application: 10/845,863 →

Head Stack Assembly with Insulated Wiring Extending Between Actuator Coil and Actuator Main Body Section Disposed in Lateral Wiring Protector Extending from Actuator Body

Patent: 7,145,753 →

Application: 10/846,036 →

Disk Drive Having Apertures Aligned Near the Inner Diameter of a Disk Stack for Allowing Airflow to Pass Through the Apertures to Reduce Disk Flutter

Patent: 7,224,551 →

Application: 10/846,041 →

Disk Drive Performing Multi-Level Prioritization of Entries in a Suspect Sector List to Identify and Relocate Defective Data Sectors

Patent: 7,274,639 →

Application: 10/850,850 →

Disk Drive Estimating Angular Position of Spindle Motor During Spin-Up by Computing Differences in Winding Current Rise Times

Patent: 7,253,582 →

Application: 10/856,320 →

Disk Drive with Airflow Diverter Filter Component

Patent: 7,239,475 →

Application: 10/856,322 →

Acceleration Disturbance Detection Subsystem for Use with Disk Drives

Patent: 7,023,640 →

Application: 10/856,400 →

Determining Repeatable Runout Cancellation Information Using Pes Information Generated During Self Servo-Writing Operations

Patent: 6,937,420 →

Application: 10/856,658 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks by Generating a Time-Stamped Sync Mark Detect Signal Processed by Timing Recovery Firmware

Patent: 6,967,799 →

Application: 10/857,468 →

Servo Synchronization Based on a Servo Synch Mark That Conflicts with Self-Clocking Encoding Algorithms

Patent: 6,934,104 →

Application: 10/857,553 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Including a Servo Burst Pattern That Improves the Signal to Noise Ratio During Track Following for Writing

Patent: 7,023,637 →

Application: 10/860,330 →

Disk Drive Employing Asymmetric Acceleration/Deceleration Pulses for Acoustic Noise Reduction During Unlatch

Patent: 7,054,098 →

Application: 10/860,339 →

Disk Drive Employing a Velocity Profile and Back Emf Feedback to Control a Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 7,068,463 →

Application: 10/868,551 →

Binning Disk Drives During Manufacturing by Evaluating Quality Metrics Prior to a Final Quality Audit

Patent: 7,269,525 →

Application: 10/870,572 →

Using a Genetic Algorithm to Select a Subset of Quality Metrics as Input to a Disk Drive Failure Prediction Algorithm

Patent: 7,236,911 →

Application: 10/870,622 →

Rotating Media Storage Device Having a Calibration Track with Unique Calibration Servo Synch Marks

Patent: 7,372,650 →

Application: 10/873,341 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Writing Multi-Bit Sync Marks in Spiral Tracks for Improved Servo Writing

Patent: 7,440,210 →

Application: 10/875,591 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Writing Discontinuous Spiral Tracks to Prevent Overheating

Patent: 7,330,327 →

Application: 10/875,637 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Drive Component Adhered to the Disk Drive Housing via an Adhesive Assembly Having a Leveling Layer

Patent: 7,209,319 →

Application: 10/877,740 →

Disk Drive with Airflow Channeling Enclosure

Patent: 7,353,524 →

Application: 10/877,746 →

Identifying Defective Data Sectors in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,072,129 →

Application: 10/882,473 →

Method for Nonsequentially Writing Reference Spiral Servo Patterns to a Disk to Compensate for Disk Expansion

Patent: 6,992,851 →

Application: 10/882,844 →

Method for Preventing Radial Error Propagation During Self-Servowriting of Tracks in a Magnetic Disk Drive

Patent: 6,963,465 →

Application: 10/882,971 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks by Shifting a Demodulation Window an Integer Number of Sync Mark Intervals

Patent: 7,248,426 →

Application: 10/903,522 →

Method for Improving Servo Performance in a Disk Drive Having Tracks with Mini Servo Wedges

Patent: 7,110,208 →

Application: 10/903,524 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Synchronizing a Servo Write Clock to a Reference Pattern on the Disk and Compensating for Repeatable Phase Error

Patent: 7,333,280 →

Application: 10/911,039 →

Estimating a Writer/Reader Gap in a Disk Drive by Measuring Write/Read Times Relative to a Sync Mark

Patent: 7,006,316 →

Application: 10/919,839 →

Method of Fabricating Disk Drives Using a Common Disk Drive Base with an Attached Weight Plate, and a Disk Drive Including the Same

Patent: 7,561,374 →

Application: 10/922,722 →

Disk Drive with a Cover Including a Formed-in-Place Gasket with a Cross-Sectional Cavity

Patent: 7,298,584 →

Application: 10/922,723 →

Disk Drive Configured to Enable Non Destructive Leak Detection at the Interface Between a Drive Sub-Component and the Disk Drive Housing

Patent: 7,274,534 →

Application: 10/926,249 →

Disk Drive Having One or More Partial Servo Wedges That Includes a Short Servo Sync Mark That Is Different Than the Servo Sync Word of Full Servo Wedges

Patent: 7,046,465 →

Application: 10/927,900 →

Disk Drive with Disks Having Different Disk Stiffness, Thickness and Material Combinations

Patent: 7,064,922 →

Application: 10/940,312 →

Adjusting Track Density by Changing Slope of Spiral Tracks Used to Servo Write a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,433,143 →

Application: 10/943,287 →

Adjusting Track Density Over Disk Radius by Changing Slope of Spiral Tracks Used to Servo Write a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,987,636 →

Application: 10/943,629 →

Adjusting Track Density by Changing Pes Algorithm When Servo Writing a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks

Patent: 7,068,459 →

Application: 10/946,462 →

Using an External Spiral Servo Writer to Write Spiral Tracks to a Disk to Facilitate Writing Product Servo Sectors to the Disk

Patent: 7,016,134 →

Application: 10/946,965 →

Cluster-Based Defect Detection Testing for Disk Drives

Patent: 7,139,145 →

Application: 10/948,711 →

Method for Reducing Disk Thermal Expansion Effects While Writing Reference Spiral Servo Patterns to a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,992,852 →

Application: 10/966,542 →

Data Storage Testing Apparatus for Delivering Linear or Rotational Acceleration

Patent: 7,013,731 →

Application: 10/966,550 →

Head Stack Assembly Having an Actuator Body with Multiple Slots Adjacent to a Bore

Patent: 7,369,368 →

Application: 10/966,552 →

Disk Drives Having Adaptively-Sized Data Sectors to Compensate for Disk Eccentricity

Patent: 7,215,496 →

Application: 10/969,828 →

Method of Operating a Disk Drive Including Rotating a Perpendicular Write Head to Reduce a Difference Between Skew and Taper Angles, and a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,215,514 →

Application: 10/971,215 →

Method of Assembly of a Disk Drive Including Applying a Holding Force Against a First Vcm Plate During Engagement with a Second Vcm Plate

Patent: 7,222,410 →

Application: 10/976,465 →

Disk Drive Cover with Top and Bottom Layers Electrically Grounded with First and Second Flaps and Method of Manufacturing the Same

Patent: 7,385,784 →

Application: 10/976,502 →

Method of Manufacturing and Disk Drive Produced by Measuring the Read and Write Widths and Varying the Track Pitch in the Servo-Writer

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Application: 10/978,644 →

Publication: US 2005/0117240

Adjusting Power Consumption of Digital Circuitry Relative to Critical Path Circuit Having the Largest Propagation Delay Error

Patent: 7,205,805 →

Application: 10/980,676 →

Adjusting Power Consumption of Digital Circuitry by Generating Frequency Error Representing Error in Propagation Delay

Patent: 7,129,763 →

Application: 10/983,382 →

Predicting Disk Drive Failure at a Central Processing Facility Using an Evolving Disk Drive Failure Prediction Algorithm

Patent: 8,316,263 →

Application: 10/983,982 →

External Memory Device to Provide Disk Device and Optical Device Functionality

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Application: 10/984,289 →

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 7,546,353 →

Application: 10/987,551 →

Publication: US 2005/0120082

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 7,587,467 →

Application: 10/987,610 →

Publication: US 2005/0144186

Managed peer-to-peer applications, systems and methods for distributed data access and storage

Patent: 9,191,443 →

Application: 10/988,280 →

Publication: US 2005/0144200

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 7,917,628 →

Application: 10/988,365 →

Publication: US 2005/0149481

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 8,688,797 →

Application: 10/988,372 →

Publication: US 2005/0138186

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 8,793,374 →

Application: 10/988,391 →

Publication: US 2005/0144195

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 7,934,251 →

Application: 10/988,394 →

Publication: US 2005/0114711

Disk Drive Estimating a Sinusoidal Error in a Wedge Time Period Due to Eccentricity in Disk Rotation

Patent: 7,068,451 →

Application: 10/989,674 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Write Clock Frequency to Compensate for Eccentricity in Disk Rotation

Patent: 7,251,098 →

Application: 10/992,930 →

Disk Drive Employing Wedge Spindle Speed Control with Eccentricity Compensation

Patent: 6,972,540 →

Application: 10/993,077 →

Disk Drive Servo Controller Utilizing an Extended Servo Header

Patent: 7,057,836 →

Application: 10/993,461 →

Demagnetizing a Head in a Disk Drive by Increasing the Frequency of an Ac Write Signal While Maintaining the Write Current Amplitude

Patent: 7,092,186 →

Application: 10/996,116 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Overwriting a Harmonic Frequency Fill Pattern in the Servo Burst Area

Patent: 7,068,461 →

Application: 10/998,978 →

Systems and Methods for Reducing Unauthorized Data Recovery from Solid-State Storage Devices

Patent: 7,502,256 →

Application: 11/000,134 →

Publication: US 2006/0117393

Servo Writing Substantially Linear Servo Wedges to Reduce Overwrite Effect in Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

Patent: 7,136,242 →

Application: 11/009,761 →

Repeatable Timing Error Correction System for Use in a Servo Writer

Patent: 7,199,959 →

Application: 11/010,554 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Integrating a Spiral Track Read Signal

Patent: 7,301,717 →

Application: 11/018,554 →

Vibration Isolating Disk Drive Receiving Stations and Chassis Used in the Manufacture and/or Testing of Hard Disk Drives

Patent: 7,092,251 →

Application: 11/030,355 →

Method for Improving Head Position Determination in a Disk Drive

Patent: 6,995,941 →

Application: 11/031,616 →

Developing a Disk Drive Manufacturing Program by Executing the Manufacturing Program on an External Test System

Patent: 7,062,398 →

Application: 11/031,617 →

Disk Drive Comprising Depletion Mode Mosfet for Protecting a Head from Electrostatic Discharge

Patent: 7,046,488 →

Application: 11/031,647 →

Disk Drive with Cover Including a Metal Layer and a Polymer Layer with a Polymer Layer Feature

Patent: 7,420,771 →

Application: 11/032,940 →

Disk Drive Spindle Motor Having a Cavity Defined by One of an Upper Surface of a Stator Support Structure and a Lower Surface of a Stator Tooth

Patent: 7,436,625 →

Application: 11/032,946 →

Tooling Mandrel for Assembling a Head Stack Assembly with a Disk Drive Base

Patent: 7,552,526 →

Application: 11/034,002 →

Storage Subsystem with Embedded Circuit for Protecting Against Anomalies in Power Signal from Host

Patent: 7,126,857 →

Application: 11/037,728 →

Publication: US 2005/0122791

Suspension Assembly with Piezoelectric Microactuators Electrically Connected to a Folded Flex Circuit Segment

Patent: 7,280,319 →

Application: 11/047,400 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive Using a Secondary Actuator to Control Skew Angle

Patent: 7,489,464 →

Application: 11/050,508 →

Disk Drive Using a Timer to Arbitrate Periodic Serial Communication with a Power Driver

Patent: 7,106,537 →

Application: 11/050,537 →

Internal Disk Drive Temperature Estimation

Patent: 7,050,254 →

Application: 11/056,201 →

Disk Drive Including Magnetic Element Support with Primary and Secondary Magnetic Flux Paths

Patent: 7,372,670 →

Application: 11/057,565 →

Disk Drive Including a Magnetic Element Support with a First Transition Section Angularly Lateral to a Coil and a Second Transition Section Radially Beyond the Coil

Patent: 7,327,537 →

Application: 11/057,678 →

Using Optical Character Recognition Augmented by an Error Correction Code to Detect Serial Numbers Written on a Wafer

Patent: 8,553,968 →

Application: 11/060,901 →

Disk Drives, Head Stack, Head Gimbal and Suspension Assemblies Having Positional Conductive Features

Patent: 7,315,435 →

Application: 11/083,641 →

Disk Drive Employing Stream Detection Engine to Enhance Cache Management Policy

Patent: 7,392,340 →

Application: 11/086,513 →

Disk Drive Including a Printed Circuit Board Assembly and a Pcba Shield with Tabs Engaged in Slots of a Disk Drive Base

Patent: 7,271,978 →

Application: 11/086,636 →

Disk Drive Compensation of Bias Imparted by a Flex Circuit Cable Utilizing a Dual Bias Curve Estimation Scheme

Patent: 7,253,989 →

Application: 11/086,814 →

Serial Interface Amplitude Selection for a Disk Drive in an Unknown Interconnect Environment

Patent: 7,366,641 →

Application: 11/092,119 →

Disk Drives and Disk Drive Containing Devices That Include a Servo Frequency Generator and Spindle Control Timer That Compensate for Disk Eccentricity

Patent: 7,075,746 →

Application: 11/093,506 →

Calibrating Correlation Between Pes and Off-Track Displacement by Processing High Frequency Signal in Spiral Track

Patent: 7,499,236 →

Application: 11/101,910 →

Optimizing Order of Error Recovery Steps in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,451,344 →

Application: 11/102,330 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Operating Mode Based on Historical Proximity of Host Commands

Patent: 7,437,502 →

Application: 11/111,411 →

Disk Drive Including a Post Attached to a Disk Drive Base and a Cover for Limiting Rotation of an Actuator

Patent: 7,609,486 →

Application: 11/113,897 →

Disk Drives, Head Stack, Head Gimbal and Suspension Assemblies Having a Compliant Suspension Tail Design for Solder Reflow

Patent: 7,414,814 →

Application: 11/117,934 →

Pass-Through Information Transfers Inserted After a Continued Primitive in Serial Communications Between a Device and a Host

Patent: 7,404,013 →

Application: 11/130,944 →

Pass-Through Information Transfers in Serial Communications Between a Device and a Host

Patent: 7,673,075 →

Application: 11/131,036 →

Disk Drive Employing Error Threshold Counters to Generate an Ecc Error Distribution

Patent: 7,562,282 →

Application: 11/134,915 →

Disk Drive Implementing Wear Prevention in a High Frequency Access Band of Tracks

Patent: 7,149,046 →

Application: 11/134,916 →

Disk Drive Employing Active Braking Using Inductive Sense

Patent: 7,158,329 →

Application: 11/134,917 →

Disk Drive Employing Momentum Based Unload During Power Failure

Patent: 7,095,579 →

Application: 11/143,839 →

Access and Control System for Network-Enabled Devices

Patent: 7,600,036 →

Application: 11/145,294 →

Publication: US 2005/0268334

Disk Drive Computing Repeatable Run Out While Actuator Arm Is Pressed Against Crash Stop

Patent: 7,265,933 →

Application: 11/152,415 →

Disk Drive Having a Servo Control System Optimized for Faster Determination of Repeatable Runout Correction Values and Related Method

Patent: 7,196,864 →

Application: 11/153,153 →

Method for Writing Repeatable Runout Correction Values to a Magnetic Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,304,819 →

Application: 11/165,638 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Seek Profile for Variable Seek Times to Reduce Power Dissipation

Patent: 7,199,966 →

Application: 11/168,268 →

Disk Drive Decreasing Head Temperature to Increase Fly-Height During Seek Operation

Patent: 7,088,545 →

Application: 11/168,274 →

Disk Drive Determining a Head-Switch Preheat Period Used to Format a Disk

Patent: 7,330,323 →

Application: 11/169,038 →

Method for Manufacturing a Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Transducer

Patent: 7,552,523 →

Application: 11/172,778 →

Disk Drive Recursively Estimating Repeatable Runout

Patent: 7,088,547 →

Application: 11/188,914 →

Disk Drive Identifying Starting Track by Performing Multiple Load Operations

Patent: 7,209,310 →

Application: 11/188,947 →

Multi-Drive Adaptor for Use in a Slot of a Disk Drive Test System

Patent: 7,634,375 →

Application: 11/190,281 →

Reducing Spiral Write Time and Clock Track Drift While Writing Spiral Reference Patterns to a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,145,744 →

Application: 11/196,076 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Processing Spiral Tracks in an Interleaved Manner

Patent: 7,113,362 →

Application: 11/208,358 →

Disk Drive for Optimizing Write Current Settings Relative to Drive Operating Characteristics and Ambient Temperature Readings

Patent: 7,095,577 →

Application: 11/226,988 →

System and Method for Particle Monitoring for a Head Disk Assembly to Detect a Head Disk Interface Event

Patent: 7,203,020 →

Application: 11/246,620 →

Disk Drive Implementing Shared Buffer Memory with Reduced Interrupt Latency

Patent: 8,019,914 →

Application: 11/246,652 →

Disk Drive to Characterize Misaligned Servo Wedges

Patent: 7,212,374 →

Application: 11/250,649 →

Disk Pack Balancing Station

Patent: 7,669,711 →

Application: 11/253,349 →

Pressure Transmission Assembly for Mounting to a Robotic Device Having a Rotatable End Effector

Patent: 7,559,590 →

Application: 11/253,388 →

Disk Drive Using an Optical Sensor to Detect a Position of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 7,215,504 →

Application: 11/253,400 →

Disk Drive or Any Serial Attached Device Logging a Cable Loss Event

Patent: 7,406,545 →

Application: 11/255,435 →

Disk Drive Employing Different Zone Boundaries Across Disk Surfaces

Patent: 7,436,610 →

Application: 11/255,436 →

Computer Device Employing a Sliding Window to Set an Idle Mode Timeout Interval

Patent: 7,380,147 →

Application: 11/256,724 →

Hard Disk Drive Recirculation Air Filter

Patent: 7,388,731 →

Application: 11/269,998 →

Self-Heating Disk Drive

Patent: 7,203,021 →

Application: 11/273,948 →

Disk Drive Implementing Data Path Protection by Encoding Large Host Blocks into Sub Blocks

Patent: 7,539,924 →

Application: 11/280,017 →

Disk Drive Using Loopback to Calibrate Transmission Amplitude

Patent: 7,280,302 →

Application: 11/280,046 →

Disk Drive Implementing Data Path Protection Without Writing the Error Detection Code Data to the Disk

Patent: 7,647,544 →

Application: 11/284,450 →

Disk Drive Including a Balancing Element with First and Second Cavities and a Cylindrical Portion Disposed About a Spindle Motor Hub

Patent: 7,529,064 →

Application: 11/285,427 →

Disk Drive Subtracting Low Frequency Disturbance from a Servo Burst Signal

Patent: 7,619,841 →

Application: 11/286,604 →

Disk Drive Maintaining a Substantially Constant Host Transfer Rate When Reading Data from Varying Data Rate Data Tracks Across Multiple Disk Surfaces

Patent: 8,134,798 →

Application: 11/287,515 →

Disk Drive Grouping in a Multi-Cell Disk Drive Test System

Patent: 7,912,666 →

Application: 11/287,723 →

Methods, Devices and Systems for Screw Feeding by Vacuum and Gravity

Patent: 7,178,432 →

Application: 11/289,847 →

Methods for Picking and Placing Workpieces into Small Form Factor Hard Disk Drives

Patent: 7,549,204 →

Application: 11/289,922 →

Clip for Mounting a Flex Cable Within a Head Stack Assembly

Patent: 7,729,091 →

Application: 11/294,732 →

Disk Drive Actuator with Outer Arms Having Regions of Reduced Width and Increased Thickness

Patent: 7,576,955 →

Application: 11/295,418 →

Actuator Including a Coil and a Wrap-Around Support Supporting a Tang

Patent: 7,505,231 →

Application: 11/297,894 →

Disk Vibration Damper Having an Integrated Air Circulation Guide

Patent: 7,593,181 →

Application: 11/305,550 →

Disk Drive Detecting Disk Warping by Detecting Negative Correlation Between Read Signal Amplitudes from Top and Bottom Disk Surfaces

Patent: 7,369,340 →

Application: 11/314,483 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive by Writing Spiral Tracks Using a Mechanical Position Sensor

Patent: 7,495,857 →

Application: 11/322,907 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Mechanical Position Sensor to Prevent a Runaway Condition

Patent: 7,619,844 →

Application: 11/322,908 →

Disk Drive Comprising an Optical Sensor for Vibration Mode Compensation

Patent: 7,365,932 →

Application: 11/323,251 →

Disk Drive Employing Coarse Position Feedback from Mechanical Position Sensor to Improve Format Efficiency

Patent: 7,480,116 →

Application: 11/336,316 →

Disk Drive Employing a Disk Command Data Structure for Tracking a Write Verify Status of a Write Command

Patent: 7,120,737 →

Application: 11/336,674 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Latch with a Catch Portion and a Crash Stop Portion of Lesser Material Stiffness Than the Catch Portion

Patent: 7,715,149 →

Application: 11/345,141 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Latch with a Pivot Ball in a Latch Post Opening and Between a Vcm Top Plate and the Latch

Patent: 7,660,075 →

Application: 11/345,354 →

Disk Drive with an Actuator Latch Having Fixed, Latching, and Latch Arm Portions Being a Single Component

Patent: 7,633,721 →

Application: 11/345,445 →

Actuator Including an Actuator Arm with a First Microactuator Supporting a Read Head and a Force-Balancing Microactuator Without Any Read Head

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Application: 11/350,427 →

Disk Drive with Translatable Ramp

Patent: 7,672,083 →

Application: 11/352,534 →

Asynchronous Automatic Software Module Updates in a Multi-Cell Disk Drive Test System

Patent: 7,596,722 →

Application: 11/353,352 →

Methods for Assembling a Disk Drive Using Robotic End Effector

Patent: 7,490,398 →

Application: 11/359,694 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Arm with a Region of Reduced Thickness Between an Arm Longitudinal Axis and a Disk Axis of Rotation

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Application: 11/385,091 →

Head Suspension with a Reinforced Limiter Tab

Patent: 7,477,488 →

Application: 11/385,266 →

Method of Manufacturing a Disk Drive with a Lead Frame Engaged Within a Host Electronic Unit Socket

Patent: 7,484,291 →

Application: 11/386,320 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive with a Controlled Overlap Near the Middle Diameter of the Disk

Patent: 7,453,661 →

Application: 11/387,343 →

Magnetic Disk Having Efficiently Stored Wrro Compensation Value Redundancy Information and Method for Using the Redundancy Information

Patent: 7,580,212 →

Application: 11/393,105 →

Switching Voltage Regulator Comprising a Cycle Comparator for Dynamic Voltage Scaling

Patent: 7,486,060 →

Application: 11/393,425 →

Disk Drive to Estimate Repeatable Runout (Rro) Based Upon on an Optimal Mean Square Estimation (Mse) Learning Method

Patent: 7,595,954 →

Application: 11/406,089 →

Method for Wedge Time Shift Calibration in a Disk Drive

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Application: 11/406,090 →

Systems and Methods for Measuring the Useful Life of Solid-State Storage Devices

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Publication: US 2007/0260811

Head Stack Assembly Including a Flexure with Radially Inward Fingers Projecting into a Flexure Tail Hole, and Method of Coupling the Flexure to a Flex Cable

Patent: 7,538,981 →

Application: 11/431,172 →

Disk Drive Motor Having a Rotor with at Least Three Bendable Balancing Tabs

Patent: 7,656,609 →

Application: 11/435,172 →

Disk Drive Cover Having a See-Through Insert Including an Electrically Conductive Material

Patent: 7,605,999 →

Application: 11/442,781 →

Head Gimbal Assembly Including a Flexure with a First Conductive Trace Disposed Between a Slider and a Dielectric Layer

Patent: 7,595,963 →

Application: 11/449,261 →

Head Gimbal Assembly Including a Conductive Trace Disposed Upon a Continuous Dielectric Layer Segment Without Overlying a Gimbal Arm

Patent: 8,605,389 →

Application: 11/450,817 →

System and Method to Monitor Particles Removed from a Component

Patent: 7,673,638 →

Application: 11/454,734 →

Purge Operations for Solid-State Storage Devices

Patent: 7,430,136 →

Application: 11/458,336 →

Publication: US 2006/0253667

System for Controlling Use of a Solid-State Storage Subsystem

Patent: 7,765,373 →

Application: 11/475,386 →

Solid-State Storage Subsystem Security Solution

Patent: 8,108,692 →

Application: 11/475,841 →

Adjusting Voltage Delivered to Disk Drive Circuitry Based on a Selected Zone

Patent: 7,551,383 →

Application: 11/477,999 →

Systems and Methods for Storing Data in Segments of a Storage Subsystem

Patent: 7,447,807 →

Application: 11/480,276 →

Systems and Methods for Segmenting and Protecting a Storage Subsystem

Patent: 7,509,441 →

Application: 11/480,303 →

Magnetic Disk Drive and Method for Efficiently Determining and Storing Rro Compensation Values Using a Secondary Micro-Actuator

Patent: 7,502,192 →

Application: 11/484,492 →

A Method of Reworking a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,610,672 →

Application: 11/494,239 →

Fault Tolerant Sync Mark Detection While Servo Writing a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks

Patent: 7,391,583 →

Application: 11/494,240 →

Disk Drive Correcting Track Address During a Write Operation

Patent: 7,369,343 →

Application: 11/494,242 →

Thermal Dissipation from a Flip Chip Through an Aperture in a Flex Cable

Patent: 7,339,268 →

Application: 11/500,567 →

Locating an Initial Servo Track in Order to Servo Write a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks

Patent: 7,457,071 →

Application: 11/500,568 →

Access and Control System for Network-Enabled Devices

Patent: 7,788,404 →

Application: 11/505,795 →

Publication: US 2006/0277314

Disk Drive Employing Pivot Friction Compensation

Patent: 7,440,225 →

Application: 11/507,234 →

Static Control Garment

Patent: 7,900,272 →

Application: 11/508,766 →

Updating Firmware of a Peripheral Device

Patent: 7,730,295 →

Application: 11/515,554 →

Disk Drive Actuator Rotary Bearing Attachment with Cam Member

Patent: 7,633,722 →

Application: 11/522,084 →

Belleville Disk Clamp

Patent: 8,824,098 →

Application: 11/523,184 →

Disk Drive Operable with First and Second Servo Patterns in a Perpendicular Media Recording Environment

Patent: 7,466,509 →

Application: 11/525,406 →

System and Method for Writing Servo Sectors in a Perpendicular Media Recording Environment

Patent: 7,388,728 →

Application: 11/525,411 →

Storage Subsystem Capable of Programming Field-Programmable Devices of a Target Computer System

Patent: 8,161,227 →

Application: 11/554,453 →

Head-Gimbal Assembly Including a Flexure Tongue with Stand-Offs Arranged to Facilitate Lateral Light Entry

Patent: 7,729,089 →

Application: 11/580,542 →

Radial Top Cover Gasket for Disk Drives

Patent: 7,852,601 →

Application: 11/582,791 →

Flexure Having Arms with Reduced Centroid Offset for Supporting a Head in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,826,177 →

Application: 11/582,794 →

Flexure Including a Heat Sink and a Dielectric Layer Under Trace Termination Pads

Patent: 7,567,410 →

Application: 11/590,575 →

Method for Improved Repeatable Run Out Learning in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,450,336 →

Application: 11/590,577 →

Adjusting on-Time for a Discontinuous Switching Voltage Regulator

Patent: 7,330,019 →

Application: 11/590,704 →

Compensating for Repeatable Phase Error When Servo Writing a Disk Drive from Spiral Tracks

Patent: 7,391,584 →

Application: 11/593,929 →

Head-Gimbal Assembly Including a Flexure Tongue with Adhesive Receptacles Disposed Adjacent to Stand-Offs

Patent: 7,995,310 →

Application: 11/595,526 →

Disk Drive Idle Mode Responsive to Flex Circuit Cable Bias Changes

Patent: 7,542,225 →

Application: 11/601,268 →

Screwdriver Comprising a Slider Having an Attached Screw Bit and a Position Detector for Position Feedback

Patent: 7,458,282 →

Application: 11/602,652 →

Methods, Devices and Systems for Screw Feeding by Vacuum and Gravity

Patent: 7,980,159 →

Application: 11/605,754 →

Disk Drive Housing Hole Seal Including a Conductive Layer with an Exposed Planar Surface Region

Patent: 7,709,078 →

Application: 11/607,716 →

Storage Subsystem with Multiple Non-Volatile Memory Arrays to Protect Against Data Losses

Patent: 8,549,236 →

Application: 11/611,705 →

Publication: US 2008/0147962

Disk Drive Servo Control Techniques to Preserve Pes Continuity

Patent: 7,616,399 →

Application: 11/635,904 →

Monitoring Device for Use with an Insulated Dual Portion Garment

Patent: 7,869,182 →

Application: 11/637,527 →

Storage Device Fixture with Simultaneous Unload Mechanism

Patent: 7,561,416 →

Application: 11/639,853 →

Vacuum Chuck Useful for Affixing Cover Seals to Hard Disk Drives

Patent: 7,690,705 →

Application: 11/644,404 →

Disk Drive with an Actuator Latch Having a Biasing Ball at Least Partially Within a Seating Cavity Adjoining a Retention Bore

Patent: 7,684,155 →

Application: 11/650,276 →

Disk Drive with Air Channel

Patent: 7,751,145 →

Application: 11/652,960 →

Storage Subsystem with Configurable Buffer

Patent: 7,596,643 →

Application: 11/672,435 →

Publication: US 2008/0189452

Method for Improved Repeatable Runout Learning in a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,643,976 →

Application: 11/700,380 →

Static Electricity Monitor Comprising a Walking Footpad Electrode and Handrail Electrode

Patent: 7,671,599 →

Application: 11/700,427 →

Disk Drive Demodulating a Time-Based Servo Pattern

Patent: 7,502,197 →

Application: 11/703,000 →

Component Receptacle to Segregate Components

Patent: 7,863,889 →

Application: 11/703,001 →

Wedge Based Fastener

Patent: 7,686,555 →

Application: 11/703,003 →

Servo Writing a Disk Drive from a Number of Spiral Tracks Equal to a Non-Integer Multiple of Product Servo Wedges

Patent: 7,468,855 →

Application: 11/704,430 →

Compensating for Thermal Expansion When Writing Spiral Tracks to a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,502,195 →

Application: 11/704,478 →

Suspension Assembly Including a Dimple That Contacts a Flexure Tongue Dielectric Layer Through a Hole in a Flexure Tongue Structural Layer

Patent: 7,864,488 →

Application: 11/717,299 →

Solid State Storage Subsystem for Embedded Applications

Patent: 7,685,337 →

Application: 11/753,477 →

Publication: US 2008/0294834

Solid State Storage Subsystem for Embedded Applications

Patent: 7,685,338 →

Application: 11/753,502 →

Publication: US 2008/0294835

Calibrating a Defect Scan Parameter for a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,656,763 →

Application: 11/757,824 →

Ramp Detection During Servo-Writing of a Disk for a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,869,155 →

Application: 11/760,601 →

Setting an Operating Bias Current for a Magnetoresistive Head Using Ratio of Target Voltage and Measured Voltage

Patent: 7,804,657 →

Application: 11/761,224 →

Methods and Devices for Printing and Affixing an Individual Label Onto an Item Having a Machine Readable Code Thereon

Patent: 8,168,033 →

Application: 11/761,828 →

Providing Pre-Determined Servo Position Correction Values for Use During Disk Drive Initialization

Patent: 7,492,546 →

Application: 11/762,620 →

Methods, Devices and Systems for Adaptively Driving Screws Using a Screw Driving Tool

Patent: 7,506,553 →

Application: 11/764,672 →

Disk Drive Having a High Performance Access Mode and a Lower Performance Archive Mode

Patent: 7,599,139 →

Application: 11/767,315 →

Disk Drive Refreshing Zones Based on Serpentine Access of Disk Surfaces

Patent: 7,872,822 →

Application: 11/768,288 →

Manufacturing Assembly for Manufacturing a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,653,983 →

Application: 11/768,430 →

Disk Drive Modifying an Update Function for a Refresh Monitor in Response to a Measured Duration

Patent: 7,672,072 →

Application: 11/769,411 →

Disk Drive Biasing a Refresh Monitor with Write Parameter of a Write Operation

Patent: 8,174,780 →

Application: 11/769,447 →

Disk Drive Deferring Refresh Based on Environmental Conditions

Patent: 7,649,704 →

Application: 11/769,655 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Predictive Caching Based on Temperature of Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 7,450,334 →

Application: 11/769,932 →

Apparatus and Method for Conductive Metal Ball Bonding with Electrostatic Discharge Detection

Patent: 7,896,218 →

Application: 11/770,328 →

Publication: US 2009/0001064

System and Method for Identifying Track Squeeze Errors (Tses) of a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,663,835 →

Application: 11/770,554 →

Disk Drive Employing Offset Compensation for Velocity Control of a Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 7,477,471 →

Application: 11/788,507 →

Disk Drive Servo Control Techniques for Predicting an Off-Track Condition Utilizing an Estimation Filter

Patent: 7,558,016 →

Application: 11/788,641 →

Disk Drive Controlling a Voice Coil Motor During an Emergency Unload

Patent: 7,548,392 →

Application: 11/804,819 →

Multi-Interface and Multi-Bus Structured Solid-State Storage Subsystem

Patent: 7,685,374 →

Application: 11/829,023 →

Publication: US 2009/0031073

Disk Drive Refreshing Zones in Segments to Sustain Target Throughput of Host Commands

Patent: 7,945,727 →

Application: 11/829,819 →

Publication: US 2009/0027799

Method to Detect Helium Leakage from a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,434,987 →

Application: 11/832,491 →

Disk Drive to Characterize Misaligned Servo Wedges

Patent: 7,551,390 →

Application: 11/842,315 →

Disk Drive Writing Wedge Rro Data Along a Sinusoidal Path to Compensate for Reader/Writer Offset

Patent: 7,583,470 →

Application: 11/847,110 →

Disk Drive Rewriting Servo Sectors by Writing and Servoing Off of Temporary Servo Data Written in Data Sectors

Patent: 7,518,819 →

Application: 11/849,029 →

Compensating for Non-Linear Thermal Expansion When Writing Spiral Tracks to a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,505,223 →

Application: 11/850,116 →

Storage Subsystem Capable of Adjusting Ecc Settings Based on Monitored Conditions

Patent: 8,095,851 →

Application: 11/851,288 →

Publication: US 2009/0070651

Oscillator Comprising Foldover Detection

Patent: 7,733,189 →

Application: 11/855,848 →

Disk Drive Including a Filter Component with Coarse and Fine Sections

Patent: 7,379,266 →

Application: 11/856,165 →

Disk Drive Including a Filter Component with Coarse and Fine Sections

Patent: 8,472,131 →

Application: 11/856,185 →

Disk Drive Initializing a Coil Temperature Estimation Algorithm Using a Resistance of the Coil Estimated During a Load Operation

Patent: 7,660,067 →

Application: 11/857,739 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Rotational Vibrations, Physical Shocks, and Thermal Popping

Patent: 7,471,483 →

Application: 11/857,768 →

Disk Drive Seeking to Od Track and Then Ramping Velocity to Implement Fast Unload

Patent: 7,573,670 →

Application: 11/862,825 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Latch with a Torsionally Compliant Pusher Portion

Patent: 7,957,102 →

Application: 11/866,772 →

Head Gimbal Assembly with Flexure Tail Having Bent Alignment Tab Feature

Patent: 7,907,369 →

Application: 11/870,525 →

Disk Drive Writing Wedge Rro Values in a Butterfly Pattern

Patent: 7,576,941 →

Application: 11/924,830 →

Disk Drive Adjusting a Defect Threshold When Scanning for Defective Sectors

Patent: 9,042,045 →

Application: 11/933,662 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Disk Surface Having Track Addresses of Varying Width

Patent: 7,688,538 →

Application: 11/941,467 →

Disk Drive Estimating a Servo Zone After Synchronously Detecting a Servo Sync Mark

Patent: 7,715,138 →

Application: 11/943,457 →

Pre-Programming of a Preamplifier in a Disk Drive to Improve Servo-Writing Characteristics

Patent: 7,656,603 →

Application: 11/948,019 →

Head Stack Assembly with Flexure Tail Retention Features

Patent: 8,064,168 →

Application: 11/948,840 →

Disk Drive Demodulating a Spiral Track by Finding a Maximum Correlation Between a Spiral Track Crossing Signal and a Time-Shifted Nominal Spiral Track Crossing Signal

Patent: 7,656,604 →

Application: 11/953,200 →

Servo Writer with Retract Capacitor for Generating a Vcm Driving Current During a Power Failure

Patent: 7,974,038 →

Application: 11/953,266 →

Publication: US 2009/0147396

Information Storage Device with Sheet Metal Projections and Elastomeric Inserts

Patent: 7,701,705 →

Application: 11/953,782 →

Disk Drive Selecting Tpi Profile by Estimating Head Geometry

Patent: 7,688,540 →

Application: 11/957,616 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Latch with a Cantilevered Stop Portion

Patent: 8,081,401 →

Application: 11/960,474 →

Multi-Cell Disk Drive Test System Providing a Power Recovery Mode

Patent: 8,078,421 →

Application: 11/960,658 →

Disk Drive Estimating Seek Time According to a Seek Profile and a Variance Group

Patent: 7,471,486 →

Application: 11/961,521 →

Blocking Formats for a Disk Drive That Reduce Performance

Patent: 8,085,487 →

Application: 11/961,725 →

Determining Head Non-Linearity in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,724,461 →

Application: 11/963,497 →

Feed Forward Compensation for Fly Height Control in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,839,595 →

Application: 12/020,432 →

Spiral Slope Approximation of Spiral Patterns Written to a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,852,592 →

Application: 12/021,976 →

Disk Drive Servoing Off of First Head While Determining Fly Height for Second Head

Patent: 7,630,162 →

Application: 12/025,676 →

Publication: US 2009/0195936

Disk Drive with Flex Cable Bracket Having Alignment Post by Flex Exit Location

Patent: 8,018,687 →

Application: 12/026,308 →

Solid State Storage Subsystem That Maintains and Provides Access to Data Reflective of a Failure Risk

Patent: 8,078,918 →

Application: 12/027,965 →

Publication: US 2009/0204852

Disk Drive Comprising Index Spiral Track Identified by Change in Sync Mark

Patent: 7,839,591 →

Application: 12/028,974 →

Interface for Enabling a Host Computer to Retrieve Device Monitor Data from a Solid State Storage Subsystem

Patent: 7,962,792 →

Application: 12/029,370 →

Publication: US 2009/0204853

Disk Drive Employing Boot Disk Space to Expedite the Boot Operation for a Host Computer

Patent: 8,082,433 →

Application: 12/030,042 →

Disk Drive Maintaining Multiple Logs to Expedite Boot Operation for a Host Computer

Patent: 7,900,037 →

Application: 12/030,074 →

Disk Drive Comprising Code Segments for Interfacing with a Component Such as a Read Channel

Patent: 7,934,030 →

Application: 12/031,442 →

Disk Drive Employing Pulse Width Modulation of Head Control Signal

Patent: 8,482,873 →

Application: 12/032,783 →

Servo Track Squeeze Compensation in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,639,447 →

Application: 12/032,911 →

Information Storage Device Having a Conductive Shield with a Peripheral Capacitive Flange

Patent: 8,390,952 →

Application: 12/036,106 →

Information Storage Device with a Bridge Controller and a Plurality of Electrically Coupled Conductive Shields

Patent: 8,004,791 →

Application: 12/036,123 →

Publication: US 2009/0213491

Transport Comb for Head Stack Assembly

Patent: 8,156,633 →

Application: 12/047,284 →

Writing High Frequency Pattern Over a Dc Background to Detect Skip Track Erasure for a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,094,401 →

Application: 12/049,557 →

Serial Interface Amplitude Selection for a Disk Drive in an Unknown Interconnect Environment

Patent: 8,014,977 →

Application: 12/051,733 →

Disk Drive Comprising Gray Code Implemented with Servo Bursts

Patent: 7,710,676 →

Application: 12/057,213 →

Disk Drive Decoding Binary Sequence from Phases of Servo Bursts

Patent: 7,916,415 →

Application: 12/057,278 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Trellis Detector Having a Read Signal Whitener in the Acs Circuit

Patent: 8,201,066 →

Application: 12/058,540 →

Serial Ata Device Implementing Intra-Command Processing by Detecting Xrdy Primitive While in the Xrdy State

Patent: 7,827,320 →

Application: 12/058,572 →

Using Device Control Field to Implement Non-Disruptive Notification of an Ata Device

Patent: 8,856,390 →

Application: 12/058,601 →

Head Stack Assembly with a Laminated Flexure Having a Snap-Through Feature

Patent: 8,194,355 →

Application: 12/117,049 →

Disk Drive Write Verifying Unformatted Data Sectors

Patent: 8,004,785 →

Application: 12/118,365 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Estimated Reader/Writer Offset to Achieve Target Burst Crossing Signal Amplitude When Propagating Servo Sectors

Patent: 7,602,575 →

Application: 12/120,382 →

Disk Drive Self Servo Writing Spiral Tracks by Propagating Bursts

Patent: 7,688,539 →

Application: 12/120,456 →

Selecting Highest Reliability Sync Mark in a Sync Mark Window of a Spiral Servo Track Crossing

Patent: 7,859,782 →

Application: 12/122,707 →

Controller and Method for Controlling a Buffered Data Transfer Device

Patent: 9,106,592 →

Application: 12/122,708 →

Method of Alternating Track Write for Defect Identification

Patent: 7,839,588 →

Application: 12/122,710 →

Storage Subsystem with Embedded Circuit for Protecting Against Anomalies in Power Signal from Host

Patent: 7,733,712 →

Application: 12/123,932 →

Disk Drive Toggling Vcm Inductor Compensation to Reduce Acoustic Noise

Patent: 8,988,811 →

Application: 12/126,377 →

Error Correction Code for Correcting Shift and Additive Errors

Patent: 8,078,943 →

Application: 12/126,839 →

Suspension Assembly Including a Flexure Tail with Staggered Rows of Apertures

Patent: 8,194,354 →

Application: 12/126,845 →

Method to Balance Spindles in a Plurality of Disk Drives

Patent: 7,916,599 →

Application: 12/126,849 →

Disk Drive Having a Head Loading/Unloading Ramp That Includes a Torsionally-Compliant Member

Patent: 8,203,806 →

Application: 12/135,454 →

Publication: US 2009/0303637

Servoing on Concentric Servo Sectors of a First Disk Surface to Write a Spiral Servo Track to a Second Disk Surface

Patent: 7,843,662 →

Application: 12/136,207 →

Switching Voltage Regulator Employing Dynamic Voltage Scaling with Hysteretic Comparator

Patent: 8,085,020 →

Application: 12/139,231 →

Method for Increasing a Processor Operating Frequency When Other Subsystem Demands Are Low

Patent: 8,078,901 →

Application: 12/140,238 →

Disk Drive Storing Parameters of a Write Operation in a Plurality of Data Sectors

Patent: 7,933,087 →

Application: 12/141,693 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Gain of Shock Detector Relative to Resonant Frequency Amplitude

Patent: 7,852,588 →

Application: 12/144,015 →

Detecting Startup Fault of Sdram Voltage Regulator

Patent: 9,063,714 →

Application: 12/144,062 →

Heating a Head Disk Assembly for a Time Interval Prior to Writing Spiral Servo Tracks to the Disk

Patent: 7,940,487 →

Application: 12/145,457 →

Detecting a Servo Address Mark (Sam) in a Servo Field Sync-Up Operation

Patent: 8,159,768 →

Application: 12/146,040 →

Reduced Acoustic Noise During Spin-Up by Driving a Spindle Motor Open Loop Using Sinusoidal Signals

Patent: 8,054,022 →

Application: 12/146,678 →

Disk Drive Actuator Having a C-Shaped Bobbin with Wings Adjacent Longitudinal Coil Legs

Patent: 8,189,298 →

Application: 12/163,815 →

Disk Drive Adapting Equalizer Relative to Bit Error Rate of Sequence Detector

Patent: 7,944,639 →

Application: 12/178,430 →

Disk Drive Adapting Target Values of a Sequence Detector Relative to Bit Error Rate of the Sequence Detector

Patent: 7,898,756 →

Application: 12/178,474 →

Disk Drive Employing Iterative Learning Control for Tuning Seek Servo Loop

Patent: 7,626,782 →

Application: 12/178,512 →

Disk Drive Base Having a Raised Thermal Pedestal

Patent: 8,363,351 →

Application: 12/181,469 →

Disk Drive Having a Vibration Absorber with Fixed Free Ends

Patent: 8,223,453 →

Application: 12/181,592 →

A Method of Manufacturing a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,322,021 →

Application: 12/184,120 →

Method to Assemble a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,926,167 →

Application: 12/188,886 →

Depopulated Head Stack Assembly Having a Necked Dummy Mass

Patent: 8,553,367 →

Application: 12/190,326 →

Method to Fabricate a Damped Suspension Assembly

Patent: 8,142,671 →

Application: 12/190,377 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Head Bias During Servo Synchronization to Compensate for Over/Under Sensitivity

Patent: 7,760,458 →

Application: 12/190,512 →

Head Stack Assembly with a Flexible Printed Circuit Having a Mouth Centered Between Arms

Patent: 9,324,346 →

Application: 12/195,288 →

Disk Drive Maintaining Multiple Copies of Code Segments

Patent: 8,190,575 →

Application: 12/199,091 →

Disk Drive Suspension Having a Constraint Layer and a Base Region with a Bridge Section Extending Across a Gap Between Lateral Sections

Patent: 8,159,785 →

Application: 12/199,757 →

Information Storage Device with a Conductive Shield Having Free and Forced Heat Convection Configurations

Patent: 8,164,849 →

Application: 12/201,460 →

Disk Drive Including a Delay Circuit to Provide a Delayed Reset Signal

Patent: 7,907,364 →

Application: 12/201,571 →

Publication: US 2010/0053796

Method of Staging Small Writes on a Large Sector Disk Drive

Patent: 8,006,027 →

Application: 12/209,081 →

Information Storage Device Having a Disk Drive and a Bridge Controller Pcb Within a Monolithic Conductive Nest

Patent: 7,940,491 →

Application: 12/211,037 →

Publication: US 2010/0067344

Configuring a Data Storage Device with a Parameter File Interlocked with Configuration Code

Patent: 9,009,358 →

Application: 12/236,278 →

Disk Drive Comprising Slanted Line Servo Bursts Having a Varying Tilt Angle

Patent: 7,916,416 →

Application: 12/240,212 →

Disk Drive Comprising Slanted Line Servo Bursts Having Reverse Polarity Segments

Patent: 7,746,595 →

Application: 12/240,254 →

Disk Drive Comprising Slanted Line Servo Burst Sets Offset Radially

Patent: 7,746,594 →

Application: 12/240,374 →

Purge Operations for Solid-State Storage Devices

Patent: 7,936,603 →

Application: 12/240,579 →

Publication: US 2009/0031095

Disk Drive Updating Estimate of Voice Coil Resistance to Account for Resistance Change Prior to Unload Operation

Patent: 7,876,522 →

Application: 12/241,814 →

Cast Baseplate for a Disk Drive Having an Arcuate Shroud Wall and Adjacent Arcuate Groove

Patent: 8,009,384 →

Application: 12/242,096 →

Calibrated Vision Based Robotic System

Patent: 8,180,487 →

Application: 12/242,239 →

Disk Drive with Stepped Motor Hub

Patent: 8,416,522 →

Application: 12/243,788 →

Disk Drive Seeking with a Fixed Rate Clock When Crossing Servo Zones to Facilitate Zoned Servo Sectors

Patent: 7,929,238 →

Application: 12/251,219 →

Disk Drive Enclosure with a Sliding Door Having Tabs with Adjacent Through-Slots

Patent: 7,768,776 →

Application: 12/253,520 →

Configuring a Data Storage Device with a Configuration Data Record Set in Response to a Configuration Code

Patent: 7,984,200 →

Application: 12/253,832 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Servo Accelerator Employing a Dual State Variable Memory

Patent: 7,656,607 →

Application: 12/255,453 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Servo Accelerator Implementing State Space Equations for a Plurality of Task Objects

Patent: 7,697,233 →

Application: 12/255,542 →

Head Switch Operation for a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,679,854 →

Application: 12/260,919 →

Closed Loop Control of Adhesive Dot Characteristics

Application: 12/265,313 →

Publication: US 2010/0108256

Disk Drive Comprising Stacked and Stepped Traces for Improved Transmission Line Performance

Patent: 8,289,656 →

Application: 12/273,725 →

Disk Drive Employing Repeatable Disturbance Compensation for Fly Height Control

Patent: 7,675,707 →

Application: 12/275,989 →

Disk Drive Employing Coarse Position Feedback from Mechanical Position Sensor to Improve Format Efficiency

Patent: 7,701,661 →

Application: 12/277,040 →

Disk Drive Employing Coarse Position Feedback from Mechanical Position Sensor to Improve Format Efficiency

Patent: 7,760,461 →

Application: 12/277,099 →

Disk Drive Determining Operating Fly Height by Detecting Head Disk Contact from Read Signal Amplitude Variance

Patent: 8,934,192 →

Application: 12/277,142 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Erasure Window Based on a Number of Non-Read Data Sectors During a Retry Operation

Patent: 7,843,660 →

Application: 12/277,587 →

Architecture for Optimizing Execution of Storage Access Commands

Patent: 8,825,940 →

Application: 12/326,780 →

Correcting Servo Sectors in a Disk Drive

Patent: 7,800,853 →

Application: 12/327,560 →

Disk Drive and Method Using Native Command Queuing Tags to Identify Logical Block Size and Implement Protection Information

Patent: 8,285,923 →

Application: 12/330,375 →

Publication: US 2010/0146203

Hda Vacuum Cleaning Machine for Manufacturing of Hdd

Patent: 8,387,631 →

Application: 12/332,029 →

Extracting Repeatable Phase Error from a Spindle Motor Back Emf Signal to Generate a Servo Write Clock

Patent: 7,688,534 →

Application: 12/333,016 →

Disk Drive Comprising Preamble Aligned Zoned Servo Sectors

Patent: 8,116,023 →

Application: 12/335,291 →

Disk Drive Executing Retry Operation After Adjusting Jog Value in Response to Gain Control

Patent: 8,116,025 →

Application: 12/338,798 →

Disk Drive Employing Different Servo Tpi to Data Tpi Ratios Across the Disk Surface

Patent: 7,982,993 →

Application: 12/340,309 →

Write Jog Value Determination for a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,000,053 →

Application: 12/343,285 →

System for Assembling a Disk Drive Using a Robotic End Effector

Patent: 7,987,585 →

Application: 12/349,053 →

Systems and Methods for Improving the Performance of Non-Volatile Memory Operations

Patent: 9,176,859 →

Application: 12/350,180 →

Publication: US 2010/0174849

Disk Drive Establishing Write Current Limits Prior to Optimizing the Write Current for a Plurality of Tracks

Patent: 7,933,090 →

Application: 12/353,707 →

Method of Using a Tooling Mandrel for Assembling a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,307,537 →

Application: 12/353,757 →

Calibrated Vision Based Robotic System Utilizing Upward and Downward Looking Cameras

Patent: 8,135,208 →

Application: 12/354,506 →

Static Electricity Monitoring Device Comprising a First Footpad Electrically Insulated from a Second Footpad

Patent: 7,869,183 →

Application: 12/356,204 →

Disk Drive Estimating Fly Height Using a Pll Tuned by a Fly Height Capacitance

Patent: 7,729,079 →

Application: 12/356,701 →

Evaluating Distribution of Peak Signals Representing Reference Track Crossings to Compensate for Thermal Expansion When Writing Spiral Tracks to a Disk

Patent: 7,864,481 →

Application: 12/359,979 →

Methods and Devices for Picking and Placing Workpieces into Small Form Factor Hard Disk Drives

Patent: 8,561,285 →

Application: 12/370,402 →

Command Portal for Executing Non-Standard Storage Subsystem Commands

Patent: 8,583,835 →

Application: 12/370,420 →

Disk Drive Detecting Defective Spiral Servo Track

Patent: 7,746,592 →

Application: 12/371,434 →

Disk Drive Computing Data Center Off-Track from Repeatable Runout of Write Servo Track and Read Servo Track

Patent: 7,961,422 →

Application: 12/388,644 →

Disk Drive Returning Dummy Data to a Host When Reading an Unwritten Data Sector

Patent: 7,852,596 →

Application: 12/392,822 →

Publication: US 2010/0214682

Disk Drive Calibrating Vcm Notch Filter by Increasing the Width and/or the Depth of the Notch

Patent: 7,864,482 →

Application: 12/394,406 →

Disk Drive Having a Top Cover with Anchor Tabs

Patent: 8,031,431 →

Application: 12/396,342 →

Head Stack Assembly with Suspension Tail Bond Alignment by Solder Pin

Patent: 8,279,560 →

Application: 12/397,878 →

Solid State Drive Power Safe Wear-Leveling

Patent: 8,090,899 →

Application: 12/398,093 →

Systems and Methods for Reducing Unauthorized Data Recovery from Solid-State Storage Devices

Patent: 7,898,855 →

Application: 12/399,654 →

Publication: US 2009/0196100

Condensing a Defect Scan Log for a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,040,625 →

Application: 12/399,762 →

Zoned Servo System

Patent: 8,213,106 →

Application: 12/401,494 →

Data Storage Device Employing High Quality Metrics When Decoding Logical Block Address Appended to a Data Sector

Patent: 8,413,010 →

Application: 12/403,257 →

Head Stack Assembly with Suspension Tails Extending into Interfering Slits in a Flexible Printed Circuit

Patent: 8,068,314 →

Application: 12/406,830 →

Tester with Virtual Ground

Patent: 8,004,782 →

Application: 12/407,619 →

Disk Drive Recovering Multiple Codewords in Data Sectors Using Progressively Higher Order Parity Codewords

Patent: 8,375,274 →

Application: 12/408,989 →

Systems and Methods for Segmenting and Protecting a Storage Subystem

Patent: 7,912,991 →

Application: 12/409,174 →

Adjusting Access of Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Based on Access Time

Patent: 10,079,048 →

Application: 12/410,304 →

Publication: US 2010/0250793

Disk Drive Flushing Write Cache to a Nearest Set of Reserved Tracks During a Power Failure

Patent: 7,800,856 →

Application: 12/410,338 →

Disk Drive Prioritizing in-the-Field Defect Scanning Based on Number of Write Operations in Each of a Plurality of Defect Zones

Patent: 7,929,234 →

Application: 12/413,408 →

Disk Drive Having a Stationary Plate Facing a Disk and with a Recirculation Filter Coupled to Grooves in the Stationary Plate

Patent: 7,957,095 →

Application: 12/419,142 →

Storage Device Implementing Data Path Protection by Encoding Large Host Blocks into Sub Blocks

Patent: 8,433,977 →

Application: 12/422,738 →

Command Portal for Securely Communicating and Executing Non-Standard Storage Subsystem Commands

Patent: 8,375,151 →

Application: 12/425,992 →

Disk Drive Mapping Entries of a Defect List into Clusters

Patent: 8,116,020 →

Application: 12/427,627 →

Disk Placement and Storage Assembly with Disk Cassette and Disk Slotter

Patent: 8,453,841 →

Application: 12/429,079 →

Output Capacitor Current as Feedback to Control a Hysteretic Voltage Regulator

Patent: 8,358,114 →

Application: 12/431,175 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Voice Coil Resistance for Velocity Control of Voice Coil Motor

Patent: 7,800,857 →

Application: 12/433,572 →

Disk Drive Employing Data-Based Basis Function Expansion for Tuning Seek Servo Loop

Patent: 7,839,600 →

Application: 12/434,979 →

Method and Apparatus for Washing, Etching, Rinsing, and Plating Substrates

Patent: 8,267,831 →

Application: 12/468,802 →

Method for Assembling a Head Stack Assembly with a Disk Drive Base Utilizing a Tooling Mandrel

Patent: 7,743,486 →

Application: 12/470,345 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Command Execution in Response to Control Circuitry Die Temperature

Patent: 8,090,902 →

Application: 12/471,104 →

Delaying Unload Operation When Rate of Unloads Exceeds a Time Varying Unload Limit

Patent: 9,117,481 →

Application: 12/471,265 →

Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Load Beam Aperature Over Conductive Heating Pads That Are Offset from Head Bonding Pads

Patent: 8,218,268 →

Application: 12/472,634 →

Method to Replace Gas in a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,199,425 →

Application: 12/475,298 →

Physically Modifying a Data Storage Device to Disable Access to Secure Data and Repurpose the Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,838,995 →

Application: 12/475,340 →

Publication: US 2010/0306551

Disk Drive Adjusting Fly Height Based on Air Density Measured from Rate of Temperature Change

Patent: 8,947,822 →

Application: 12/478,606 →

Disk Drive Configuring Power Mode of Disk Drive Relative to Servo Gate

Patent: 9,082,419 →

Application: 12/480,576 →

Dynamic Processor Bandwidth Allocation in Response to Environmental Conditions

Patent: 8,090,906 →

Application: 12/482,220 →

Automatic Gravity Vacuum Screw Feeding

Patent: 8,230,570 →

Application: 12/484,032 →

Vibration Test Apparatus with an Actuator Coupled to a Reaction Mass Movable Along a Linear Axis

Patent: 8,100,017 →

Application: 12/484,679 →

Mechanically Decoupled Status Lens

Patent: 8,064,194 →

Application: 12/485,866 →

Publication: US 2010/0315923

Disk Drive to Reduce Head Instability

Patent: 7,974,039 →

Application: 12/486,682 →

Disk Drive Having Mounting Inserts with Cantilevered Beams

Patent: 8,300,352 →

Application: 12/487,502 →

Self-Heating Integrated Circuit

Patent: 8,358,145 →

Application: 12/488,484 →

Data Storage Device Comprising a Secure Processor for Maintaining Plaintext Access to an Lba Table

Patent: 8,356,184 →

Application: 12/491,441 →

Disk Drive Generating Actual Data Tpi Profile by Combining Segments of Predetermined Data Tpi Profiles

Patent: 8,031,423 →

Application: 12/492,443 →

Dual-State Clamping Mechanism

Patent: 8,098,460 →

Application: 12/494,869 →

Method of Fabricating Disk Drives Using a Common Disk Drive Base with an Attached Weight Plate, and a Disk Drive Including the Same

Patent: 7,903,369 →

Application: 12/496,542 →

Head Gimbal Assembly Mounting Mechanism

Patent: 8,094,414 →

Application: 12/500,546 →

Disk Drive Biasing Refresh Zone Counters Based on Write Commands

Patent: 7,974,029 →

Application: 12/533,950 →

Publication: US 2011/0026159

System and Method to Reduce Write Splice Failures

Patent: 8,370,683 →

Application: 12/533,993 →

Soft Start Sequencer for Starting Multiple Voltage Regulators

Patent: 8,145,934 →

Application: 12/534,052 →

Switching Voltage Regulator Employing Current Pre-Adjust Based on Power Mode

Patent: 8,912,778 →

Application: 12/534,072 →

Automatically Transmitting a Web Browser File Over the Internet When Booting an Operating System from a Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,588,936 →

Application: 12/534,076 →

Automatically Configuring a Web Browser File When Booting an Operating System from a Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,914,625 →

Application: 12/534,083 →

Disk Drive Initializing Position Feedforward Compensation with Velocity Feedforward Compensation

Patent: 7,876,523 →

Application: 12/537,974 →

Energy Assisted Discrete Track Media with Heat Sink

Patent: 8,247,095 →

Application: 12/545,692 →

Publication: US 2011/0043941

Disk Drive Expediting Defect Scan When Quality Metric Exceeds a More Stringent Threshold

Patent: 8,014,094 →

Application: 12/551,207 →

Disk Drive Comprising Impedance Discontinuity Compensation for Interconnect Transmission Lines

Patent: 8,462,466 →

Application: 12/551,425 →

Publication: US 2011/0051292

Disk Drive Connecting Defect Shapes to Preempt Data Loss

Patent: 8,149,528 →

Application: 12/552,912 →

Data Storage Device Overlapping Host Data Transfer for a Write Command with Inter-Command Delay

Patent: 8,631,188 →

Application: 12/553,012 →

Method and System for Coupling a Laser with a Slider in an Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording Disk Drive

Patent: 8,024,748 →

Application: 12/556,464 →

Disk Drive Including an Actuator Latch Having a Defeat Position

Patent: 8,477,460 →

Application: 12/562,952 →

Pivot Assisted Storage Device Unloading Mechanism

Patent: 8,113,873 →

Application: 12/564,824 →

Storage Subsystem with Configurable Buffer

Patent: 8,151,020 →

Application: 12/566,453 →

Publication: US 2010/0017542

Method and System for Performing Eamr Recording at High Density Using a Large Thermal Spot Size

Patent: 8,385,157 →

Application: 12/570,975 →

Wear Leveling Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Based on Erase Times and Program Times

Patent: 8,254,172 →

Application: 12/571,264 →

Refreshing Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory by Reading Without Rewriting

Patent: 8,243,525 →

Application: 12/571,330 →

Method for Manufacturing a Disk Drive Microactuator That Includes a Piezoelectric Element and a Peripheral Encapsulation Layer

Patent: 8,756,776 →

Application: 12/579,263 →

Disk Drive Excluding Servo Sub-Bursts When Computing Position Error Signal

Patent: 7,898,762 →

Application: 12/582,863 →

Storage Device Assembly Fixture

Patent: 8,707,531 →

Application: 12/604,145 →

Disk Drive Characterizing Microactuator by Injecting Sinusoidal Disturbance and Evaluating Feed-Forward Compensation Values

Patent: 9,142,235 →

Application: 12/606,819 →

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Segregating Sequential, Random, and System Data to Reduce Garbage Collection for Page Based Mapping

Patent: 9,753,847 →

Application: 12/607,011 →

Publication: US 2011/0099323

Disk Drive Selecting a Global Digital-to-Analog Setting for a Plurality of Heads

Patent: 8,780,473 →

Application: 12/608,871 →

Apparatus Comprising a Brown-Out Protection Circuit for Memory Devices

Patent: 8,351,174 →

Application: 12/608,918 →

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Comprising Power Fail Circuitry for Flushing Write Data in Response to a Power Fail Signal

Patent: 8,261,012 →

Application: 12/610,073 →

Publication: US 2011/0107012

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Compressing Data to Improve Performance

Patent: 8,135,903 →

Application: 12/610,129 →

Disk Spindle Assembly Cartridge

Patent: 8,218,256 →

Application: 12/610,206 →

Head Stack Assembly Cartridge

Patent: 8,270,118 →

Application: 12/610,220 →

Method of Manufacturing a Disk Drive Using a Media Cover

Patent: 7,921,543 →

Application: 12/611,032 →

Publication: US 2010/0095516

Data Manipulation Engine

Patent: 8,281,218 →

Application: 12/611,078 →

Ramp Detection by Profile Sweep Method Utilizing Integrator Values

Patent: 8,315,005 →

Application: 12/614,166 →

Data Storage System Comprising a Mapping Bridge for Aligning Host Block Size with Physical Block Size of a Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,255,661 →

Application: 12/618,667 →

Publication: US 2011/0119464

Aligning Data Storage Device Partition to Boundary of Physical Data Sector

Patent: 8,285,965 →

Application: 12/623,370 →

Publication: US 2011/0125977

Wedge Based Fastener

Patent: 8,870,507 →

Application: 12/628,887 →

Adaptive Shock Detection

Patent: 8,179,626 →

Application: 12/631,716 →

Access and Control System for Network-Enabled Devices

Patent: 8,341,275 →

Application: 12/633,189 →

Disk Drive Margining Read Channel Using Predictable Disturbance Samples Generated as a Function of a Written Pattern

Patent: 7,990,648 →

Application: 12/634,506 →

Manufacturing Station Dynamically Configuring a Data Storage Device with a Validated Configuration Data Record

Patent: 8,489,841 →

Application: 12/635,487 →

Memory Protection

Patent: 8,375,225 →

Application: 12/636,257 →

Data Storage Device Employing Data Path Protection Using Both Lba and Pba

Patent: 8,397,107 →

Application: 12/636,614 →

Continuous Digital Offset Cancellation

Patent: 8,081,395 →

Application: 12/638,858 →

Data Storage Device Employing a Run-Length Mapping Table and a Single Address Mapping Table

Patent: 8,443,167 →

Application: 12/639,794 →

Disk Drive Margining Read Channel by Biasing Log-Likelihood Ratios of an Iterative Decoder

Patent: 8,589,773 →

Application: 12/641,899 →

Semiconductor Die Including a Current Routing Line Having Non-Metallic Slots

Patent: 8,432,031 →

Application: 12/645,026 →

Balancer Swivel Arm Assembly

Patent: 8,424,824 →

Application: 12/645,410 →

Portable Content Container Displaying a/V Files in Response to a Command Received from a Consumer Device

Patent: 8,526,798 →

Application: 12/646,927 →

Publication: US 2011/0150436

Disk Drive Housing Hole Seal Including a Conductive Layer with an Exposed Planar Surface Region

Patent: 8,530,032 →

Application: 12/651,944 →

Fly Height Sensor Control Circuit

Patent: 8,139,310 →

Application: 12/683,364 →

Adaptive Threshold for Detecting Touchdown or Contamination

Patent: 8,665,546 →

Application: 12/684,045 →

Disk Pack Balancing Station

Patent: 7,874,424 →

Application: 12/685,564 →

Systems and Methods for Measuring the Useful Life of Solid-State Storage Devices

Patent: 8,122,185 →

Application: 12/688,815 →

Publication: US 2010/0122200

Data Storage Device Employing Seed Array for Data Path Protection

Patent: 8,578,242 →

Application: 12/696,950 →

Media Defect Scan

Patent: 8,094,396 →

Application: 12/704,105 →

Hard Drive Particle Cleaning System and Method

Patent: 8,451,578 →

Application: 12/705,520 →

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Segregating Sequential Data During Garbage Collection to Reduce Write Amplification

Patent: 8,316,176 →

Application: 12/707,552 →

Media Flip and Cassette Exchange Apparatus and Method

Patent: 8,485,772 →

Application: 12/711,985 →

Disk Drive Having a Conformal Laminated Cover Seal Adhered to a Top Face and Four Side Faces of a Helium-Filled Enclosure

Application: 12/714,297 →

Publication: US 2011/0212281

Sealed Laminated Electrical Connector for Helium Filled Disk Drive

Patent: 8,194,348 →

Application: 12/714,328 →

Publication: US 2011/0211279

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Storing an Inverse Map for Rebuilding a Translation Table

Patent: 8,407,449 →

Application: 12/714,350 →

Adaptive Data Writing Mode Based on Drive Environment

Patent: 8,315,006 →

Application: 12/720,568 →

Electronic Display Assembly Comprising a Display Mount and a Flex Circuit Wrapped Around and Adhered to the Display Mount

Patent: 8,358,395 →

Application: 12/720,602 →

Adjusting Rotation Speed of Disk to Reduce Fly Height Modulation When Servo Writing in Gas

Patent: 9,214,188 →

Application: 12/723,451 →

Multi-Interface and Multi-Bus Structured Solid-State Storage Subsystem

Patent: 8,166,245 →

Application: 12/725,139 →

Publication: US 2010/0174856

Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Electrically Connected to a Gold Coating on a Stainless Steel Surface

Patent: 8,542,465 →

Application: 12/725,730 →

Publication: US 2011/0228425

Disk Drive Framing Write Data with in-Line Mapping Data During Write Operations

Patent: 8,194,340 →

Application: 12/727,127 →

Disk Drive Detecting Positive Correlation in Fly Height Measurements

Patent: 8,320,069 →

Application: 12/727,154 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Fly Height When Calibrating Head/Disk Contact

Patent: 8,059,357 →

Application: 12/727,166 →

Systems and Methods for Improving Sequential Data Rate Performance Using Sorted Data Zones

Patent: 8,687,306 →

Application: 12/729,159 →

Data Storage Device Adjusting Command Rate Profile Based on Operating Mode

Patent: 9,959,209 →

Application: 12/730,078 →

System and Method for Managing the Execution of Memory Commands in a Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,725,931 →

Application: 12/732,951 →

Bulk Erase Tool to Erase a Perpendicular Media Recording Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,379,363 →

Application: 12/748,068 →

Systems and Methods for Gripping a Component

Patent: 8,162,366 →

Application: 12/748,297 →

Data Storage Device Tester

Patent: 8,626,463 →

Application: 12/749,243 →

Publication: US 2011/0154112

Data Storage Device Tester

Patent: 8,332,695 →

Application: 12/749,279 →

Publication: US 2011/0149424

Data Storage Device Tester

Patent: 8,458,526 →

Application: 12/749,309 →

Publication: US 2011/0154113

Managing Wear Leveling and Garbage Collection Operations in a Solid-State Memory Using Linked Lists

Patent: 8,713,066 →

Application: 12/749,329 →

Correlation Standard for Calibrating a Scanning Electron Microscope

Patent: 8,596,107 →

Application: 12/750,472 →

Data Storage Device Booting from System Data Loaded by Host

Patent: 8,341,337 →

Application: 12/751,696 →

Parallel Media Defect Scan in Sector Read

Patent: 8,194,338 →

Application: 12/751,947 →

Screwdriver Sleeve Finder

Patent: 8,245,601 →

Application: 12/752,006 →

Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly with Clip for Mounting a Flex Cable

Patent: 7,961,436 →

Application: 12/762,233 →

Test Ramp for Testing Microactuators Used in a Multi-Head Disk Drive

Patent: 8,499,652 →

Application: 12/764,800 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Preamp for Servo Sectors and Data Sectors

Patent: 8,223,448 →

Application: 12/765,553 →

Disk Drive Biasing Timing Recovery Measurements for Spiral Tracks Based on Radial Location of Head

Patent: 8,498,076 →

Application: 12/765,620 →

Touchdown Detection

Patent: 8,593,753 →

Application: 12/765,800 →

Disk Drive Detecting Head Touchdown from Microactuator Signal

Patent: 8,144,419 →

Application: 12/766,668 →

Method for Providing Asynchronous Event Notification in Systems

Patent: 8,631,284 →

Application: 12/772,101 →

Publication: US 2011/0271151

Disk Drive Cross Correlating Track Crossing Signal with Ideal Signal to Calibrate Jog Value

Patent: 8,305,705 →

Application: 12/774,570 →

Disk Drive Having a Head Loading Ramp and a Disk Limiter Tab That Projects from a Side of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 8,743,509 →

Application: 12/777,152 →

System and Method for Managing Execution of Internal Commands and Host Commands in a Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,782,327 →

Application: 12/777,771 →

Disk Drive Actuator Having a Bobbin Contacting a Closed Coil Periphery at Two Locations

Patent: 8,125,740 →

Application: 12/778,033 →

System and Method for Managing Garbage Collection in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 9,026,716 →

Application: 12/778,740 →

Publication: US 2011/0283049

Depopulated Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having a Necked Dummy Mass with Relief Alcoves

Patent: 8,116,038 →

Application: 12/779,225 →

Disk Drive Employing Comb Filter for Repeatable Fly Height Compensation

Patent: 7,916,420 →

Application: 12/780,075 →

Transferring Media Files Between Users After Encrypting with Encryption Key Obtained from a Digital Rights Management Server

Patent: 10,289,809 →

Application: 12/781,365 →

Disk Drive Suspension Assembly with a Hinge Arm Attached at a Recessed Surface

Patent: 7,898,770 →

Application: 12/782,555 →

Refresh Operations Using Write/Read Commands

Patent: 8,320,067 →

Application: 12/782,681 →

Disk Drive Comprising an Interconnect with Transmission Lines Forming an Approximated Lattice Network

Patent: 8,467,151 →

Application: 12/785,150 →

Disk Drive Employing Velocity Insensitive Servo Burst Pattern

Patent: 8,189,286 →

Application: 12/785,307 →

Address Optimized Buffer Transfer Requests

Patent: 8,392,689 →

Application: 12/786,391 →

Disk Drive Employing a Preamp Comprising Read/Write Pass Throughs for Cascading Integrated Circuits

Patent: 8,390,948 →

Application: 12/788,152 →

Publication: US 2011/0292534

Debugger Interface

Patent: 8,161,328 →

Application: 12/789,394 →

Disk Drive Rotating Phase Based Servo Bursts Based on Radial Location of Head

Patent: 7,916,422 →

Application: 12/790,608 →

Injection Molding with Controlled Part Flexing

Patent: 8,133,426 →

Application: 12/790,721 →

Finding Touchdown Frequency for a Head in a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,089,719 →

Application: 12/791,546 →

Disk Drive Having a Shroud Wall That Completely Encircles a Disk Outer Periphery

Patent: 9,449,649 →

Application: 12/792,873 →

An Assembly Tool System

Patent: 8,327,529 →

Application: 12/794,678 →

Disk Drive Detecting Crack in Microactuator

Patent: 8,335,049 →

Application: 12/794,891 →

Method to Assemble Disk Drive

Patent: 8,438,721 →

Application: 12/797,517 →

Disk Drive Detecting Defective Microactuator

Patent: 8,547,657 →

Application: 12/797,883 →

Hybrid Drive Garbage Collecting a Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory by Migrating Valid Data to a Disk

Patent: 8,341,339 →

Application: 12/814,662 →

Timeline Application for Log Structured Storage Devices

Patent: 8,554,741 →

Application: 12/816,920 →

Methods and Systems for Fast Release of Data from a Host by a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,134,793 →

Application: 12/818,085 →

Systems for Fastening a Head Stack to a Hard Drive Base Assembly

Patent: 8,640,328 →

Application: 12/819,123 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Radial Phase Change of Repeatable Position Error Due to Servo Writing from Spiral Tracks

Patent: 8,059,360 →

Application: 12/820,536 →

Disk Drive Detecting When Head Is Parked on Ramp

Patent: 8,072,703 →

Application: 12/821,310 →

Disk Drive Correcting Position Error Signal Based on Velocity of Head

Patent: 8,077,428 →

Application: 12/821,360 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Limiter That Is Disposed Within an Angular Range Relative to a Base Depression Brim

Patent: 8,289,646 →

Application: 12/822,452 →

Disk Drive Detecting Disk Boundaries Using Microactuator

Patent: 8,300,348 →

Application: 12/823,359 →

Data Storage Device Comprising Host Interface State Machine Blocking on Target Logical Block Address

Patent: 8,380,922 →

Application: 12/823,437 →

Shipping Comb and Ramp for Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 8,248,733 →

Application: 12/823,965 →

System and Method for Performing Data Retention in Solid-State Memory Using Copy Commands and Validity and Usage Data

Patent: 8,612,669 →

Application: 12/824,434 →

Disk Drive Having a Clamp Fastener with a Convex Head

Patent: 8,284,514 →

Application: 12/824,538 →

Disk Drive Steering Write Data to Write Cache Based on Workload

Patent: 8,959,284 →

Application: 12/824,959 →

Disk Drive Crash Stop Including a Helical Portion

Patent: 8,320,086 →

Application: 12/825,232 →

Disk Drive with Multi-Zone Arm Damper

Patent: 8,432,641 →

Application: 12/825,392 →

System and Method for Managing Data Access in Non-Volatile Memory

Patent: 8,447,920 →

Application: 12/825,779 →

Disk Drive with Transverse Plane Damper

Patent: 8,345,387 →

Application: 12/826,371 →

Disk Drive with Added External Labyrinth Path During Servo Track Writing

Patent: 8,665,555 →

Application: 12/826,474 →

Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Bonded to a Flexure

Patent: 8,339,748 →

Application: 12/826,550 →

Publication: US 2011/0317309

Drive with Circumferential Disk Limiter

Patent: 8,446,688 →

Application: 12/826,561 →

Reading Multiple Metadata Files Across Multiple Tracks

Patent: 8,621,133 →

Application: 12/826,602 →

Disk Drive Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle

Patent: 8,411,389 →

Application: 12/826,640 →

Disk Drive with Balance Plug Having Longitudinal Retainers

Patent: 8,369,044 →

Application: 12/826,667 →

Publication: US 2012/0002324

Disk Drive with a Spherical Balance Plug

Patent: 8,437,101 →

Application: 12/826,671 →

Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Grounded to a Flexure

Patent: 8,665,567 →

Application: 12/827,813 →

Publication: US 2012/0002329

System and Method for Optimizing Garbage Collection in Data Storage

Patent: 8,521,972 →

Application: 12/827,931 →

Disk Drive Component Test System

Patent: 8,432,630 →

Application: 12/828,086 →

Hard Drive Assembly Tools for Evacuating Particles

Patent: 8,356,384 →

Application: 12/828,094 →

Disk Drive with Asymmetric Tolerance Ring

Patent: 8,416,534 →

Application: 12/828,103 →

Disk Drive Actuator Latch Including an Integrally Formed Engagement Portion That Engages and Limits Rotation of a Disk Drive Actuator

Patent: 8,488,280 →

Application: 12/828,126 →

Automated Transitions Power Modes While Continuously Powering a Power Controller and Powering Down a Media Controller for at Least One of the Power Modes

Patent: 8,433,937 →

Application: 12/828,131 →

Systems and Methods for Assembly Tool Calibration Verification

Patent: 8,447,430 →

Application: 12/828,140 →

Hard Drive Assembly Tool Calibration Verification

Patent: 8,447,551 →

Application: 12/828,184 →

Data Storage Apparatus Providing Host Full Duplex Operations Using Half Duplex Storage Devices

Patent: 8,762,682 →

Application: 12/830,263 →

Dynamic Auto-Registration and Transcoding of Media Content Devices via Network Attached Storage

Patent: 9,525,712 →

Application: 12/847,096 →

High Speed Electrical Connector with Improved Emi Suppression and Mechanical Retention Shield

Patent: 9,831,612 →

Application: 12/852,417 →

Methods and Systems for a Personal Multimedia Content Archive

Patent: 10,019,741 →

Application: 12/853,239 →

Publication: US 2012/0036041

Disk Drive Seeding Data Path Protection with System Data Seed

Patent: 8,194,341 →

Application: 12/883,402 →

Visual Indicator of Online Backup

Patent: 8,713,265 →

Application: 12/887,341 →

Hybrid Drive Executing Biased Migration Policy During Host Boot to Migrate Data to a Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,825,976 →

Application: 12/892,775 →

Hybrid Drive Writing Copy of Data to Disk When Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Nears End of Life

Patent: 8,825,977 →

Application: 12/892,837 →

Hybrid Drive Changing Power Mode of Disk Channel When Frequency of Write Data Exceeds a Threshold

Patent: 8,670,205 →

Application: 12/894,058 →

Disk Drive Selecting Head for Write Operation Based on Environmental Condition

Patent: 8,699,171 →

Application: 12/895,056 →

Disk Drive Correlating Different Fly Height Measurements to Verify Disk Warpage

Patent: 8,300,338 →

Application: 12/895,115 →

Systems and Methods for Coupling Screwdrivers to Screw Finders

Patent: 8,424,418 →

Application: 12/895,238 →

Disk Drive Implementing a Read Channel Optimization Process

Patent: 8,310,775 →

Application: 12/895,443 →

Disk Drive Aperture Channel

Patent: 8,422,175 →

Application: 12/895,625 →

System and Method for Improving Wear-Leveling Performance in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,612,804 →

Application: 12/895,691 →

Systems and Methods for Connecting Multiple Hard Drives

Patent: 8,369,073 →

Application: 12/895,816 →

Publication: US 2012/0081851

Throttled Command Completion Time

Patent: 8,271,692 →

Application: 12/895,851 →

Actuator Trace Through a Die

Patent: 8,422,172 →

Application: 12/895,854 →

Writing Metadata Files on a Disk

Patent: 8,954,664 →

Application: 12/895,855 →

Hybrid Drive Employing Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory to Facilitate Refreshing Disk

Patent: 8,429,343 →

Application: 12/909,555 →

Hybrid Drive Storing Write Data in Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory If Write Verify of Disk Fails

Patent: 8,612,798 →

Application: 12/909,624 →

Hybrid Drive Storing Copy of Data in Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory for Suspect Disk Data Sectors

Patent: 8,427,771 →

Application: 12/909,695 →

Hybrid Drive Storing Redundant Copies of Data on Disk and in Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Based on Read Frequency

Patent: 8,560,759 →

Application: 12/911,564 →

Hybrid Drive Selectively Spinning Up Disk When Powered On

Patent: 9,069,475 →

Application: 12/912,662 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Folded Bond Pads

Patent: 8,467,153 →

Application: 12/916,237 →

Methods and Systems for a Portable Data Locker

Patent: 9,129,138 →

Application: 12/916,342 →

Disk Drive Flushing Write Data in Response to Computed Flush Time

Patent: 8,578,100 →

Application: 12/941,519 →

Disk Drive Detecting Gas Leaking from Head Disk Assembly

Patent: 8,687,307 →

Application: 12/949,680 →

Adaptively Modifying Pre-Read Operations Within a Rotating Media Storage Device

Patent: 8,307,156 →

Application: 12/952,088 →

Disk Drive Generating Map of Margin Rectangles Around Defects

Patent: 8,493,681 →

Application: 12/952,697 →

Hard Drive Testing

Patent: 8,537,480 →

Application: 12/953,095 →

Edge Detection for Disk Drives

Patent: 8,687,312 →

Application: 12/957,152 →

Disk Drive with Partial Sector Management

Patent: 8,661,193 →

Application: 12/960,386 →

Disk Drive Defect Scanning by Writing Consecutive Data Tracks and Skipping Tracks When Reading the Data Tracks

Patent: 8,964,320 →

Application: 12/964,480 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Servo Burst Signals to Compensate for Radial Velocity of the Head

Patent: 8,531,798 →

Application: 12/966,474 →

System and Method for a Data Reliability Scheme in a Solid State Memory

Patent: 8,601,313 →

Application: 12/966,892 →

System and Method for Maintaining a Data Redundancy Scheme in a Solid State Memory in the Event of a Power Loss

Patent: 8,615,681 →

Application: 12/967,206 →

Publication: US 2012/0151253

System and Method for Using Over-Provisioned Data Capacity to Maintain a Data Redundancy Scheme in a Solid State Memory

Patent: 8,601,311 →

Application: 12/967,228 →

Publication: US 2012/0151254

Testing Data Storage Devices Running Different Versions of an Operating System

Patent: 8,499,198 →

Application: 12/967,722 →

Disk Drive to Coalesce Unaligned Writes in Write Operations

Patent: 8,832,366 →

Application: 12/968,587 →

Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having First and Second Swage Bosses with Different Inner Lip Profiles

Patent: 8,233,239 →

Application: 12/969,257 →

Disk Drive Having an Inner Frame with a Side Opening and an Extruded Hermetically Sealed Outer Enclosure

Patent: 8,514,514 →

Application: 12/969,339 →

Disk Drive Spinning Down Disk to a Spin Rate Based on Spin-Up Parameter

Patent: 8,743,502 →

Application: 12/972,091 →

Regulating Power Consumption of Digital Circuitry Using a Multi-Layer Ring Oscillator

Patent: 8,324,974 →

Application: 12/972,121 →

Sequential Write Thread Detection

Patent: 8,458,435 →

Application: 12/973,085 →

Apparatus and Method for Cleaning a Driver Used in Disk Drive Manufacturing

Patent: 8,092,610 →

Application: 12/974,181 →

System and Method for Optimized Management of Operation Data in a Solid-State Memory

Patent: 9,268,646 →

Application: 12/974,234 →

Data Storage Device Executing a Unitary Command Comprising Two Cipher Keys to Access a Sector Spanning Two Encryption Zones

Application: 12/974,379 →

Publication: US 2012/0159042

Apparatus and Method to Align a Manufacturing Device Having an End Effecter and Fixture in a Parallel Manner

Patent: 8,565,511 →

Application: 12/976,079 →

Selectively Enabling a Host Transfer Interrupt

Patent: 8,392,635 →

Application: 12/976,608 →

Publication: US 2012/0166685

Directional Write Retry for Shingled Disk Drive Application

Patent: 8,611,032 →

Application: 12/977,658 →

Publication: US 2012/0162806

Recording Defects on a Hard Drive

Patent: 8,345,367 →

Application: 12/977,722 →

Method and system for progressive power reduction of inactive device while maintaining ready status with host

Patent: 8,417,979 →

Application: 12/978,376 →

Publication: US 2012/0166828

Disk Drive with Dynamic Head Fly Height Back-Off

Patent: 8,619,383 →

Application: 12/978,477 →

Method for Fabricating a Disk Drive Base for a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,667,667 →

Application: 13/005,727 →

Disk Drive Having a Top Cover with an Electrical Connector Latch

Patent: 8,616,900 →

Application: 13/010,491 →

Conductive Metal Ball Bonding with Electrostatic Discharge Detection

Patent: 8,066,171 →

Application: 13/012,392 →

Configurable Powerline Ethernet Adapter and Power Supply

Patent: 8,941,976 →

Application: 13/012,866 →

Disk Drive Biasing Sync Pattern of an Extended Sync Mark

Patent: 8,619,385 →

Application: 13/015,844 →

Method to Align a Flexure Tail Having Bent Alignment Tab Feature to a Flex Cable of a Head Gimbal Assembly

Patent: 8,064,170 →

Application: 13/019,806 →

Concurrently Searching Multiple Devices of a Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,683,113 →

Application: 13/021,456 →

Publication: US 2012/0203953

System and Method for Data Error Recovery in a Solid State Subsystem

Patent: 8,700,950 →

Application: 13/025,980 →

Data Storage Device Initialization Information Accessed by Searching for Pointer Information

Patent: 9,405,668 →

Application: 13/027,432 →

Ensuring Minimum Gate Speed During Startup of Gate Speed Regulator

Patent: 8,390,367 →

Application: 13/027,504 →

Analog-To-Digital Converter Comprising Dual Oscillators for Linearity Compensation

Patent: 8,421,663 →

Application: 13/027,557 →

Gate Speed Regulator Dithering Ring Oscillator to Match Critical Path Circuit

Patent: 8,350,628 →

Application: 13/027,616 →

Disk Drive Generating Off-Track Read Capability for a Plurality of Track Segments

Patent: 8,699,172 →

Application: 13/028,603 →

Microactuator Test Assembly Comprising a Spreader Pin for Engaging a Load Beam of an Actuator Arm

Patent: 8,322,235 →

Application: 13/030,617 →

ENERGY ASSISTED magnetic recording medium capable of suppressing high dc readback noise

Patent: 8,743,666 →

Application: 13/042,840 →

System and Method for Improving a Data Redundancy Scheme in a Solid State Subsystem with Additional Metadata

Patent: 8,700,951 →

Application: 13/044,400 →

Removable Actuator Assemblies for Testing Head Gimbal Assemblies of a Storage Device

Patent: 8,339,747 →

Application: 13/046,566 →

Systems and Methods for Segmenting and Protecting a Storage Subsystem

Patent: 8,127,048 →

Application: 13/052,017 →

Disk Drive Tuning Dual Stage Actuator Servo Loop Gains from Open Loop Response at Target Frequency

Patent: 8,254,222 →

Application: 13/052,353 →

Disk Drive Having a Disk Clamp with Openings Directly Radially Outboard of Fasteners

Patent: 8,305,708 →

Application: 13/053,771 →

Publication: US 2012/0243121

Apparatus and Method to Simulate a Power Trip to a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,713,333 →

Application: 13/070,751 →

Solderless Compression Connector Comprising Constant Width Conducting Elements Housed Substantially Within a Dielectric When Installed

Patent: 8,512,049 →

Application: 13/071,722 →

Disk Drive Booting from Volatile Semiconductor Memory When Exiting Power Save Mode

Patent: 8,601,248 →

Application: 13/073,032 →

Publication: US 2012/0254601

Power-Safe Data Management System

Patent: 9,361,044 →

Application: 13/073,588 →

Publication: US 2012/0254503

Flash Memory Device Comprising Host Interface for Processing a Multi-Command Descriptor Block in Order to Exploit Concurrency

Patent: 8,924,627 →

Application: 13/073,638 →

Publication: US 2012/0254504

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 8,661,507 →

Application: 13/075,128 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Features to Facilitate Bonding

Patent: 8,320,084 →

Application: 13/078,829 →

Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Module Enabling Out of Order Host Command Chunk Media Access

Patent: 8,769,232 →

Application: 13/080,800 →

Publication: US 2012/0260020

Analyzing a Dump File from a Data Storage Device Together with Debug History to Diagnose/Resolve Programming Errors

Patent: 8,949,672 →

Application: 13/089,083 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Rotational Position Optimization (Rpo) Algorithm to Compensate for Repeatable Runout (Rro)

Patent: 8,755,143 →

Application: 13/095,691 →

Publication: US 2012/0275050

Apparatus and Method to Grip a Disk Clamp of a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,683,676 →

Application: 13/097,455 →

Low Aspect Ratio Screw Finder for Receipt of a Screw for Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 8,800,409 →

Application: 13/098,278 →

System and Method for Improved Parity Determination Within a Data Redundancy Scheme in a Solid State Memory

Patent: 8,862,804 →

Application: 13/098,356 →

Publication: US 2012/0278531

Storage System Bus Transfer Optimization

Patent: 8,751,728 →

Application: 13/098,357 →

High Performance Path for Command Processing

Patent: 9,021,178 →

Application: 13/099,316 →

Publication: US 2012/0284460

Disk Drive Having a Stationary Plate Facing a Disk and with a Recirculation Filter Coupled to Grooves in the Stationary Plate

Patent: 8,228,631 →

Application: 13/099,355 →

Booting from a Secondary Storage Device in Order to Accumulate Disk Drive Performance Data

Patent: 9,009,455 →

Application: 13/099,865 →

Publication: US 2012/0284493

Disk Drive Determining Touchdown Threshold

Patent: 9,053,740 →

Application: 13/100,897 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Data Track Density Based on Write Condition When Writing to Contiguous Data Tracks

Patent: 8,599,510 →

Application: 13/101,005 →

Modifying a Disk Drive While Preserving Calibrated Parameters Stored in a Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,407,393 →

Application: 13/103,851 →

Evaluating Dual Stage Actuator Response in a Disk Drive by Adding Sinusoid to Control Signal

Patent: 8,724,254 →

Application: 13/104,835 →

Hybrid Drive Converting Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory to Read Only Based on Life Remaining

Patent: 9,146,875 →

Application: 13/105,785 →

Hybrid Drive Migrating Data from Disk to Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Based on Accumulated Access Time

Patent: 9,058,280 →

Application: 13/105,800 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Gain of Spindle Motor Compensator Based on a Ratio of Spin Speeds

Patent: 8,737,008 →

Application: 13/106,710 →

System and Method for Data Recovery in a Solid State Storage Device

Patent: 8,503,237 →

Application: 13/110,662 →

Disk Drive Centering Demodulation Windows on Spiral Tracks During a Seek Operation

Patent: 8,451,697 →

Application: 13/113,941 →

Disk Drive Centering Sync Frames on Sync Marks of a Spiral Track

Patent: 8,432,629 →

Application: 13/113,955 →

Clean Room Roller Conveyor with Motors Between and Torquing Drive Roller Pairs

Patent: 8,763,790 →

Application: 13/115,828 →

Disk Drive Qualifying Head/Disk Interface Using Jitter Seek Excitation

Patent: 8,483,027 →

Application: 13/115,866 →

Disk Drive Employing System Inversion for Tuning Seek to Settle Servo Loop

Patent: 8,508,881 →

Application: 13/117,036 →

Disk Drive Having a Sheet Metal Clamp with a Stamped Annular Protruding Disk Contact Feature

Patent: 8,488,270 →

Application: 13/118,235 →

Publication: US 2012/0300344

Method of Manufacturing a Double Sided Flex Circuit for a Disk Drive Wherein a First Side Lead Provides an Etching Mask for a Second Side Lead

Patent: 9,060,420 →

Application: 13/118,545 →

Publication: US 2011/0226729

Hybrid Drive Comprising Write Cache Spanning Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory and Disk

Patent: 8,639,872 →

Application: 13/149,703 →

Solid-State Drive with Reduced Power Up Time

Patent: 8,793,429 →

Application: 13/152,645 →

Reducing Acoustic Noise in a Disk Drive When Exiting Idle Mode

Patent: 8,760,796 →

Application: 13/153,282 →

Disk Drive Detecting Track Squeeze When Circular Tracks Are Defined from Non-Circular Servo Tracks

Patent: 8,743,495 →

Application: 13/153,357 →

Mapping Table for Improving Write Operation Efficiency

Patent: 8,924,629 →

Application: 13/155,189 →

Disk Drive to Load a Head to a Load/Unload (Lul) Zone of a Disk

Patent: 8,605,382 →

Application: 13/155,675 →

Hybrid Drive Balancing Execution Times for Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory and Disk

Patent: 8,775,720 →

Application: 13/156,813 →

Hybrid Drive Migrating High Workload Data from Disk to Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 9,268,499 →

Application: 13/157,111 →

Data Storage Device Comprising Dual Mode Independent/Parallel Voltage Regulators

Patent: 8,937,404 →

Application: 13/157,228 →

Systems and Methods for Controlling Damping of Magnetic Media for Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 8,658,292 →

Application: 13/157,676 →

Disk Drive Resetting Fly Height Reference Generated from a Degrading Calibration Track

Patent: 8,773,802 →

Application: 13/157,809 →

Disk Drive Employing Fly Height Calibration Tracks to Account for Magnetic Entropy and Thermal Decay

Patent: 8,879,188 →

Application: 13/158,087 →

Disk Drive Detecting Head/Disk Contact by Evaluating a Subset of Touchdown Metrics During a Servo Sector Interrupt

Patent: 8,885,279 →

Application: 13/158,208 →

Disk Drive Suspension Assembly with Rotary Fine Actuator at Flexure Tongue

Patent: 8,295,012 →

Application: 13/159,598 →

System and Method for Performing Data Retention That Incorporates Environmental Conditions

Patent: 8,719,531 →

Application: 13/159,720 →

Publication: US 2012/0324191

Data Storage Device Using Metadata and Mapping Table to Identify Valid User Data on Non-Volatile Media

Patent: 8,667,248 →

Application: 13/162,035 →

Adaptive Track Follow Control

Patent: 8,896,955 →

Application: 13/162,095 →

Configuring a Data Storage Device with a Configuration Data Record Set in Response to a Configuration Code

Patent: 8,621,115 →

Application: 13/162,506 →

Methods and Systems for Providing Data Security in Data Storage Devices

Patent: 9,530,436 →

Application: 13/162,863 →

System and Method for Enhancing Processing of Memory Access Requests

Patent: 9,021,192 →

Application: 13/162,894 →

Updating Firmware of an Electronic Device by Storing a Version Identifier in a Separate Header

Patent: 8,683,457 →

Application: 13/163,337 →

Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having a Flexible Printed Circuit with Stiffener Bend Axis Normal to the Actuator Pivot Axis

Patent: 8,259,417 →

Application: 13/163,387 →

Methods, Devices and Systems for Screw Feeding by Vacuum and Gravity

Patent: 8,127,643 →

Application: 13/164,259 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Features to Facilitate Bonding

Patent: 8,325,446 →

Application: 13/164,936 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Transverse Flying Leads

Patent: 8,295,014 →

Application: 13/164,959 →

Disk Drive Executing Log Structured Writes to Physical Zones Based on Power Mode

Patent: 8,576,511 →

Application: 13/165,727 →

Disk Drive Modifying Metadata Cached in a Circular Buffer When a Write Operation Is Aborted

Patent: 8,756,361 →

Application: 13/166,695 →

Hybrid Drive Writing Extended Error Correction Code Symbols to Disk for Data Sectors Stored in Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,683,295 →

Application: 13/166,728 →

System and Method for Multistage Processing in a Memory Storage Subsystem

Patent: 9,164,886 →

Application: 13/166,985 →

Inter-Processor Communication

Patent: 8,635,412 →

Application: 13/167,010 →

Background Selection of Voltage Reference Values for Performing Memory Read Operations

Patent: 8,638,602 →

Application: 13/167,032 →

Alternating Wedge Repeatable Runout (Wrro) Pattern

Patent: 8,693,134 →

Application: 13/167,062 →

Disk Drive with Recent Write Streams List for Data Refresh Determination

Patent: 9,268,649 →

Application: 13/167,246 →

Electronic Device Avoiding False Detection of Free Fall Event Based on Detected Operating Modes

Patent: 9,047,907 →

Application: 13/167,532 →

Publication: US 2012/0324980

Disk Drive Mapping Out Data Tracks to Avoid Thermal Asperities

Patent: 8,687,313 →

Application: 13/167,559 →

Publication: US 2012/0327533

Disk Drive to Enable Defect Margining

Patent: 8,711,500 →

Application: 13/168,551 →

Data Storage Device Evaluating a Sata Connector to Detect a Non-Sata Host

Patent: 8,700,850 →

Application: 13/168,903 →

Disk Drive Evaluating Burst Metric

Patent: 8,970,980 →

Application: 13/169,938 →

Disk Drive Correcting High Order Gray Code Using Track Estimator and Decoding Low Order Track Code Separately

Patent: 8,693,123 →

Application: 13/170,000 →

Screw Feeding Apparatus to Deliver a Screw from a Vibrating Rail to a Screw Guide Tube

Patent: 8,789,446 →

Application: 13/171,150 →

Disk Drive Optimizing Spindle Motor Torque by Adjusting Leading Phase Angle During Spin-Up

Patent: 8,610,391 →

Application: 13/172,719 →

Prioritized Access for Media with Heterogeneous Access Rates

Patent: 9,003,101 →

Application: 13/172,737 →

System and Method for Improving Wear-Leveling Performance in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,898,373 →

Application: 13/172,772 →

System and Method for Dynamically Adjusting Garbage Collection Policies in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 9,158,670 →

Application: 13/173,266 →

System and Method for Improving Data Integrity and Power-on Performance in Storage Devices

Patent: 9,075,708 →

Application: 13/173,431 →

Method for File Based Shingled Data Storage Utilizing Multiple Media Types

Patent: 8,756,382 →

Application: 13/173,587 →

Method and Apparatus for Performing Force Unit Access Writes on a Disk

Patent: 8,990,493 →

Application: 13/174,547 →

Opportunistic Defragmentation During Garbage Collection

Patent: 9,189,392 →

Application: 13/174,708 →

Cache Optimization of a Data Storage Device Based on Progress of Boot Commands

Patent: 9,286,079 →

Application: 13/174,760 →

Data Storage Device Evaluating Frequency Range of Supply Voltage to Detect Power Failure

Patent: 8,498,172 →

Application: 13/190,533 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Radial Density Then Adjusting Linear Density to Balance Off-Track Read Capability

Patent: 8,630,052 →

Application: 13/196,297 →

Serial Interface Amplitude Selection for a Disk Drive in an Unknown Interconnect Environment

Patent: 8,145,452 →

Application: 13/196,613 →

Disk Drive Writing a Sync Mark Seam in a Bootstrap Spiral Track

Patent: 8,634,154 →

Application: 13/204,918 →

Disk Drive Performing in-Drive Spiral Track Writing

Patent: 8,634,283 →

Application: 13/205,034 →

Disk Drive Calibrating a Velocity Profile Prior to Writing a Spiral Track

Patent: 8,917,474 →

Application: 13/205,072 →

Disk Drive Decreasing a Settle Delay Based on Speed That a Settle Parameter Adapts

Patent: 8,564,899 →

Application: 13/206,354 →

Publication: US 2013/0038962

Hybrid Drive Copying Disk Cache to Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,782,334 →

Application: 13/207,184 →

Programmable Error Handling

Patent: 8,850,260 →

Application: 13/207,264 →

Hard Disk Drive Top Cover Removal

Patent: 8,863,372 →

Application: 13/207,295 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Bond Pad Shelf Offset from a Tongue

Patent: 8,456,776 →

Application: 13/207,308 →

Disk Drive Writing Spiral Tracks on a Slave Surface Using Repeatable Runout Compensation for a Master Surface

Patent: 8,537,486 →

Application: 13/207,332 →

Publication: US 2013/0038959

Pushpin Assembly

Patent: 8,582,229 →

Application: 13/209,638 →

Disk Drive Choosing Command from Command Queue Based on a Window Defined by a Probability of a Seek Miss

Patent: 8,498,074 →

Application: 13/212,901 →

System and Method for Reducing Contentions in Solid-State Memory Access

Patent: 8,769,190 →

Application: 13/214,132 →

Non-Volatile Storage Subsystem with Energy-Based Performance Throttling

Patent: 8,788,779 →

Application: 13/216,177 →

Disk Drive Configuring Dual Fly Height Actuators During Write Operation

Patent: 8,576,509 →

Application: 13/217,058 →

System and Method for High Performance Command Processing in Solid State Drives

Patent: 8,423,722 →

Application: 13/219,555 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Asymmetry of Magnetoresistive Read Element

Patent: 8,625,225 →

Application: 13/220,507 →

Suspension Assemblies for Minimizing Stress on Slider Solder Joints

Patent: 8,208,224 →

Application: 13/220,508 →

Disk Drive Detecting Touchdown Event by Evaluating Frequency Response of a Touchdown Metric

Patent: 8,699,173 →

Application: 13/224,118 →

System and Method to Align a Boss of a Head Gimbal Assembly to a Boss Hole of an Actuator Arm for Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 8,996,143 →

Application: 13/226,118 →

Publication: US 2013/0057986

Systems and Methods for an Enhanced Controller Architecture in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,700,834 →

Application: 13/226,393 →

Publication: US 2013/0060981

Systems and Methods for Detailed Error Reporting in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,713,357 →

Application: 13/226,418 →

Systems and Methods for Improved Data Management in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,195,530 →

Application: 13/226,437 →

Hybrid Drive Adjusting Spin-Up Profile Based on Cache Status of Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory

Patent: 8,630,056 →

Application: 13/230,638 →

Current Sensor Comprising Differential Amplifier Biased by Leakage Current

Patent: 8,599,512 →

Application: 13/235,209 →

Publication: US 2013/0070365

Scheduling Commands in a Dependent Array of Disk Drives

Patent: 8,595,432 →

Application: 13/237,683 →

Disk Drive Detecting When Head Is on Ramp

Patent: 8,786,976 →

Application: 13/237,727 →

Systems and Methods for Data Throttling During Disk Drive Power Down

Patent: 8,630,054 →

Application: 13/239,176 →

Publication: US 2013/0070363

Disk Drive Calibrating a Laser Write Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 8,897,103 →

Application: 13/246,685 →

Publication: US 2013/0077453

Method and Apparatus for Operating a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,654,619 →

Application: 13/248,903 →

Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Diagnostic Data for a Storage Device

Patent: 8,640,007 →

Application: 13/249,193 →

Condensing a Defect Scan Log for a Disk of a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,154,812 →

Application: 13/253,294 →

Disk Drive Correcting Track Id in Response to an Estimated Radial Location and a Burst Pes

Patent: 8,553,351 →

Application: 13/267,196 →

Method and Apparatus for Servicing Host Commands by a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,909,889 →

Application: 13/270,130 →

Suspension Clamp for Clamping a Disk Drive Suspension to an Actuator Arm

Patent: 8,705,209 →

Application: 13/273,428 →

Publication: US 2013/0094110

Transfer Tool for Clamping a Disk Drive Suspension to an Actuator Arm

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Publication: US 2013/0091698

Head Stack Assembly Method Using Flexure Tail Raised Region

Patent: 8,276,256 →

Application: 13/277,935 →

Method and Apparatus for Determining Storage Capacity Error for a Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,711,665 →

Application: 13/282,274 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Dual Conductive Layers and Features to Facilitate Bonding

Patent: 8,477,459 →

Application: 13/282,897 →

Data Storage Device to Communicate with a Host in a Sata or a Usb Mode

Patent: 9,158,722 →

Application: 13/287,947 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Write Block Size Based on Detected Vibration

Patent: 8,885,283 →

Application: 13/288,125 →

Systems and Methods for Error Injection in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,707,104 →

Application: 13/297,089 →

Disk Drive Upsampling Servo Control Signal

Patent: 8,542,455 →

Application: 13/298,133 →

Publication: US 2013/0120873

Disk Drive Generating Feed-Forward Actuator Compensation Based on a Speaker Driver Signal

Patent: 8,634,158 →

Application: 13/298,170 →

Disk Drive Selecting Disturbance Signal for Feed-Forward Compensation

Patent: 8,737,013 →

Application: 13/298,241 →

Publication: US 2013/0120870

System and Method for Concurrently Executing Data Access Requests

Patent: 8,938,583 →

Application: 13/298,272 →

Bvcm Hold Down Apparatus to Prevent Pivot Bearing Damage at Tvcm Installation in Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 9,269,402 →

Application: 13/298,979 →

Calculation of Head Media Separation (Hms) from Servo Preamble in a Hard Disk Drive

Patent: 8,654,466 →

Application: 13/300,991 →

Disk Drive Data Caching Using a Multi-Tiered Memory

Patent: 8,977,803 →

Application: 13/301,543 →

Publication: US 2013/0132638

Varying Data Redundancy in Storage Systems

Patent: 8,977,804 →

Application: 13/301,567 →

Improved Caching of Data in Data Storage Systems by Managing the Size of Read and Write Cache Based on a Measurement of Cache Reliability

Patent: 9,268,701 →

Application: 13/301,594 →

Disk Limiter for Disk Drive

Patent: 8,553,356 →

Application: 13/301,611 →

Method for Selective Defragmentation in a Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,819,375 →

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Ruggedized Enclosure for Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,994,380 →

Application: 13/308,410 →

Self Retaining Elastomeric Seal

Patent: 9,892,762 →

Application: 13/308,423 →

Data Storage Device Employing Cascaded Voltage Regulators During Power Failure

Patent: 8,767,354 →

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Apparatus and Method for Cleaning a Driver Used in Disk Drive Manufacturing

Patent: 8,312,585 →

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Disk Drive with Reduced-Size Translation Table

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Disk Drive Charging Capacitor Using Motor Supply Voltage During Power Failure

Patent: 9,093,105 →

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Publication: US 2013/0148240

Methods and Apparatus for Minimizing Contamination in Hard Disk Drive Assembly Processes

Patent: 8,650,716 →

Application: 13/324,576 →

Systems and Methods for Providing Adsorptive Surface Coatings on Internal Components of a Storage Drive

Patent: 8,773,812 →

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Disk Drive Margining Read Channel by Biasing Log-Likelihood Ratios of a Nonbinary Iterative Decoder

Patent: 8,339,919 →

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Disk Deflection Damper for Disk Drive

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Publication: US 2013/0155546

Data Storage Device Generating Redundancy for Data Path Protection of a Parity Sector

Patent: 8,671,250 →

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Publication: US 2013/0159644

Automatic and on-Demand Testing of Non-Volatile Storage Devices

Patent: 8,806,283 →

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Disk Drive Evaluating Ratio of Fly Height Setting for First and Second Heads to Verify Operability

Patent: 8,730,612 →

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Memory Defect Management Using Signature Identification

Patent: 8,959,416 →

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Sorted Serpentine Mapping for Storage Drives

Patent: 9,213,493 →

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Systems and Methods for Handling Write Data Access Requests in Data Storage Devices

Patent: 9,348,741 →

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Accelerated Translation Power Recovery

Patent: 8,819,367 →

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Buffer Memory Protection Unit

Patent: 9,305,142 →

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Identifying Defective Slots in a Disk Drive Tester

Patent: 8,717,694 →

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Suspension Tail Design for a Head Gimbal Assembly of a Hard Disk Drive

Patent: 8,665,566 →

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Information Storage Device with a Damping Insert Sheet Between a Housing Bay and a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,705,201 →

Application: 13/331,889 →

Publication: US 2013/0155545

Vacuum Pick-Up End Effecter to Pick and Place a Component in a Manufacturing Process

Patent: 8,662,554 →

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Metadata Recovery in a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,612,706 →

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Storage Device with Replaceable Protection Device

Patent: 8,498,088 →

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High Performance Media Transport Manager Architecture for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,904,091 →

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Disk Drive Adjusting Gain and Offset of Bemf Velocity Sensor During Self Writing of Spiral Tracks

Patent: 8,665,551 →

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Solid State Drive Power Safe Wear-Leveling

Patent: 8,478,930 →

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Loading Different Device Drivers for One Device

Patent: 8,832,327 →

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Systems and Methods for Indication of Activity Status of a Storage Device

Patent: 8,751,699 →

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Solid-State Storage Subsystem Security Solution

Patent: 9,251,381 →

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Storage Subsystem Capable of Adjusting Ecc Settings Based on Monitored Conditions

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Voltage Quadrupler Comprising a Second Charging Capacitor Charged Using a First Charging Capacitor

Patent: 8,717,699 →

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Methods for Testing for Defects on Magnetic Media Storage Disks

Patent: 8,698,492 →

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Measuring Performance of Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,158,461 →

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Data Storage Device Aligning Partition to Boundary of Sector When Partition Offset Correlates with Offset of Write Commands

Patent: 8,996,839 →

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Data Storage Device Shifting Data Chunks of Alignment Zone Relative to Sector Boundaries

Patent: 9,063,838 →

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Hard-Disk Drive Work Load Profiling and Capturing Systems and Methods

Patent: 8,793,532 →

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Disk Drive Having a Base with a Protruding Peripheral Metal Flange That Is Folded Over a Top Cover to Enclose Helium

Patent: 8,451,559 →

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Content Discovery, Aggregation and Presentment Over a Network

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Dual Configuration Enclosure with Optional Shielding

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Methods and Devices for Two-Dimensional Iterative Multi-Track Based Map Detection

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High Performance Caching Architecture for Data Storage Systems

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Methods for Adaptive Throttling of Data Refresh Operations and Disk Drives Implementing the Same

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Network Attached Storage (Nas) Protection Meter and Methods for Alerting Users of the State of Protection of a Nas

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Methods and Devices for Authentication and Data Encryption

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Publication: US 2013/0212401

Fly Height Sensor Control Circuit

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Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having a Flexible Printed Circuit with Heat Transfer Limiting Features

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Systems and Methods for Measuring the Useful Life of Solid-State Storage Devices

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Publication: US 2012/0151130

Methods and Devices for Joint Two-Dimensional Self-Iterating Equalization and Detection

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Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having a Laminar Flexible Printed Circuit with a Conductive Bump Extending to a Second Conductive Layer

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Disk Drive Compensating for Track Squeeze by Writing Non-Circular Servo Tracks

Patent: 8,749,904 →

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Disk Drive Defining Non-Circular Data Tracks Relative to a Rotation Axis of the Disk

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System and Method for Charging Back-Up Charge Storage Element for Data Storage Device Using Spindle Phase Switching Elements

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Methods for Closed-Loop Compensation of Ultra-High Frequency Disturbances in Hard Disk Drives and Hard Disk Drives Utilizing Same

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Methods and Devices for Nas-Level Data Protection Based on Nas Configuration Images

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Drive Bias and Damping for Trayless Disk Drive Enclosures

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Defect Scanning for a Disk Drive

Patent: 8,749,905 →

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Method to Manufacture a Flexible Cable for a Disk Drive

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Systems and Methods for Improved Encoding of Data in Data Storage Devices

Patent: 9,203,434 →

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Method of Manufacturing a Disk Drive Suspension

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Disk Drive Increasing Laser Power at Beginning of Write in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Disk Drive Compensating for Laser Induced Head Protrusion in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Disk Drive Employing Radially Coherent Reference Pattern for Servo Burst Demodulation and Fly Height Measurement

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Virtual Extension of Buffer to Reduce Buffer Overflow During Tracing

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Systems and Methods for Correcting Slider Parallelism Error Using Compensation Lapping

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Publication: US 2013/0244541

Transport Comb for Head Stack Assembly

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Prioritized Memory Scanning for Data Storage Systems

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Disk Drive Component Flow Fixture

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Multi-Interface and Multi-Bus Structured Solid-State Storage Subsystem

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Methods and Devices for Enhanced Adaptive Margining Based on Channel Threshold Measure

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Mechanism to Manage Access to User Data Area with Bridged Direct-Attached Storage Devices

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Fastener Container to Provide Fasteners to a Fastener Feeder

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Publication: US 2013/0248545

Systems and Methods for Providing Inline Parameter Service in Data Storage Devices

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Disk Drive Adjusting Demodulation Window for Spiral Track Using Timing Feed-Forward Compensation

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Systems and Methods for Aligning Components of a Head Stack Assembly of a Hard Disk Drive

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Disk Drive Servo Writing from Spiral Tracks Using Radial Dependent Timing Feed-Forward Compensation

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Disk Drive Estimating Repeatable Runout of Reference Pattern Based on Repeatable Runout of Phase Error

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Disk Drive Tuning Speed Control Loop for a Spindle Motor

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Changing the Performance Level of a Disk Drive

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Pulse Width Modulation Dc Motor Controller

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Shock Mount and Retainer for a Disk Drive Enclosure

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Mram-Based Security for Data Storage Systems

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Redundant Power Backplane for Nas Storage Device

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Dual Wall Input for Network Attached Storage Device

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Disk Drive Increasing Bandwidth of Cutoff Filter While Reading Servo Sector Preamble

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Systems and Methods for Storage Device Read/Write Head Malfunction Detection

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Disk Drive Evaluating Multiple Vibration Sensor Outputs to Enable Write-Protection

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Disk Drive Increasing Integrator Output Range to Complete Seek Operation

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Managing Unreliable Memory in Data Storage Systems

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Publication: US 2013/0290793

Slim Form Factor Disk Drive Comprising Disk Drive Enclosure Having an Insular Raised Region

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Publication: US 2013/0290988

Devices and Methods for System-Level Disk Drive Vibration and Shock Testing

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Digital Rights Managment System, Devices, and Methods for Binding Content to an Intelligent Storage Device

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Publication: US 2013/0266137

Digital Rights Management System and Methods for Accessing Content from an Intelligent Storage

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Publication: US 2013/0268771

Digital Rights Management System and Methods for Provisioning Content to an Intelligent Storage

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Publication: US 2013/0268749

Digital Rights Management System Transfer of Content and Distribution

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Publication: US 2013/0268759

Hard Disk Drive Assembly Including a Nvsm Located Within a Preamplifier to Store Configuration Data for Controlling Disk Drive Operations

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Hard Disk Drive Assembly Including a Nvsm to Store Configuration Data for Controlling Disk Drive Operations

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Method and System for Determining Storage Device Top Cover Compression Effectiveness

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System Data Management Using Garbage Collection and Hybrid Self Mapping

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Storing and Reconstructing Mapping Table Data in a Data Storage System

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Disk Drive Comprising Extended Range Head Proximity Sensor

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Publication: US 2013/0301158

System Data Management Using Garbage Collection and Logs

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Suspension Assembly Including a Flexure Tail with Staggered Rows of Apertures

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Disk Drive with Balance Plug Having Thermally Deformable Portion

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Characterizing Polarities of Piezoelectric (Pzt) Elements of a Two Pzt Element Microactuator

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System Data Storage Mechanism Providing Coherency and Segmented Data Loading

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Flexure Based Compliance Device for Use with an Assembly Device

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Press-Fit Emi Shield and Electronic Devices Including Same

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Disk Drive Increasing Capacity by Adjusting a Servo Gate During Write Operations

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Garbage Collection Based on the Inactivity Level of Stored Data

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Disk Drive Determining Head Touchdown Threshold Based on Curve Fitting Prediction Error

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Disk Spindle Assembly Cartridge

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Methods and Systems for Nas Device Pairing and Mirroring

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Disk Drive Employing Model-Based Feed-Forward Compensation During Seek Settling

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Data Storage Device Tracking Log-Likelihood Ratio for a Decoder Based on Past Performance

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Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Load Beam Aperature Over Conductive Heating Pads That Are Offset from Head Bonding Pads

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Reducing Effects of Wide Area Track Erasure in a Disk Drive

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File Management Among Different Zones of Storage Media

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Universal Test Connector for Connecting a Sata or Usb Data Storage Device to a Data Storage Device Tester

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Methods and Devices for Preventing Media Errors Due to Media Scratches

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Methods and Devices for Preventing Potential Media Errors from Growing Thermal Asperities

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Disk Drive Estimating Reader/Writer Gap Across Servo Zones

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Disk Drive Employing Overlapping Servo Zones to Facilitate Servo Zone Crossing

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Disk Drive Adjusting Servo Timing to Compensate for Transient When Crossing a Servo Zone Boundary

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Disk Drive Adjusting Estimated Servo State to Compensate for Transient When Crossing a Servo Zone Boundary

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Efficient Error Handling Mechanisms in Data Storage Systems

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Mechanisms for Efficient Management of System Data in Data Storage Systems

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Automatic Gravity Vacuum Screw Feeding

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Disk Drive Detecting Head Touchdown by Computing Anti-Correlation in Sensor Signal

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Methods for Correcting for Thermal Drift in Microscopy Images

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Methods for Referencing Related Magnetic Head Microscopy Scans to Reduce Processing Requirements for High Resolution Imaging

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Systems and Methods for Correcting Read/Write Overlay Errors in the Manufacture of Magnetic Transducers for Storage Drives

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System and Method for Preventing Undesirable Substantially Concurrent Switching in Multiple Power Circuits

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Methods and Devices for Efficiently Updating the Push Down List in a Storage Device

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Manually Adjustable Bracket for Use with a Fastener Mechanism

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Disk Drive Mapping Low Frequency Write Addresses to Circular Buffer Write Zone

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Disk Drive Adjusting Fly Height Actuator to Compensate for Laser Induced Head Protrusion in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Disk Drive Calibrating Fly Height During Startup by Reading Spacing Pattern in Servo Sectors

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Servoing on Zoned Concentric Servo Sectors of a First Disk Surface to Write a Spiral Servo Track to a Second Disk Surface

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Disk Drive Employing Feed-Forward Compensation and Phase Shift Compensation During Seek Settling

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Ultra-Thin Hdd Embedded Disk Clamp Design

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Publication: US 2014/0036392

Disk Drive Selecting Target Response Based on Identified Response

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Methods and Devices for Determining Thermally-Induced Expansion of Magnetic Recording Media.

Patent: 8,760,792 →

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Startup Circuit Detecting Stable System Clock

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Disk Drive Measuring a Resonance Mode by Injecting Sinusoids into a Servo Control System

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Methods and Devices for Adaptive Margining

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Disk Drive Multiplexing Read Signal and Fly Height Signal to a Transmission Line

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Solid-State Drive Retention Monitor Using Reference Blocks

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Publication: US 2014/0059405

Method for Test Mounting a Head Stack Assembly Cartridge

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Efficient Retry Mechanism for Solid-State Memory Failures

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Disk Drive Generating Fly Height Measurement from Servo Burst and Adjusting by Position Error Signal

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Disk Drive Implementing a Read Channel Optimization Process

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Systems and Methods for Reducing Condensation Along a Slider Air Bearing Surface in Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Fixture for a Disk Drive Printed Circuit Board

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Disk Drive Backup Protection Using a Signature with an Enhanced File Manager

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Disk Drive Correcting an Error in a Detected Gray Code

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Disk Drive Averaging Phase-Offset Due to Reader/Writer Gap in Order to Recover Extended Servo Data

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Spindle Motor Having an Increased Magnet Diameter Above Head Plane

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Tracking and Relocating Intermittently Defective Disk Sectors to Prevent Indefinite Recycling Thereof

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Assembly with Embedded in-Plane Actuator at Flexure Tongue

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Grease Wear Leveling for a Disk Drive

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Disk Drive Adjusting Microactuator Gain by Injecting a Sinusoid into a Servo Control System

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Method and System for Providing an Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording Disk Drive Using a Pulsed Laser Light

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Disk Drive Logging Failure Analysis Data When Performing an Emergency Unload

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Methods and Systems for Configuring and Updating Session-Based Quality of Service for Multimedia Traffic in a Local Area Network

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Real-Time Analysis of Quality of Service for Multimedia Traffic in a Local Area Network

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Physical-to-Logical Mapping in Solid State Drives

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Disk Drive Servoing on First Disk Surface While Erasing Second Disk Surface

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Variable Size Logical Page Management in a Solid State Drive

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Disk Drive Calibrating Bias Signal for Touchdown Sensor

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Methods, Devices and Systems for Hardware-Based Garbage Collection in Solid State Drives

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Data Storage Device Enclosure Enabling Use of a Common Shock Mount Across Different Products

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Disk Drive Detecting Head Touchdown by Applying Dc+Ac Control Signal to Fly Height Actuator

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Bayonet-Style Disk Clamp

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Adaptive Error Correction Codes for Data Storage Systems

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Publication: US 2014/0115427

Out-Of-Order Data Transfer Mechanisms for Data Storage Systems

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Write Pointer Management for a Disk Drive

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High Speed Trim Command Processing in a Solid State Drive

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Disk to Motor Hub Swage Attachment

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Disk Drive Filtering Disturbance Signal and Error Signal for Adaptive Feed-Forward Compensation

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Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory Storing an Inverse Map for Rebuilding a Translation Table

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Disk Drive Performing Lifetime Logging of Microactuator Sensitivity

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Disk Drive Predicting Spindle Motor Failure by Evaluating Current Draw Relative to Temperature

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Publication: US 2014/0126081

Method for Fine Actuation of a Head During Operation of a Disk Drive

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Method of Imbalance Correction Using a Grooved Disk Clamp

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Data Management for a Storage Device

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Methods for Evacuating Particles from a Hard Drive Component

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Data Storage Device Accessing Garbage Collected Memory Segments

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Methods and Devices for Avoiding Lower Page Corruption in Data Storage Devices

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Publication: US 2014/0133220

Access and Control System for Network-Enabled Devices

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Disk Drive Modifying Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm to Achieve Target Performance for Limited Stroke

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Disk Drive Calibrating Parameter by Injecting Noise Signal and Measuring Off-Track Read Capability

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Analog-To-Digital Converter with Input Voltage Biasing Dc Level of Resonant Oscillator

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Disk Drive Estimating Microactuator Gain by Injecting a Sinusoid into a Closed Loop Servo System

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Dual Frequency Crystal Oscillator

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Assembly with Piezo Element Stress Relief Features

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Leakage Test Method for a Hermetically Sealed Disk Drive Enclosure

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Tester for Measuring a Pitch Static Attitude of a Head Stack Assembly

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Methods for Spatially Resolved Alignment of Independent Spectroscopic Data from Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes

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Disk Drive Adjusting Noise Spectrum to Reduce Resonance Excitation of Shock Detector

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Disk Drive with Actuator Pivot Bearing Having a Surface Coating Inhibiting Lubricant Migration

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System and Method for Lower Page Data Recovery in a Solid State Drive

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Publication: US 2014/0164870

Disk Drive Defining Guard Bands to Support Zone Sequentiality When Butterfly Writing Shingled Data Tracks

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Disk Drive Actuator Pivot Bearing Having an Adsorptive Element Within

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Program Recording Webification

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Disk Drive Adapting Feed-Forward Compensation Using Iterative Learning Control Over Segments of Seek Length

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Disk Drive Writing Radial Offset Spiral Servo Tracks by Reading Spiral Seed Tracks

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Dynamically Assigning Inactive Pages Not Used in Reed-Solomon Code in Non-Volatile Solid-State Storage Array

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Methods and Systems for Provisioning a Bootable Image on to an External Drive

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Application: 13/714,385 →

Publication: US 2014/0173215

Methods and Devices for Replacing and Configuring a Router in a Network

Patent: 9,001,697 →

Application: 13/716,014 →

Publication: US 2014/0169221

Methods and Devices Configured for Ip Address Conflict Detection and Resolution Upon Assignment of Wan Ip Address

Patent: 9,143,929 →

Application: 13/716,026 →

Data Flush from Cache to Disk Based on Track Limit

Patent: 9,141,531 →

Application: 13/716,059 →

Devices and Methods Configured to Control Network Access Time

Patent: 9,935,956 →

Application: 13/717,481 →

Error Correcting Code Encoder Supporting Multiple Code Rates and Throughput Speeds for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,122,625 →

Application: 13/718,289 →

Self-Heating Integrated Circuit

Patent: 9,275,927 →

Application: 13/719,883 →

Log-Likelihood Ratio and Lumped Log-Likelihood Ratio Generation for Data Storage Systems

Application: 13/720,591 →

Publication: US 2014/0169102

Disk Drive Detecting Microactuator Degradation by Evaluating Frequency Component of Servo Signal

Patent: 8,929,022 →

Application: 13/720,832 →

Electronic Enclosure with Top-Facing Venting

Patent: 8,981,218 →

Application: 13/723,079 →

Cloud to Local Router Security

Patent: 9,397,978 →

Application: 13/724,875 →

Spin Torque Oscillator for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording with Optimal Geometries

Patent: 8,908,330 →

Application: 13/725,683 →

Spin Torque Oscillator for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording with Increased Damping

Patent: 9,355,654 →

Application: 13/725,731 →

Backup Energy Storage Module with Selectable Charge Storage Elements for Providing Backup Power to a Load

Patent: 9,143,005 →

Application: 13/725,867 →

Method and System for Monitoring Data Channel to Enable Use of Dynamically Adjustable Ldpc Coding Parameters in a Data Storage System

Patent: 9,214,963 →

Application: 13/725,965 →

Polarity Detection of Piezoelectric Actuator in Disk Drive

Patent: 8,797,664 →

Application: 13/726,007 →

Dynamic Overprovisioning for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,141,532 →

Application: 13/727,150 →

Publication: US 2014/0181369

Priority-Based Garbage Collection for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,430,376 →

Application: 13/727,278 →

Publication: US 2014/0181432

Disk Drive with Balance Plug Having Longitudinal Retainers

Patent: 8,755,148 →

Application: 13/733,750 →

Systems and Methods of Configuring a Mode of Operation in a Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,954,655 →

Application: 13/741,299 →

Publication: US 2014/0201423

Command Portal for Securely Communicating and Executing Non-Standard Storage Subsystem Commands

Patent: 8,745,277 →

Application: 13/742,163 →

Publication: US 2013/0145106

Decoder Supporting Multiple Code Rates and Code Lengths for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,966,339 →

Application: 13/742,243 →

Decoder Having Early Decoding Termination Detection

Patent: 9,619,317 →

Application: 13/742,248 →

Disk Drive Generating Feed-Forward Compensation Value Based on Two Points of a Sinusoidal Control Signal

Patent: 8,982,503 →

Application: 13/746,230 →

Disk Drive Servo Control Using Hybrid Upsample Filter

Patent: 9,099,133 →

Application: 13/752,693 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Failure Threshold Based on Noise Power Effect on Failure Detection Metric

Patent: 9,053,747 →

Application: 13/752,758 →

Initialization of a Storage Device

Patent: 8,972,655 →

Application: 13/754,854 →

Publication: US 2014/0208026

Hda Vacuum Cleaning Machine for Manufacturing of Hdd

Patent: 8,840,730 →

Application: 13/759,425 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Defect Threshold Based on Statistical Quality Metric Measured for Reference Tracks

Patent: 9,202,517 →

Application: 13/762,850 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Laser Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Based on Quality Metric and Track Width

Patent: 8,929,186 →

Application: 13/763,972 →

Systems and Methods for Improving Sequential Data Rate Performance Using Sorted Data Zones for Butterfly Format

Patent: 8,693,133 →

Application: 13/766,470 →

Dynamically Throttling Host Commands to Disk Drives

Patent: 9,274,966 →

Application: 13/772,295 →

Tethered Gimbal on Suspension for Improved Flyability

Patent: 8,792,213 →

Application: 13/772,298 →

Method and Apparatus for Measuring a Pitch Static Attitude of a Head Stack Assembly

Patent: 8,964,179 →

Application: 13/773,422 →

Publication: US 2014/0233032

Device for Faulty Item Rejection

Patent: 9,114,431 →

Application: 13/773,509 →

Disk Drive Head Suspension Assembly Having a Dlc Coating Between Dimple and Tongue

Patent: 8,760,814 →

Application: 13/776,719 →

Row Bar Ring-to-Ring Transfer Using Single-Sided Adhesive Film and Vacuum

Patent: 8,834,661 →

Application: 13/778,870 →

Systems and Methods for Correcting Fabrication Error in Magnetic Recording Heads Using Magnetic Write Width Measurements

Patent: 9,387,568 →

Application: 13/779,693 →

Disk Drive Destabilizing Magnetization of Test Pattern Using Head Laser to Enhance Defect Detection

Patent: 8,773,957 →

Application: 13/780,847 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Touchdown Sensor

Patent: 8,941,941 →

Application: 13/781,052 →

Method and Apparatus for Performing a Defect Process on a Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,236,085 →

Application: 13/781,374 →

Defect Record Search

Patent: 8,817,584 →

Application: 13/781,428 →

Data Management for a Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,720,627 →

Application: 13/784,494 →

Publication: US 2014/0201424

Methods, Devices and Systems for Two Stage Power-on Map Rebuild with Free Space Accounting in a Solid State Drive

Patent: 9,454,474 →

Application: 13/786,352 →

Publication: US 2014/0258588

Disk Drive with Removably Externally Fixed Canister Under a Hermetic Seal

Patent: 8,885,290 →

Application: 13/786,374 →

Data Storage Device Increasing Sequence Detector Clock Frequency When Bottleneck Condition Is Detected

Patent: 9,619,379 →

Application: 13/787,743 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Laser Power and Write Current for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 8,854,929 →

Application: 13/787,760 →

Disk Drive Employing General Noise Whitening Filter to Reduce Length of Data Dependent Noise Whitening Filters

Patent: 8,896,949 →

Application: 13/789,071 →

Disk Drive Estimating Noise in a Read Signal Based on an Identified Response at the Input of an Equalizer

Patent: 8,792,196 →

Application: 13/789,226 →

Data Cache Egress for a Data Storage System

Patent: 9,122,615 →

Application: 13/789,564 →

Balancer Swivel Arm Assembly

Patent: 8,777,934 →

Application: 13/790,317 →

De-Swage Machine for Removal of a Head from a Head Stack Assembly and Method of Using the Same

Patent: 9,180,563 →

Application: 13/791,818 →

Publication: US 2014/0250656

Threaded Disk Clamping Element with Step on Disk Contact Surface

Patent: 8,908,325 →

Application: 13/791,865 →

Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording Disk Drive Using Modulated Laser Light

Patent: 8,891,341 →

Application: 13/794,166 →

Disk Drive Accounting for Fractional Clock Cycle When Measuring Reader/Writer Gap

Patent: 8,749,911 →

Application: 13/794,233 →

Disk Drive Updating Compensation Values for Multiple Servo Sectors Based on Pes Generated for Current Servo Sector

Patent: 8,743,503 →

Application: 13/794,263 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Digital Phase Locked Loop Over Sector Data with Frequency Induced Phase Error Measured Over Preamble

Patent: 8,780,470 →

Application: 13/794,501 →

Disk Drive Measuring Fly Height by Applying a Bias Voltage to an Electrically Insulated Write Component of a Head

Patent: 9,042,208 →

Application: 13/794,771 →

Disk Drive Using Preamble and Postamble to Adjust Asynchronous Signal Samples of Payload

Patent: 8,947,811 →

Application: 13/796,317 →

Slider for magnetic recording system

Patent: 9,093,102 →

Application: 13/797,069 →

Adjustment of Compression Ratios for Data Storage

Patent: 9,641,378 →

Application: 13/797,529 →

Chip on Submount Carrier Fixture

Patent: 9,337,613 →

Application: 13/797,706 →

Method to Stress Relieve a Magnetic Recording Head Transducer Utilizing Ultrasonic Cavitation

Patent: 9,242,340 →

Application: 13/797,746 →

Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Jumper in a Flexible Printed Circuit Overlap Region

Patent: 8,760,812 →

Application: 13/797,893 →

Soft-Decision Input Generation for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 8,924,824 →

Application: 13/797,923 →

Soft-Decision Input Generation for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 10,061,640 →

Application: 13/797,943 →

Disk Drive Initializing Servo Read Channel by Reading Data Preceding Servo Preamble During Access Operation

Patent: 9,047,919 →

Application: 13/797,953 →

Optimizing Data Block Size for Deduplication

Patent: 9,626,373 →

Application: 13/802,167 →

Publication: US 2014/0095439

Caching Data in a High Performance Zone of a Data Storage System

Patent: 9,280,472 →

Application: 13/802,183 →

Devices and Methods Configured for Automated Duplication of Network Shared Folders

Patent: 9,646,023 →

Application: 13/802,281 →

Methods and Systems for Optimized Staggered Disk Drive Spinup

Patent: 9,058,835 →

Application: 13/802,337 →

Publication: US 2014/0268402

Bandwidth Management for Data Services Operating on a Local Network

Patent: 9,363,199 →

Application: 13/802,380 →

Coined Vcm Tab to Limit Cover Deflection Under Pinch Load

Patent: 9,019,657 →

Application: 13/802,486 →

Production Failure Analysis System

Patent: 9,417,628 →

Application: 13/802,557 →

Publication: US 2014/0277673

Disk Drive Calibrating Fly Height Actuator to Enable Laser Biasing During Non-Write Mode

Patent: 8,787,125 →

Application: 13/802,583 →

Hermetically Sealed Disk Drive with Fill Port Valve

Patent: 8,699,179 →

Application: 13/826,244 →

Systems and Methods for Measuring Ambient and Laser Temperature in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 9,074,941 →

Application: 13/827,089 →

Decoding Data Stored in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 8,990,668 →

Application: 13/829,904 →

Publication: US 2014/0281128

Thermal Control of a Storage Device Receiving a Limited Amount of Power

Patent: 9,158,366 →

Application: 13/829,955 →

Storage Device Powered by a Communications Interface

Patent: 9,116,679 →

Application: 13/830,095 →

Publication: US 2014/0281218

Internal Storage Manager for Raid Devices

Patent: 9,417,822 →

Application: 13/837,586 →

Methods and Controllers for Controlling a Data Storage Device and Data Storage Device Comprising the Same

Patent: 9,554,110 →

Application: 13/838,535 →

Disk Drive Comprising a Per-Drive and Per-Head Fly Height Filter

Patent: 9,053,749 →

Application: 13/840,225 →

Disk Drive Measuring Channel Transition Response by Averaging Isolated Transitions in a Read Signal

Patent: 8,908,306 →

Application: 13/840,513 →

Shared Media Crawler Database Method and System

Patent: 9,171,003 →

Application: 13/841,789 →

Publication: US 2014/0280010

Fast Initialization of Storage Device

Patent: 9,122,405 →

Application: 13/842,020 →

System and Method for Error-Minimizing Voltage Threshold Selection

Patent: 9,542,258 →

Application: 13/842,771 →

System and Method for Dynamic Scaling of Ldpc Decoder in a Solid State Drive

Patent: 9,059,742 →

Application: 13/842,956 →

Manufacturing Process for a Disk Drive Aperture Channel

Patent: 9,489,987 →

Application: 13/849,400 →

Semiconductor Die Including a Current Routing Line Having Non-Metallic Slots

Patent: 8,779,574 →

Application: 13/854,898 →

Disk Drive Predicting Off-Track Error Due to Disturbances Occurring Over Different Frequency Ranges

Patent: 8,767,332 →

Application: 13/856,410 →

Disk Drive with a Spherical Balance Plug

Patent: 8,717,706 →

Application: 13/858,175 →

Disk Drive with a Biased Actuator Latch, and Having a First Permanent Magnet That Is Larger Than a Second Permanent Magnet

Patent: 8,760,816 →

Application: 13/860,505 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Phase of Adaptive Feed-Forward Controller When Reconfiguring Servo Loop

Patent: 9,001,454 →

Application: 13/862,320 →

Disk Drive with a Housing Hole Seal Including a Conductive Layer with an Exposed Planar Surface Region

Patent: 8,792,205 →

Application: 13/862,884 →

System and Method for Managing Data Access in Non-Volatile Memory

Patent: 8,825,947 →

Application: 13/863,667 →

Sealing Member for Constraining Balance Weights

Patent: 8,760,800 →

Application: 13/868,615 →

Gesture-Based Network Configuration

Patent: 9,461,882 →

Application: 13/869,820 →

Energy-Assisted Magnetic Recording Device Having Laser Driving Signal and Magnetic Write Signal Sharing Same Electrical Conductor

Patent: 8,929,180 →

Application: 13/870,931 →

Disk Drive Minimizing Initial Seek Distance After Load Operation

Patent: 8,995,081 →

Application: 13/872,029 →

Publication: US 2014/0320999

Disk Drive Read Circuit Comprising an Ac Coupled Sense Amplifier for Amplifying a Read Signal

Patent: 9,159,344 →

Application: 13/890,131 →

Publication: US 2014/0334038

Disk Drive Calibrating Threshold and Gain of Touchdown Sensor

Patent: 8,891,193 →

Application: 13/890,937 →

Power Adapter with Recess

Patent: 9,627,792 →

Application: 13/892,704 →

Atomic Write Command Support in a Solid State Drive

Patent: 9,218,279 →

Application: 13/895,016 →

Publication: US 2014/0281145

Method of Manufacturing a Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with Folded Bond Pads

Patent: 9,214,174 →

Application: 13/897,609 →

Storage Device with a Cover Supporting Portion

Patent: 9,099,153 →

Application: 13/897,655 →

Publication: US 2014/0300989

Head Gimbal Assembly Carrier with Adjustable Protective Bar

Patent: 8,770,463 →

Application: 13/898,262 →

Automatic Peak Current Throttle of Tiered Storage Elements

Patent: 9,280,200 →

Application: 13/898,288 →

Vacuum Nozzle Having Back-Pressure Release Hole

Patent: 9,022,444 →

Application: 13/898,327 →

Disk Drive with Slow Acting Desiccant

Patent: 8,908,319 →

Application: 13/900,085 →

Multiple Stream Compression and Formatting of Data for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,335,950 →

Application: 13/902,485 →

Publication: US 2014/0281302

Compression and Formatting of Data for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,448,738 →

Application: 13/902,504 →

Publication: US 2014/0281146

Storage System Comprising a Communications Port for Charging an Electronic Device

Patent: 9,891,693 →

Application: 13/902,722 →

Roaming Management for Client Devices

Patent: 9,479,990 →

Application: 13/902,748 →

Disk Drive Measuring Spiral Track Error by Measuring a Slope of a Spiral Track Across a Disk Radius

Patent: 9,047,901 →

Application: 13/903,197 →

Scheduled Load of Heads to Reduce Lubricant Migration on Pole Tip and Decrease Time to Ready

Patent: 9,064,542 →

Application: 13/903,464 →

Thermal Management for Solid-State Drive

Patent: 9,123,686 →

Application: 13/904,992 →

Publication: US 2014/0306335

Head Gimbal Assemblies and Methods for Measuring Slider Parameters

Patent: 8,693,144 →

Application: 13/906,205 →

Actuator Prepositioning for Disk Drive

Patent: 8,949,521 →

Application: 13/907,347 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Dynamic Fly Height Write Profile for Fly Height Actuator

Patent: 8,902,718 →

Application: 13/908,265 →

Publication: US 2014/0347965

Disk Drive Applying Feed-Forward Compensation When Writing Consecutive Data Tracks

Patent: 9,026,728 →

Application: 13/911,365 →

Thermal Interface Material Pad and Method of Forming the Same

Patent: 9,338,927 →

Application: 13/913,068 →

Publication: US 2014/0328024

Data Access for Shingled Magnetic Recording Media

Patent: 9,153,287 →

Application: 13/914,463 →

Reading Voltage Calculation in Solid-State Storage Devices

Application: 13/917,518 →

Publication: US 2014/0359202

Disk Drive Head Suspension Assembly with Load Beam Inner Rails Between Piezo Actuator Elements

Patent: 8,780,504 →

Application: 13/917,654 →

Decoder Having Early Decoding Termination Detection

Application: 13/918,400 →

Publication: US 2014/0223255

Hard Disk Drive (Hdd) Mounting System for Shock and Vibration

Patent: 9,099,163 →

Application: 13/918,847 →

Disk Drive Head Suspension Distal Non-Op Shock Limiter with Branched Arms

Patent: 8,976,491 →

Application: 13/918,876 →

Method and Apparatus for Generating and Providing a Shortcut

Application: 13/918,887 →

Publication: US 2014/0337735

Communications Cable for a Storage Device

Patent: 8,954,637 →

Application: 13/918,895 →

Disk Drive Having a Sheet Metal Clamp with a Stamped Annular Protruding Disk Contact Feature

Patent: 9,318,144 →

Application: 13/921,358 →

Data Storage Device Detecting Read-Before-Write Conditions and Returning Configurable Return Data

Patent: 9,164,694 →

Application: 13/922,099 →

Disk Drive Generating Feed-Forward Fly Height Control Based on Temperature Sensitive Fly Height Sensor

Patent: 8,922,939 →

Application: 13/922,417 →

Disk Drive Performing Spiral Scan of Disk Surface to Detect Residual Data

Patent: 8,896,957 →

Application: 13/922,935 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Microactuator Gain Variations

Patent: 9,147,418 →

Application: 13/923,024 →

Disk Drive Iteratively Adapting Correction Value That Compensates for Non-Linearity of Head

Patent: 8,891,194 →

Application: 13/923,078 →

Power Supply with Voltage Output Responsive to Load Demand

Patent: 9,252,671 →

Application: 13/923,290 →

Publication: US 2014/0321167

Storage Device Selectively Utilizing Power from a Host and Power from an Ac Adapter

Patent: 9,372,529 →

Application: 13/923,301 →

Disk Drive Reducing Write Unsafe Threshold When Detecting an Unrecoverable Servo Compensation Value

Patent: 8,913,338 →

Application: 13/924,791 →

Cross-Platform Software Framework for Embedded Systems on Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,110,758 →

Application: 13/925,697 →

Publication: US 2014/0304716

Performance Improvement for Attached Multi-Storage Devices

Patent: 8,943,237 →

Application: 13/925,746 →

Web Services Provided from Software Framework

Application: 13/925,769 →

Publication: US 2014/0280767

Disk Drive Adjusting State Estimator to Compensate for Unreliable Servo Data

Patent: 8,830,617 →

Application: 13/925,798 →

Disk Drive Executing Jerk Seeks to Rotate Pivot Ball Bearings Relative to Races

Patent: 8,780,479 →

Application: 13/925,820 →

Disk Drive Optimizing Filters Based on Sensor Signal and Disturbance Signal for Adaptive Feed-Forward Compensation

Patent: 9,058,827 →

Application: 13/927,096 →

Disk Drive Calibrating Fly Height Actuator and Laser Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 8,922,929 →

Application: 13/927,100 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Closed-Loop Fly Height Target Based on Change in Open-Loop Fly Height Control Signal

Patent: 9,183,864 →

Application: 13/927,109 →

Interferometric Waveguide Usable in Shingled Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording in the Absence of a Near-Field Transducer

Patent: 9,064,528 →

Application: 13/927,996 →

Mapping of Shingled Magnetic Recording Media

Patent: 9,330,715 →

Application: 13/928,156 →

Virtual Nand Capacity Extension in a Hybrid Drive

Patent: 9,208,101 →

Application: 13/928,318 →

Publication: US 2015/0006823

Disk Drive Releasing Variable Amount of Buffered Write Data Based on Sliding Window of Predicted Servo Quality

Patent: 8,922,931 →

Application: 13/928,329 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Repeatable Run Out Selectively Per Zone

Patent: 8,953,271 →

Application: 13/928,845 →

Methods, Devices and Systems for Dispensing Material on an Electronic Device

Patent: 9,349,405 →

Application: 13/931,163 →

Disk Drive Head Suspension with a Single Piezoelectric Element Adhered to Rotary-Actuated and Non-Actuated Portions of a Structural Layer of a Tongue of a Laminated Flexure

Patent: 8,797,691 →

Application: 13/931,588 →

Disk Drive Head Suspension with Dual Piezoelectric Elements Adhered to Rotary-Actuated and Non-Actuated Portions of a Structural Layer of a Tongue of a Laminated Flexure

Patent: 8,982,513 →

Application: 13/931,610 →

Methods and Apparatuses for Streaming Content

Patent: 9,516,080 →

Application: 13/931,821 →

Publication: US 2014/0359154

Systems and Methods for Controlling and Monitoring Multiple Fans in Conjunction with a Single Fan Controller

Patent: 9,083,265 →

Application: 13/931,824 →

Methods and Devices for Booting a Network Attached Storage with Two Logical Units

Patent: 8,984,190 →

Application: 13/931,825 →

Publication: US 2014/0351463

Disk Drive Detecting Crack in Microactuator

Patent: 8,902,538 →

Application: 13/932,705 →

System and method for data recovery in a solid state storage device using optimal reference voltage values of a related storage element

Patent: 8,861,272 →

Application: 13/935,221 →

Systems and Methods of Write Precompensation to Extend Life of a Solid-State Memory

Patent: 9,013,920 →

Application: 13/936,116 →

Publication: US 2014/0301142

Method and System for Attachment of a Heat Sink to a Circuit Board

Patent: 9,411,384 →

Application: 13/943,530 →

Publication: US 2014/0362528

Method and System for Removing Heat from Multiple Controllers on a Circuit Board

Patent: 9,594,410 →

Application: 13/943,556 →

System and Method for Optimizing Garbage Collection in Data Storage

Patent: 8,706,985 →

Application: 13/948,495 →

Fan Plate

Patent: 9,169,845 →

Application: 13/951,387 →

Publication: US 2014/0369002

Method and Apparatus for Cooling Components in an Electronic Device

Patent: 10,120,351 →

Application: 13/957,814 →

Backup Power for Reducing Host Current Transients

Patent: 9,304,560 →

Application: 13/957,898 →

Publication: US 2014/0380067

Dynamic Raid Controller Power Management

Application: 13/959,887 →

Publication: US 2015/0006814

Disk Drive Generating Quality Metric Map for a Data Track While in Different Configurations

Patent: 9,099,159 →

Application: 13/960,088 →

Deceleration of Spindle Motor in Disk Drive

Patent: 8,953,274 →

Application: 13/960,738 →

User Controlled Data Storage Device Power and Performance Settings

Patent: 9,195,293 →

Application: 13/961,799 →

Data Migration Service

Patent: 9,960,979 →

Application: 13/965,066 →

Cloud Storage Brokering Service

Patent: 9,325,791 →

Application: 13/965,085 →

Fast Saving of Data During Power Interruption in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,830,257 →

Application: 13/967,292 →

Data Storage Device Employing Orthogonal Equalization and Sequence Detection to Compensate for Two-Dimensional Intersymbol Interference

Patent: 9,047,205 →

Application: 13/968,323 →

Shock Sensor on an External Surface of a Disk Drive Base Adjacent a Disk Drive Printed Circuit Board

Patent: 8,964,328 →

Application: 13/968,344 →

Method and Apparatus for Aligning an Illumination Unit to a Slider for a Magnetic Recording Device

Patent: 9,315,008 →

Application: 13/969,782 →

Migration of Encrypted Data for Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,274,978 →

Application: 14/010,350 →

Publication: US 2014/0365785

Automatic Raid Mirroring When Adding a Second Boot Drive

Patent: 9,213,611 →

Application: 14/010,458 →

Publication: US 2015/0033067

Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Electrically Connected to a Gold Coating on a Stainless Steel Surface

Patent: 9,099,131 →

Application: 14/012,449 →

Storing Data Based on Writing Frequency in Data Storage Systems

Application: 14/012,958 →

Publication: US 2019/0042405

Portable Content Container Displaying a/V Files in Response to a Command Received from a Consumer Device

Patent: 8,861,941 →

Application: 14/014,025 →

Disk Drive Adjusting Rotation Speed of Disk to Compensate for Blind Area When Measuring Frequency Response of Servo Control System

Patent: 8,792,202 →

Application: 14/014,267 →

Disk Drive Detecting Different Asperities on a Disk Using Different Sensor Bias Settings

Patent: 8,902,533 →

Application: 14/015,748 →

Adaptive Shingle Guard Band

Patent: 8,908,310 →

Application: 14/017,136 →

Re-Enforced Motor Hub Flange

Patent: 8,976,488 →

Application: 14/017,715 →

Oil Lubricating Process for Actuator Pivot Bearings

Patent: 9,366,384 →

Application: 14/018,000 →

Fifo Buffer Clean-Up

Patent: 9,122,424 →

Application: 14/018,715 →

High Performance System Providing Selective Merging of Dataframe Segments in Hardware

Patent: 9,304,709 →

Application: 14/020,653 →

Publication: US 2015/0074358

Power Fail Protection and Recovery Using Low Power States in a Data Storage Device/System

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Application: 14/020,686 →

Publication: US 2015/0029808

Data Storage Assembly for Archive Cold Storage

Patent: 8,947,816 →

Application: 14/023,386 →

Cold Storage for Data Storage Devices

Patent: 9,430,165 →

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Motherboards and Methods for Bios Failover Using a First Bios Chip and a Second Bios Chip

Patent: 9,542,195 →

Application: 14/023,402 →

Disk Drive Actuating First Head Microactuator While Sensing Signal from Second Head Microactuator

Patent: 9,053,724 →

Application: 14/023,776 →

Power Management for Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,141,176 →

Application: 14/024,498 →

Data Retention Monitoring Using Temperature History in Solid State Drives

Patent: 9,165,668 →

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Using Dual Phys to Support Multiple Pcie Link Widths

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Application: 14/026,062 →

Publication: US 2014/0365704

Automatic Start of an Application at Start Up for a Media Player Appliance

Patent: 9,569,229 →

Application: 14/028,295 →

Memory Unit Assignment and Selection for Internal Memory Operations in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,632,926 →

Application: 14/028,377 →

Systems and Methods for Improving Garbage Collection and Wear Leveling Performance in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 10,417,123 →

Application: 14/028,412 →

Data Transmission from Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,949,487 →

Application: 14/030,991 →

Vacuum Pick-Up End Effector with Improved Vacuum Reading for Small Surface

Patent: 9,120,232 →

Application: 14/031,967 →

Disk Drive Decreasing an Adapting Delay Based on Speed That a Settle Parameter Adapts

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Application: 14/032,023 →

Falling State Determination for Data Storage Device

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Publication: US 2015/0032407

Impact Detection for Data Storage Device

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Disk Lubricant Management in Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,817,413 →

Application: 14/034,427 →

Disk Drive Employing a Temperature Dependent Write Offset

Patent: 8,792,200 →

Application: 14/034,514 →

Command Portal for Executing Non-Standard Storage Subsystem Commands

Patent: 9,026,683 →

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Fall Detection Scheme Using Ffs

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Power Management for a Data Storage System

Patent: 9,417,810 →

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Disk Drive Having a Conformal Peripheral Foil Seal Having an Opening Covered by a Central Metal Cap

Patent: 8,854,766 →

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Data Storage Device with Overvoltage Protection

Patent: 9,251,839 →

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Disk Drive Measuring Radial Offset Between Heads by Detecting a Difference Between Ramp Contact

Patent: 9,064,537 →

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Disk Drive Detecting When Head Is on Ramp

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Application: 14/040,996 →

Disk Drive Executing Rotational Position Optimization (Rpo) Algorithm to Facilitate a Read-Modify-Write Operation

Patent: 8,797,669 →

Application: 14/042,463 →

Storage Device Supporting Periodic Writes While in a Low Power Mode for an Electronic Device

Patent: 9,021,150 →

Application: 14/047,955 →

Publication: US 2015/0058499

Integrated Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording Head/Laser Assembly

Patent: 9,070,387 →

Application: 14/051,397 →

Disk Drive Accounting for Sinusoidal Offset Between Heads When Executing a Rotational Position Optimization Algorithm

Patent: 8,824,262 →

Application: 14/051,604 →

Disk Drive Evaluating Laser Performance for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 9,099,144 →

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Disk Drive Employing Digital Accumulators to Limit Velocity and/or Acceleration of Microactuator

Patent: 9,025,273 →

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Negative Pool Management for Deduplication

Patent: 9,348,531 →

Application: 14/053,532 →

Disk Drive Implementing Hysteresis for Primary Shock Detector Based on a More Sensitive Secondary Shock Detector

Patent: 8,947,819 →

Application: 14/054,738 →

Method and System for Atomically Writing Scattered Information in a Solid State Storage Device

Patent: 9,170,938 →

Application: 14/060,547 →

Methods and Systems for Privileged Execution Support for File System Commands on a Storage Device

Patent: 10,073,987 →

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Publication: US 2014/0297688

Detection of User Behavior Using Time Series Modeling

Patent: 9,152,490 →

Application: 14/063,982 →

Publication: US 2014/0298117

Disk Drive Suspension Assembly with Flexure Having Dual Conductive Layers with Staggered Traces

Patent: 8,879,212 →

Application: 14/065,329 →

Scheduling Commands in a Dependent Array of Disk Drives

Patent: 9,128,639 →

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Laminated Suspension Flexure with Open Polyimide Base

Patent: 9,025,283 →

Application: 14/065,574 →

Systems and Methods for Data Throttling During Disk Drive Power Down

Patent: 9,001,449 →

Application: 14/074,592 →

Captivating Shock Mounts for Data Storage Devices Using Retention Clips

Patent: 9,360,900 →

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Latch System

Patent: 9,247,656 →

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Publication: US 2015/0061475

System and Method for Expedited Loading of an Image Onto a Storage Device

Patent: 9,417,863 →

Application: 14/085,608 →

Publication: US 2015/0095904

Data Migration for Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,070,379 →

Application: 14/086,916 →

Publication: US 2015/0062743

System and Method for Performing Data Retention in Solid-State Memory Utilizing Copy Commands and Usage Data

Patent: 9,135,166 →

Application: 14/087,549 →

Reversible Plug

Patent: 10,079,461 →

Application: 14/087,642 →

Automated Active Feedback Slice & View Milling of Magnetic Head Cross-Sections

Patent: 9,293,157 →

Application: 14/088,215 →

Utilizing Destructive Features as Ram Code for a Storage Device

Patent: 9,275,697 →

Application: 14/088,739 →

Publication: US 2015/0100722

Extending High Power Delivery to an Incompatible Device by Emulating a Compatible Device

Patent: 9,698,604 →

Application: 14/088,811 →

Disk Drive Compensating for Inter-Track Interference in Analog Read Signal

Patent: 9,245,578 →

Application: 14/089,912 →

Component Placement Within a Solid State Drive

Patent: 9,740,248 →

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Publication: US 2014/0362516

Adaptive Power Management Control with Performance Feedback

Patent: 9,442,668 →

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Self-Encrypting Data Storage Device Supporting Object-Level Encryption

Patent: 9,665,501 →

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Memory Card Placement Within a Solid State Drive

Patent: 9,583,153 →

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Data Retention Flags in Solid-State Drives

Patent: 9,263,136 →

Application: 14/090,426 →

Early De-Allocation of Write Buffer in an Ssd

Patent: 9,170,939 →

Application: 14/090,596 →

Disk Drive Using Vcm Bemf Feed-Forward Compensation to Write Servo Data to a Disk

Patent: 8,941,939 →

Application: 14/090,732 →

Disk Drive Slider with Sense Amplifier for Coupling to a Preamp Through a Supply/Bias Line and a Read Signal Line

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Application: 14/090,873 →

Publication: US 2015/0146319

Disk Drive Comprising Laser Transmission Line Optimized for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 9,064,525 →

Application: 14/091,098 →

Publication: US 2015/0146506

Shield Designed for Middle Shields in a Multiple Sensor Array

Patent: 9,042,058 →

Application: 14/097,157 →

Virtual Manifestation of a Nas or Other Devices and User Interaction Therewith

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Publication: US 2015/0095776

Rediscovery of Past Data

Patent: 9,503,532 →

Application: 14/099,720 →

Publication: US 2015/0067049

Misprogramming Prevention in Solid-State Memory

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Publication: US 2015/0161001

Customized Head Gimbal Assembly Bonding Skew Angle for Adjusting Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Reader Alignment

Patent: 9,135,935 →

Application: 14/099,849 →

Search of Nas Data Through Association of Errors

Patent: 9,864,781 →

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Disk Drive Using Timing Loop Control Signal for Vibration Compensation in Servo Loop

Patent: 9,142,249 →

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Method and System for Optimized Soft Decoding in a Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,007,854 →

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Method and System for Soft Decoding Through Single Read

Patent: 9,270,296 →

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Method and Apparatus for Configuring an Electronic Device

Patent: 9,584,873 →

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Publication: US 2015/0106846

Disk Drive Compensating for Non-Linearity of a Head Based on a Fly Height of the Head

Patent: 8,970,982 →

Application: 14/100,646 →

Data Storage Device Comprising Multiple Storage Units

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Publication: US 2015/0113197

Programming Scheme for Improved Voltage Distribution in Solid-State Memory

Patent: 9,007,841 →

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Publication: US 2015/0117113

Power Management for Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,917,471 →

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Data Storage Device Startup

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Publication: US 2015/0120995

Data Storage Device Supporting Accelerated Database Operations

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Publication: US 2015/0120770

Disk Drive Determining Frequency Response of Actuator Near Servo Sample Frequency

Patent: 8,970,979 →

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Device for Measuring a Gram Load

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Mechanism to Deliver Fastener Vertically

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Hard Drive Mounting and Shock System

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Publication: US 2015/0062800

Firmware Ram Usage Without Overlays

Patent: 9,436,480 →

Application: 14/135,890 →

Disk Drive Generating a Disk Locked Clock Using Radial Dependent Timing Feed-Forward Compensation

Patent: 8,917,475 →

Application: 14/137,230 →

Disk Drive Measuring Reader/Writer Gap by Measuring Fractional Clock Cycle Over Disk Radius

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Electronic System with Media Preparation Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,093,095 →

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Publication: US 2015/0109701

Location-Aware Behavior for a Data Storage Device

Patent: 9,612,744 →

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Optimized N-Stream Sequential Media Playback Caching Method and System

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Application: 14/146,194 →

Power Control Module for Data Storage Device

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Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Grounded to a Flexure

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Publication: US 2014/0300997

Disk Drive Generating a Disk Locked Clock Using Radial Dependent Timing Feed-Forward Compensation

Patent: 8,934,191 →

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Power Conservation Based on Caching

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Publication: US 2015/0033057

I/O Card Architecture Based on a Common Controller

Patent: 9,582,453 →

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Publication: US 2015/0052275

Disk Drive Compensating for Cycle Slip of Disk Locked Clock When Reading Mini-Wedge

Patent: 9,025,269 →

Application: 14/152,129 →

Disk Drive Detecting Mini Wedge by Evaluating Wedge Id of Servo Sector

Patent: 9,153,263 →

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Faster File Compression Using Sliding Compression Window and Backward Compound Pointers

Patent: 9,405,479 →

Application: 14/154,974 →

Riser Card for Rack-Mounted Network Attached Storage

Patent: 9,277,670 →

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Selective Skipping of Blocks in an Ssd

Patent: 9,286,176 →

Application: 14/156,354 →

Method for Minimizing Contamination in Hard Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 9,418,709 →

Application: 14/156,385 →

Self-Anneal Process for a Near Field Transducer and Chimney in a Hard Disk Drive Assembly

Patent: 8,917,581 →

Application: 14/158,754 →

Managed Peer-to-Peer Applications, Systems and Methods for Distributed Data Access and Storage

Patent: 9,348,864 →

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Power Circuit with Overvoltage Protection

Patent: 9,564,796 →

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Hybrid Drive Changing Power Mode of Disk Channel When Frequency of Write Data Exceeds a Threshold

Patent: 9,117,482 →

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Per Wedge Preheat Dfh to Improve Data Storage Device Performance

Patent: 9,230,585 →

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Apparatus for Manufacturing Piezoelectric Actuators

Patent: 9,379,311 →

Application: 14/172,833 →

Data Storage Device Writing a Multi-Sector Codeword in Segments Over Multiple Disk Revolutions

Patent: 8,908,311 →

Application: 14/173,895 →

Data Storage Device Comprising Sequence Detector Compensating for Inter-Track Interference

Patent: 9,257,146 →

Application: 14/178,155 →

Data Storage Device on-Line Adapting Disturbance Observer Filter

Patent: 9,053,726 →

Application: 14/179,268 →

Detection of Disk Surface Irregularities in Data Storage Devices

Patent: 8,958,167 →

Application: 14/179,355 →

Electronic System with Multi-Cycle Simulation Coverage Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,021,410 →

Application: 14/182,628 →

Data Storage Device Screening Heads by Verifying Defects After Defect Scan

Patent: 9,117,489 →

Application: 14/182,965 →

Interleaved Channels in a Solid-State Drive

Patent: 9,529,710 →

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Manufacturing Data Logging Without a Network

Patent: 9,965,347 →

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Systems and Methods for an Enhanced Controller Architecture in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,021,168 →

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Systems and Methods for Error Injection in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,542,287 →

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Systems and Methods for Detailed Error Reporting in Data Storage Systems

Patent: 9,058,261 →

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Disk Drive Comprising Extended Range Head Proximity Sensor

Patent: 9,053,730 →

Application: 14/185,909 →

Data Management for Data Storage Device with Multiple Types of Non-Volatile Memory Media

Patent: 10,140,067 →

Application: 14/188,088 →

Electronic System with Current Conservation Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,025,270 →

Application: 14/188,381 →

Data Storage Device Detecting Free Fall Condition from Disk Speed Variations

Patent: 9,058,826 →

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Systems and Methods for Improving Sequential Data Rate Performance Using Sorted Data Zones

Patent: 8,902,527 →

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Data Transfer by Data Storage Device Based on Received Uniform Resource Locator Information

Patent: 10,601,895 →

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Hard Disk Drive Assembly Including a Nvsm to Store Configuration Data for Controlling Disk Drive Operations

Patent: 8,937,782 →

Application: 14/197,053 →

Tamper-Evident Seals Having Adhesive-Free Areas to Minimize Rework Time

Patent: 9,159,205 →

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Data Storage Device Balancing and Maximizing Quality Metric When Configuring Arial Density of Each Disk Surface

Patent: 9,082,458 →

Application: 14/203,126 →

Disk Drive Employing Multiple Read Elements to Increase Radial Band for Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording

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Publication: US 2015/0255099

Suspension Clamp for Clamping a Disk Drive Suspension to an Actuator Arm

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Tail with Stiffened Edge Alignment Features

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Publication: US 2015/0162034

System and Method for Data Error Recovery in a Solid State Subsystem

Patent: 9,405,617 →

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System and Method for Improving a Data Redundancy Scheme in a Solid State Subsystem with Additional Metadata

Patent: 9,110,835 →

Application: 14/216,919 →

Storage Device Assembly Fixture

Patent: 9,390,762 →

Application: 14/225,000 →

Information Storage Device with a Damping Insert Sheet Between a Housing Bay and a Disk Drive

Patent: 9,036,295 →

Application: 14/225,376 →

Ultra-Thin Hdd Embedded Disk Clamp Design

Patent: 9,299,384 →

Application: 14/225,418 →

Data Storage Device with Selective Write to a First Storage Media or a Second Storage Media

Patent: 9,036,283 →

Application: 14/227,191 →

Data Storage Device Comprising Equalizer Filter and Inter-Track Interference Filter

Patent: 8,947,812 →

Application: 14/227,896 →

Data Storage Device Characterizing Geometry of Magnetic Transitions

Patent: 9,361,939 →

Application: 14/230,452 →

On-The-Fly Media-Tagging, Media-Uploading and Media Navigating by Tags

Patent: 9,614,894 →

Application: 14/230,753 →

Disk Drive Head Suspension Tail with Bond Pad Edge Alignment Features

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Grease Composition Additive for Pivot Bearing Assemblies

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Publication: US 2015/0170688

Lubricants with High Thermal Stability for Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Application: 14/231,252 →

Non-Binary Ldpc Decoder Using Binary Subgroup Processing

Patent: 9,337,864 →

Application: 14/231,511 →

Non-Binary Low-Density Parity Check (Ldpc) Decoding Using Trellis Maximization

Patent: 9,250,994 →

Application: 14/231,531 →

Content Matching System for a Networked Media Player

Patent: 10,182,308 →

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Publication: US 2015/0264159

Local Area Network Distributed Storage

Patent: 9,626,376 →

Application: 14/244,672 →

Data Storage Device Adjusting Range of Microactuator Digital-to-Analog Converter Based on Operating Temperature

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Backup of Baseline Installation

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Publication: US 2015/0220403

Injection Molding Part with "Zero Draft" Design and Manufacturing Methodologies

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Publication: US 2015/0197053

Vacuum Embedded Bit for Screw Drivers

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Partial Garbage Collection for Fast Error Handling and Optimized Garbage Collection for the Invisible Band

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Application: 14/250,000 →

Double Writing Map Table Entries in a Data Storage System to Guard Against Silent Corruption

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Encryption Key Selection

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Publication: US 2015/0242640

Data Storage Device Calibrating Fly Height Actuator Based on Laser Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Patent: 8,976,633 →

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Disk Drive Selecting Disturbance Signal for Feed-Forward Compensation

Patent: 8,953,278 →

Application: 14/253,797 →

Data Storage Device Estimating Servo Zone to Reduce Size of Track Address

Patent: 8,934,186 →

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Device Optimized Power Management

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Application: 14/256,693 →

Publication: US 2015/0234447

Data Storage Device Adjusting a Power Loss Threshold Based on Samples of Supply Voltage

Patent: 9,047,932 →

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Data Storage Device Reading First Spiral Track While Simultaneously Writing Second Spiral Track

Patent: 8,982,490 →

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Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording Medium Capable of Suppressing High Dc Readback Noise

Patent: 9,001,630 →

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Electronic System with Media Recovery Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,064,504 →

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Reducing Acoustic Noise in a Disk Drive When Exiting Idle Mode

Patent: 8,995,082 →

Application: 14/263,511 →

Disk Drive Measuring Down-Track Spacing of Read Sensors

Patent: 9,257,145 →

Application: 14/264,244 →

Grooved Cylindrical Seal with Increased Radial Clearance for Reduced Cost Disk Drive Spindle

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Lifetime Extension of Non-Volatile Semiconductor Memory for Data Storage Device

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Publication: US 2015/0268872

System and Method for Reducing Contentions in Solid-State Memory Access

Patent: 9,652,379 →

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Data Storage Device Initializing Read Signal Gain to Detect Servo Seed Pattern

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Communication Between a Host and a Secondary Storage Device

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Publication: US 2015/0277805

Data Storage Device Reading Servo Sector While Writing Data Sector

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Method and Apparatus for Restricting Writes to Solid State Memory When an End-of-Life Condition Is Reached

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Publication: US 2015/0268873

Shroud for an Electronic Device

Patent: 9,699,923 →

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Data Storage Device Reducing Seek Power Consumption

Patent: 8,902,539 →

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Communications Cable with Status Indicator for Electronic Devices

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Publication: US 2015/0311650

Disk Drive Suspension Assembly with Flexure Having Dual Conductive Layers with Staggered Traces

Patent: 9,064,513 →

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Negative Voltage Testing Methodology and Tester

Patent: 9,823,294 →

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Distributed Remote Data Storage Access

Patent: 9,886,216 →

Application: 14/280,208 →

Publication: US 2015/0286412

Disk Drive with Self Sealing Screw Attachment of Actuator Pivot

Patent: 9,025,284 →

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Device Pairing Over Different Networks

Patent: 10,091,694 →

Application: 14/287,421 →

Disk Drive Spindle with Fluid Journal Bearing Having Increased Radial Clearance in Axial End Regions

Patent: 9,662,753 →

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Data Storage Device Employing Sliding Mode Control of Spindle Motor

Patent: 9,171,567 →

Application: 14/287,511 →

Data Storage Device Reducing Spindle Motor Voltage Boost During Power Failure

Patent: 8,922,940 →

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Data Storage Device Employing Glitch Compensation for Power Loss Detection

Patent: 9,141,177 →

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Disk Drive Opening Spiral Crossing Window Based on Dc and Ac Spiral Track Error

Patent: 9,053,727 →

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Track Measurement for Data Storage Device

Patent: 8,988,810 →

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Data Storage Device Comprising Dual Read Sensors and Dual Servo Channels to Improve Servo Demodulation

Patent: 9,013,824 →

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Data Management for a Data Storage Device Using a Last Resort Zone

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Publication: US 2015/0269964

Disk Drive Head Suspension with a Dual Dimple and a Flexure Tongue with a Piezoelectric Microactuator

Patent: 8,995,094 →

Application: 14/298,709 →

Data Storage Device Servoing Heads Based on Virtual Servo Tracks

Patent: 8,941,945 →

Application: 14/298,734 →

Data Storage Device Using Branch Metric from Adjacent Track to Compensate for Inter-Track Interference

Patent: 9,025,267 →

Application: 14/299,309 →

Notification Propagation in Virtual Computing Environment

Patent: 9,189,264 →

Application: 14/299,332 →

Hsa Swage Metrology Calibration Using Solid Weight Gauge and Torque Sensor

Patent: 9,157,817 →

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Disk Drive Head Stack Assembly Having a Flexible Printed Circuit with Bond Pads Having Reduced Capacitance

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Vibration Mitigation for a Data Storage Device

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Publication: US 2015/0331637

Data Storage Device Employing One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Channels

Patent: 9,013,821 →

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Data Storage Device Re-Qualifying State Estimator While Decelerating Head

Patent: 8,958,169 →

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Head Gimbal Assembly Carrier with Adjustable Protective Bar

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System and Method for Managing Execution of Internal Commands and Host Commands in a Solid-State Memory

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Device Testing Systems and Methods

Patent: 10,036,783 →

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Method and System to Monitor Magnetic Head Loading and Unloading Stability for a Data Storage System

Patent: 9,401,165 →

Application: 14/303,955 →

Disk Drive Configuring One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Recording Areas Based on Read Element Spacing

Patent: 9,070,406 →

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Circuit Technique to Integrate Voice Coil Motor Support Elements

Patent: 9,350,278 →

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Data Storage Device Writing Tracks on a Disk with Equal Spacing

Patent: 8,953,277 →

Application: 14/305,753 →

Non-Volatile Storage Subsystem with Energy-Based Performance Throttling

Patent: 9,182,916 →

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Electronic System with Data Management Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,075,714 →

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Lifetime Extension of Memory for Data Storage System

Patent: 9,690,696 →

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Electronic System with Actuator Control Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Managing and Accessing Data Storage Systems

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Publication: US 2015/0372962

Electronic System with Vibration Management Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

Patent: 9,013,825 →

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Controller Board Having Expandable Memory

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Solid-State Memory Corruption Mitigation

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Publication: US 2015/0324282

Data Storage Device Detecting Media Defects by Writing Opposite Polarity Test Pattern

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Application: 14/312,431 →

Data Storage Device Erasing Multiple Adjacent Data Tracks to Recover from Inter-Track Interference

Patent: 9,117,463 →

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Magnetic Head Separator Fin Material to Prevent Particulate Contamination on Slider

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Moveable Slider for Use in a Device Assembly Process

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Publication: US 2015/0370238

Space Efficient Enclosures for Different Sized Drives

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Self-Aligning Bracket Assembly

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Application: 14/314,942 →

Data Storage Device Periodically Re-Initializing Spindle Motor Commutation Sequence Based on Timing Data

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Method of Imbalance Correction Using a Grooved Disk Clamp

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Data Management for a Data Storage Device with Zone Relocation

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Publication: US 2016/0005423

Self-Adaptive Voltage Scaling

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Processing Flush Requests by Utilizing Storage System Write Notifications

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Identification of Data Committed to Non-Volatile Memory by Use of Notification Commands

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Tail with Ground Pad Outside of Bonding Region

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Information-Storage Device Including an Oxygen Absorbing Device

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Management of Data Objects in a Data Object Zone

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Data Storage Device Comprising Slew Rate Anti-Windup Compensation for Microactuator

Patent: 9,007,714 →

Application: 14/335,653 →

Data Storage Device Calibrating Fly Height Actuator Based on Read Mode Touchdown Resistance of Touchdown Sensor

Patent: 9,001,453 →

Application: 14/335,724 →

Magnetic Head Separator Connected to a Ramp

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Inventory Management System Using Incremental Capacity Formats

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Publication: US 2015/0278925

Hand Held Storage Device

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Spindle Motor Magnet Diameter Increase Above Head Plane

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Check-Pointing of Metadata

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Data Storage Device Detecting Fly Height Instability of Head During Load Operation Based on Microactuator Response

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Disk Drive with Improved Spin-Up Control

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Temperature Compensation Management in Solid-State Memory

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Data Storage Device Measuring Laser Protrusion Fly Height Profile

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Enabling File Oriented Access on Storage Devices

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Disk Drive Having a Conformal Peripheral Foil Seal Having an Opening Covered by a Central Metal Cap

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Head Suspension Having a Flexure Tail with a Covered Conductive Layer and Structural Layer Bond Pads

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Data Storage Device Compensating for Repeatable Disturbance When Commutating a Spindle Motor

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Data Storage Device Commutating a Spindle Motor Using Closed-Loop Rotation Phase Alignment

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Power Aware Power Safe Write Buffer

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Data Storage Device Calibrating Laser Write Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Adaptive Feedback for Power Distribution Network Impedance Barrier Suppression

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Monitoring Voltage Levels for Data Storage Devices

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Data Storage Device Modifying Write Operation When a Laser Mode Hop Is Detected

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Data Storage Device Compensating for Hysteretic Response of Microactuator

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Disk Clamp and Motor Hub Cleaning with Stamping Adhesive

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Data Storage Device Adjusting Laser Input Power to Compensate for Temperature Variations

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Data Storage Device Dynamically Reducing Coast Velocity During Seek to Reduce Power Consumption

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Portable Content Container Displaying a/V Files in Response to a Command Received from a Consumer Device

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Hard Disk Drive Top Cover Removal

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Methods for Reducing Operational Latency of Data Storage Systems

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Temperature Compensation in Data Storage Device

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Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Withinterlaced High-Power Heated and Low-Power Heated Tracks

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Data Storage Device Employing Adaptive Feed-Forward Control in Timing Loop to Compensate for Vibration

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Data Management for Data Storage Device with Different Track Density Regions

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Method of Optimizing Device Performance by Maintaining Device Within Temperature Limits

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Non-Volatile Caching for Sequence of Data

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Voice Coil Motor Temperature Sensing Circuit to Reduce Catastrophic Failure Due to Voice Coil Motor Coil Shorting to Ground

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Electronic System with Media Scan Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Data Storage Device Adjusting Seek Profile Based on Seek Length When Ending Track Is Near Ramp

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Server with Storage Drive Cooling System

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Virtualized and Automated Software Build System

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Actuator Pivot Assembly Including a Bonding Adhesive Barrier Configured to Reduce Contamination

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Power Architecture for Low Power Modes in Storage Devices

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Data Storage System Garbage Collection Based on at Least One Attribute

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Data Storage Device Saving Absolute Position at Each Servo Wedge for Previous Write Operations

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Electronic System with Data Management Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Communications Device That Logically Connects an Upstream Signal Line to a Downstream Signal Line

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Device-Based Search in Data Storage Device

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Data Storage Device Maximizing Areal Density Based on a Target Quality Metric

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Integration of Downstream Ports in a Multiple Interface Device

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Object Storage Device with Probabilistic Data Structure

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Data Storage Device Attenuating Interference from First Spiral Track When Reading Second Spiral Track

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Wakeup Detector

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Data Storage Device on-Line Adapting Disturbance Observer Filter

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Electronic System with Data Refresh Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Grounded to a Flexure

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Data Storage Device Delaying Seek Operation to Avoid Thermal Asperities

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Nas Off-Loading of Network Traffic for Shared Files

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Adaptive Error Correction Codes for Data Storage Systems

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Digital Rights Management System Transfer of Content and Distribution

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Data Storage Device Demodulating Servo Burst by Computing Slope of Intermediate Integration Points

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Data Storage Device Employing Full Servo Sectors on First Disk Surface and Mini Servo Sectors on Second Disk Surface

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Identification of Data with Predetermined Data Pattern

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Sloping Transition on a Ramp of a Hard Disk Drive

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Electronic System with Servo Management Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Data Storage Device Employing Variable Size Interleave Written Track Segments

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Disk Drive Correcting an Error in a Detected Gray Code

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Data Storage Device Calibrating Fly Height Actuator Based on Laser Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Etching Continuous Periodic Pattern on a Suspension to Adjust Pitch and Roll Static Attitude

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Efficient Error Handling Mechanisms in Data Storage Systems

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Data Storage Device Attenuating Thermal Decay Effect on Fly Height Measurement

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Write-Through Media Caching

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Remote Metadata Extraction and Transcoding of Files to Be Stored on a Network Attached Storage (Nas)

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Publication: US 2016/0179826

Providing Digital Video Assets with Multiple Age Rating Levels

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Data Storage Device Optimizing Spindle Motor Power When Transitioning into a Power Failure Mode

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Precautionary Measures for Data Storage Device Environmental Conditions

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Electronic System with a Method of Motor Spindle Bandwidth Estimation and Calibration Thereof

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Data Storage Device Having Improved Read Failure Tolerance

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Communication Interface Testing

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Allowing Fast Data Zone Switches on Data Storage Devices

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Disaster Recovery on Dissimilar Hardware

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Soft-Decision Input Generation for Data Storage Systems

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Automatic Power Disconnect Device

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Data Storage Device and Method for Integrated Bridge Firmware to Be Retrieved from a Storage System on Chip (Soc)

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Publication: US 2016/0217099

Host Compatibility for Host Managed Storage Media

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Data Storage Device Employing Multiple Jog Profiles for a Butterfly Written Disk Surface

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Electronic System with Declustered Data Protection by Parity Based on Reliability and Method of Operation Thereof

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Data Storage Assembly for Archive Cold Storage

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Rotary Spindle Having a Disk Clamp Bottom Land Facing and in Contact with a Shaft Top Land

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Secure Stream Buffer on Network Attached Storage

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Publication: US 2016/0234178

Disk Drive Filter Including Fluorinated and Non-Fluorinated Nanopourous Organic Framework Materials

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Data Protection for a Data Storage Device

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Data Storage Device with Embedded Software

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Method and Apparatus for a Network Connected Storage System

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Varying Data Redundancy in Storage Systems

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Method to Detect Power Loss Through Data Storage Device Spindle Speed

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Method for Head Stack Assembly Rework

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Methods and Devices for Booting a Network Attached Storage with Two Logical Units

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Flex Cable Interface

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Disk Drive Tolerance Ring with Edge Rounding from Opposite Major Faces

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Power Safe Write Buffer for Data Storage Device

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Data Storage Device and Method Providing Non-Volatile Memory Buffer for Real-Time Primary Non-Volatile Memory Protection

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Tracking Sequential Ranges of Non-Ordered Data

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Data Storage Device Measuring Reader/Writer Offset by Reading Spiral Track and Concentric Servo Sectors

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Disk Drive Adjusting Estimated Servo State to Compensate for Transient When Crossing a Servo Zone Boundary

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Data Storage Device Configuring a Gain of a Servo Control System for Actuating a Head Over a Disk

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Storage Drive Heat Sink Mounting Structure

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Electronic System with Media Maintenance Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Data Storage Device Comprising Two-Dimensional Data Dependent Noise Whitening Filters for Two-Dimensional Recording

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Power Loss Mitigation for Data Storage Device

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Read Failover Method and Apparatus for a Data Storage System

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Data Storage Device Calibrating a Laser Power for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Based on Slope of Quality Metric

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Data Storage Device Measuring Radial Offset Between Read Element and Write Element

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Disk Drive Having a Top Cover Channel Vented to a Central Cavity via a Hole Through a Bottom Land

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Disk Drive Having a Top Cover Channel Vented to a Central Cavity via a Peripheral Clearance Gap

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Methods and Devices for Replacing and Configuring a Router in a Network

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Processing Data Access Requests from Multiple Interfaces for Data Storage Devices

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Data Storage Device Employing a Phase Offset to Generate Power from a Spindle Motor During a Power Failure

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Data Storage Device Controlling Amplitude and Phase of Driving Voltage to Generate Power from a Spindle Motor

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Data Storage Device Filtering Burst Correction Values Before Downsampling the Burst Correction Values

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Disk Drive Actuator Having a Radially Stepped Pivot Bore

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Data Storage Device Writing Multiple Burst Correction Values at the Same Radial Location

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Data Storage Device Comprising Spindle Motor Current Sensing with Supply Voltage Noise Attenuation

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Tail with a Noble Metal Layer Disposed on a Plurality of Structural Backing Islands

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Mechanical Shock Mitigation for Data Storage

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Methods and Systems for Nas Device Pairing and Mirroring

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Data Storage Device Providing Data Maintenance Services

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Symmetric and Continuous Media Stream from Multiple Sources

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Data Deduplication Using Chunk Files

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Syncing with a Local Paired Device to Obtain Data from a Remote Server Using Point-to-Point Communication

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Communication Interface Initialization

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Data Storage Device Updating Laser Power During Non-Write Mode for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Waterfall Method and Apparatus for a Data Storage Device Read System

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Management of Sequentially Written Data

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Manufacturing Method for Assembling Storage Drives

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High Performance Read-Modify-Write System Providing Line-Rate Merging of Dataframe Segments in Hardware

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System and Method for Lower Page Data Recovery in a Solid State Drive

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Data Storage Device Generating an Operating Seek Time Profile as a Function of a Base Seek Time Profile

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Publication: US 2016/0104504

Data Storage Device with Selective Write to a First Storage Media or a Second Storage Media

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Disk Drive Slider with Sense Amplifier for Coupling to a Preamp Through a Supply/Bias Line and a Read Signal Line

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System and Method for Dynamic Scaling of Ldpc Decoder in a Solid State Drive

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Fullness Control for Media-Based Cache Operating in a Steady State

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Angular Positiontracking of Data Accesses to Mitigate Risk of Data Loss

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Disk Drive Measuring Stroke Difference Between Heads by Detecting a Difference Between Ramp Contact

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Hard Disk Drive Support in Usb Enclosure to Improve Vibration Isolation

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Hard Disk Drive Motor Cup Support

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Browsable Data Backup

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Data Storage Device Calibrating Parameter for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

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Bridge Configuration in Computing Devices

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Disk Defect Management for a Data Storage Device

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Swage Key Enabling Simultaneous Transfer of Two Head Gimbal Assemblies Onto Two Corresponding Actuator Pivot Flex Assembly Arms

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Gas-Charging Head with Integral Valves

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Data Storage Device Employing Spindle Motor Driving Profile During Seek to Improve Power Performance

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Configuring Multi-Line Serial Computer Expansion Bus Communication Links Using Bifurcation Settings

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Data Storage Device Docking Station

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Data Management in Raid Environment

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Data Management in Raid Environment

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Single Board Computer Interface

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Identifying Disk Drives and Processing Data Access Requests

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Data Management for Object Based Storage

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Publication: US 2016/0378364

Memory Programming Providing Corruption Protection

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Disk Drive Head Gimbal Assembly Having a Flexure Tail with a Dielectric Layer That Has Regions of Lesser Thickness

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Disaster Recovery - Multiple Restore Options and Automatic Management of Restored Computing Devices

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Adaptive Tacking of Head Gimbal Assembly Long Tail and Hsa Arm Slot

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Storage Drive with Collapsible Support

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Automatic Discovery and Onboarding of Electronic Devices

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Data Storage Device Compensating for Fabrication Tolerances When Measuring Spindle Motor Current

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Write Command Reporting

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Host Configured Multi Serial Interface Device

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Electronic System with Head Management Mechanism and Method of Operation Thereof

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Power Failure Management in Disk Drives

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Storage Device with a Cover Supporting Portion

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Data Storage Device Executing Retry Operation by Buffering Signal Samples at Different Radial Offsets

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Object Storage Monitoring

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Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Electrically Connected to a Gold Coating on a Stainless Steel Surface

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Slider for magnetic recording system

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Ejection Mechanism Assembly for Storage Drive and Storage Drive Having the Ejection Mechanism Assembly

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File Management Among Different Zones of Storage Media

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Read Command Processing for Data Storage System Based on Previous Writes

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Customized Head Gimbal Assembly Bonding Skew Angle for Adjusting Two-Dimensional Magnetic Recording Reader Alignment

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Methods and Systems for a Portable Data Locker

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Publication: US 2016/0065587

Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Base with Feed Through Flexure Design and Accompanying Flexure

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Disk Drive with Improved Spin-Up Control

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Publication: US 2015/0380045

Data Storage Device Employing Differential Write Data Signal and Differential Write Pattern Signal

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Temperature Management in Data Storage Devices

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Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Base with a Helium Sealed Gasket

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Data Storage Device Employing Different Frequency Preambles in Adjacent Data Tracks

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Media Based Cache for Data Storage Device

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Disk Drive Head Suspension Tail with Stiffened Edge Alignment Features

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Weighted Programming Patterns in Solid-State Data Storage Systems

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Data Storage Device Concurrently Controlling and Sensing a Secondary Actuator for Actuating a Head Over a Disk

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Data Storage Device Employing Sliding Mode Control of Spindle Motor

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Method and Devices for Picking and Placing Workpieces into Devices Under Manufacture Using Dual Robots

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Data Retention Management for Data Storage Device

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Data Storage Device and Method for Using Secondary Non-Volatile Memory for Temporary Metadata Storage

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Replicating Data Across Data Storage Devices of a Logical Volume

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Media Region Management Based on Storage Hints for a Data Storage Device

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Magnetic Reversible Power and Data Connector

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De-Swage Machine for Removal of a Head from a Head Stack Assembly and Method of Using the Same

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Division of Data Storage in Single-Storage Device Architecture

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Data Retention Charge Loss and Read Disturb Compensation in Solid-State Data Storage Systems

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Data Storage Device Encoding and Interleaving Codewords to Improve Trellis Sequence Detection

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Suspension Assembly Having a Microactuator Grounded to a Flexure

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Data Retention Charge Loss Sensor

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Method and System for Reducing Undesirable Reflections in a Hamr Write Apparatus

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Optimizing Setup for Wireless Devices

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Disk Drive Having a Stationary Plate Between Disks with Grooves Adjacent Fastener Holes

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Power Control Module Using Protection Circuit for Regulating Backup Voltage to Power Load During Power Fault

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Orientation-Based Data Transfer

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Jumper Assembly

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Head Stack Assembly with a Flexible Printed Circuit Having a Mouth Centered Between Arms

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Tiered Storage Using Storage Class Memory

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Caching Sensing Device Data in Data Storage Device

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Providing Secure Access to Digital Storage Devices

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Data Storage Device Measuring Resonant Frequency of a Shock Sensor by Applying Differential Excitation and Measuring Oscillation

Patent: 9,564,162 →

Application: 14/981,785 →

Data Storage Device Measuring Resonant Frequency of a Shock Sensor by Inserting the Shock Sensor into an Oscillator Circuit

Patent: 9,620,160 →

Application: 14/981,844 →

Extruder for Three-Dimensional Additive Printer

Patent: 10,150,239 →

Application: 14/982,706 →

Publication: US 2017/0182701

Bus-Powered Data Storage Device with Warning Alarm Triggered by Improper Removal of Power from Host Compute Device

Patent: 9,753,673 →

Application: 14/982,860 →

Dual Head Extruder for Three-Dimensional Additive Printer

Patent: 10,150,249 →

Application: 14/983,032 →

Publication: US 2017/0182709

Solving Unstable Universal Asynchronous Receive Transmit (Uart) Communication Between a Power Manager and a Universal Serial Bus (Usb)-Bridge Device

Patent: 9,772,650 →

Application: 14/983,221 →

Publication: US 2017/0185100

Data Storage Device Optimizing Spindle Motor Power When Transitioning into a Power Failure Mode

Patent: 9,761,266 →

Application: 14/987,581 →

Publication: US 2016/0180877

Voice Coil Motor Temperature Sensing Circuit to Reduce Catastrophic Failure Due to Voice Coil Motor Coil Shorting to Ground

Application: 14/993,469 →

Publication: US 2016/0124444

Rotation and Nozzle Opening Control of Extruders in Printing Systems

Application: 14/995,082 →

Publication: US 2017/0173884

Allowing Fast Data Zone Switches on Data Storage Devices

Patent: 9,466,318 →

Application: 15/001,730 →

Publication: US 2016/0189734

Disk Drive Enclosure with Morse Code Pattern Air Vent

Patent: 542,289 →

Application: 29/258,679 →

Disk Drive with Morse Code Patterned Sleeve

Patent: 543,981 →

Application: 29/262,808 →

Packaging Sleeve

Patent: 621,282 →

Application: 29/350,409 →

Electronic Device Enclosure

Patent: 707,667 →

Application: 29/440,387 →

Data Storage Device

Patent: 737,818 →

Application: 29/455,869 →

Faceplate for a Server

Patent: 720,357 →

Application: 29/455,879 →

Faceplate for a Server

Patent: 722,060 →

Application: 29/458,601 →

Media Player

Patent: 727,360 →

Application: 29/467,896 →

Storage Device

Patent: 740,282 →

Application: 29/470,544 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 740,808 →

Application: 29/478,517 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 740,809 →

Application: 29/478,526 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 758,366 →

Application: 29/493,635 →

Display Screen or Portion Thereof with Graphical User Interface

Patent: 777,177 →

Application: 29/504,004 →

Ruggedized enclosure for a data storage device

Patent: 795,874 →

Application: 29/505,661 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 760,223 →

Application: 29/507,571 →

Storage Device

Patent: 760,222 →

Application: 29/507,576 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 777,725 →

Application: 29/507,644 →

Faceplate for a Server

Patent: 754,667 →

Application: 29/514,572 →

Media Player

Patent: 765,140 →

Application: 29/521,107 →

Storage Drive

Patent: 778,280 →

Application: 29/522,307 →

Storage Device

Patent: 777,724 →

Application: 29/531,264 →

Data Storage Device

Patent: 801,966 →

Application: 29/536,660 →

Storage Device

Patent: 780,749 →

Application: 29/538,882 →

Disk Drive Detecting Head/Disk Contact by Evaluating a Subset of Touchdown Metrics During a Servo Sector Interrupt

Application: 61/378,293 →

Data Storage Device Evaluating Frequency Range of Supply Voltage to Detect Power Failure

Application: 61/378,888 →

Disk Drive Choosing Command from Command Queue Based on a Window Defined by a Probability of a Seek Miss

Application: 61/385,912 →

Disk Lubricant Management in Data Storage Device

Application: 61/856,398 →

Large Sector Fir Memory Reconstruct

Application: 62/133,105 →

Data Storage Device Adapter with Integration for Miniature Compute Device

Application: 62/135,626 →

Browsable Data Backup

Application: 62/148,443 →

Disk Defect Management for a Data Storage Device

Application: 62/148,683 →

Bridge Configuration in Computing Devices

Application: 62/150,132 →

Configuring Multi-Line Serial Computer Expansion Bus Communication Links

Application: 62/154,247 →

Swage Key Enabling Simultaneous Transfer of Two Head Gimbal Assemblies Onto Two Corresponding Actuator Pivot Flex Assembly Arms

Application: 62/154,302 →

Gas-Charging Head with Integral Valves

Application: 62/156,113 →

Data Storage Device Calibrating Parameter for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Application: 62/156,136 →

Data Storage Device Employing Spindle Motor Driving Profile During Seek to Improve Power Performance

Application: 62/160,564 →

Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Base with Feed Through Flexure Design and Accompanying Flexure

Application: 62/171,848 →

Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Base with a Helium Sealed Gasket

Application: 62/184,790 →

Rotation and Nozzle Opening Control of Extruders in Printing Systems

Application: 62/271,144 →

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Security Agreement May 17, 2016

From: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT

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Security Agreement May 17, 2016

From: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

To: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT

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Security Agreement May 17, 2016

From: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT

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Release of Security Interest Mar 5, 2018

From: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS COLLATERAL AGENT

To: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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