BK

Bernhard E. Knigge

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Showing 1–25 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12347465 Differential sense of embedded contact sensor (ECS) and near-field temperature sensor (NTS) utilizing chopping amplifier John Contreras, Joey M. Poss 2025-07-01
12230304 Data storage device with write protection and guaranteed rapid write verification in energy-assisted recording (EAR) Bernd Lamberts, Erhard Schreck, Qing Dai 2025-02-18
12190924 Laser mode hop compensation using multi-sector feedback in heat assisted magnetic recording Joey M. Poss 2025-01-07
12176015 Pole tip recession compensation by dual heater ratio optimization in a hard disk drive Qinghua Zeng, Noureddine Kermiche 2024-12-24
12154606 Data storage device with mapping and mitigation of laser mode hop effects in heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) Phillip S. Haralson, Naoto Ito, Derrick E. Burton 2024-11-26
12140485 Alternating-bias signal resistance detection for resistive temperature detectors in disk drives John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Ronald Chang 2024-11-12
12032434 Machine learning supplemented storage device inspections Abhishek Srivastava, Karthik Venkatesh 2024-07-09
11961542 Continuous dual path resistance detection for resistive temperature detectors in disk drives John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Ronald Chang 2024-04-16
11874182 Alternating-bias signal resistance detection for resistive temperature detectors in disk drives John Contreras, Joey M. Poss, Ronald Chang 2024-01-16
11869546 Adaptive dual heater mode for hard disk drive Qinghua Zeng, Noureddine Kermiche, Kazuhiro Saito 2024-01-09
9786309 Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head over a disk Noureddine Kermiche, Robert E. Eaton, Puneet Bhargava 2017-10-10
9382496 Lubricants with high thermal stability for heat-assisted magnetic recording Mousumi Mani Biswas 2016-07-05
9153268 Lubricants comprising fluorinated graphene nanoribbons for magnetic recording media structure Mousumi Mani Biswas 2015-10-06
9042208 Disk drive measuring fly height by applying a bias voltage to an electrically insulated write component of a head Jian Xu, Lisha Wang, Dennis W. Hogg 2015-05-26
9001453 Data storage device calibrating fly height actuator based on read mode touchdown resistance of touchdown sensor Jian Xu, Robert E. Eaton, Zhen Z. Ye 2015-04-07
8970978 Disk drive detecting head touchdown by applying DC+AC control signal to fly height actuator Stanley H. Shepherd, Noureddine Kermiche 2015-03-03
8922939 Disk drive generating feed-forward fly height control based on temperature sensitive fly height sensor Jian Xu 2014-12-30
8638527 Signaling method and apparatus for write assist of high coercivity media using integrated half coil Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden 2014-01-28
8599653 Systems and methods for reducing condensation along a slider air bearing surface in energy assisted magnetic recording Michael Mallary, Jih-Ping Peng 2013-12-03
8599506 Integrating control of slider bias potential, touch-down detection and fly-height determination in a HDD John Contreras 2013-12-03
8482880 Patterned structure in a storage media Kurt A. Rubin, Gabriel Zeltzer, Elizabeth Dobisz 2013-07-09
8411390 Integrated half coil structure for write assist of high coercivity media Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden 2013-04-02
8320069 Disk drive detecting positive correlation in fly height measurements James P. R. McFadyen 2012-11-27
8300360 Compliant air bearing slider Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Jia-Yang Juang, Robert N. Payne 2012-10-30
8238051 Real time monitoring inconsistent operations in a hard disk drive Peter Michael Baumgart, Robert E. Eaton 2012-08-07