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Hamid Balamane

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Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12315539 Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with enhanced stability and methods for making the same Sung-Hun Wee, Shawn M. Tanner, Pradeep Damitha Senanayake, Takuya Matsumoto 2025-05-27
12119032 Near-field transducer for heat assisted magnetic recording comprising of thermally stable material layer Takuya Matsumoto 2024-10-15
11651791 Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head with tapered main pole and heat sink material adjacent the pole Takuya Matsumoto, Muhammad Asif Bashir, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Barry Cushing Stipe 2023-05-16
11462243 Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head with tapered main pole and heat sink material adjacent the pole Takuya Matsumoto, Muhammad Asif Bashir, Petrus Antonius VanDerHeijden, Barry Cushing Stripe 2022-10-04
9230572 Noble metal surrounded magnetic lip and heat sink for heat assisted magnetic recording head Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Matteo Staffaroni 2016-01-05
9183856 System and method for integration of magnetic lip and near field transducer in heat assisted magnetic recording write heads Alexander Goncharov, Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Matteo Staffaroni 2015-11-10
9099111 Heat assisted magnetic recording head employing noble metal alloy as diffusion barrier layer Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Matteo Staffaroni, Barry Cushing Stipe 2015-08-04
9099114 Surface diffusion inhibitor for HAMR NFT Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat 2015-08-04
9099112 Near field transducer having notch diffusion barrier Joseph A. Bonetti, Jordan Asher Katine, Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Neil Leslie Robertson, Erhard Schreck +2 more 2015-08-04
9042209 E-antenna near field transducer with thermal shunt to return pole Erhard Schreck, Matteo Staffaroni, Barry Cushing Stipe 2015-05-26
8988827 Surface diffusion inhibitor for HAMR NFT Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat 2015-03-24
8976489 Noble metal surrounded magnetic lip and heat sink for heat assisted magnetic recording head Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Matteo Staffaroni 2015-03-10
8908482 Sacrificial protection layer for preventing ion mill damage to HAMR optical components Thomas William Clinton, Jui-Lung Li, Juraj Topolancik 2014-12-09
8842383 Laser power sensor with dual temperature sensor John Contreras, Samir Y. Garzon, Fu-Ying Huang, Lidu Huang, Barry Cushing Stipe 2014-09-23
8617408 Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor with narrow track width using amorphous carbon as a hard mask and localized CMP Patrick M. Braganca, Jordan Asher Katine, Jui-Lung Li, Yang Li, Kanaiyalal C. Patel +2 more 2013-12-31
8619535 Thermally assisted recording head having recessed waveguide with near field transducer and methods of making same Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Neil Leslie Robertson, Barry Cushing Stipe, Timothy Carl Strand 2013-12-31
8498182 Wrap-around antenna design for improved performance in thermally-assisted magnetic recording Jordan Asher Katine, Neil Leslie Robertson, Matteo Staffaroni, Barry Cushing Stipe 2013-07-30
8486289 System, method and apparatus for fabricating a C-aperture or E-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Jordan Asher Katine, Barry Cushing Stipe 2013-07-16
8339739 Thermally assisted recording head with near field transducer having integral heatsink Jordan Asher Katine, Neil Leslie Robertson, Barry Cushing Stipe 2012-12-25
8335056 CPP sensors with hard bias structures that shunt sense current towards a shield Jeffrey R. Childress, Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Jordan Asher Katine, Neil Smith 2012-12-18
8169881 Thermally assisted recording head having recessed waveguide with near field transducer and methods of making same Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Neil Leslie Robertson, Barry Cushing Stipe, Timothy Carl Strand 2012-05-01
8092704 System, method and apparatus for fabricating a c-aperture or E-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Jordan Asher Katine, Barry Cushing Stipe 2012-01-10
8054586 Write head design and method for reducing adjacent track interference at very narrow track widths Yimin Hsu, Aron Pentek, Yi Zheng 2011-11-08
7765677 Method for manufacturing a magnetic write head using a protective layer to prevent write pole consumption Yvette Chung Nga Winton, Yi Zheng 2010-08-03
7743487 Method to planarize perpendicular write poles using a combination of CMP and reactive ion milling Amanda Baer, Michael Feldbaum, Ming Jiang, Aron Pentek, Neil Leslie Robertson +1 more 2010-06-29