Granted Patent
Utility
US 6,801,376 · App. 09/886,507
Method and apparatus for evaluating a head-disk interface condition for disk drives
Inventor:
Gordon James Smith
Patented Case
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Granted: Oct 5, 2004
Filed: Jun 21, 2001
Inventor
Gordon James Smith
Assignee (at issue)
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
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