BK

Bernhard E. Knigge

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58
Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 58 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8174782 Methods for depositing lubricant onto disks and systems thereof Norbert A. Feliss, Donald Ray Gillis 2012-05-08
8169743 Minimizing slider vibration effects on a magnetic transducer Oscar J. Ruiz 2012-05-01
8139309 Negative biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider wear and provide burnish rate control Bruno Marchon 2012-03-20
8098450 Fly-height management in a hard disk drive (HDD) Peter Michael Baumgart, Martin Chen, John Contreras, Sujit Kirpekar 2012-01-17
8085490 Slider fly-height control in a hard disk drive Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Stefan Maat 2011-12-27
8059357 Disk drive adjusting fly height when calibrating head/disk contact James P. R. McFadyen 2011-11-15
8049984 Integrated slider bias control John Contreras, Luiz M. Franca-Neto 2011-11-01
7916420 Disk drive employing comb filter for repeatable fly height compensation James P. R. McFadyen 2011-03-29
7903375 Proximity recording slider with high air bearing damping in and out of contact Robert N. Payne, Oscar J. Ruiz 2011-03-08
7830634 Head-disk contact detection and work function difference determination Martin Chen, John Contreras, Luiz M. Franca-Neto 2010-11-09
7719786 Active fly height control using radio frequency feedback Peter Michael Baumgart, Luiz M. Franca-Neto 2010-05-18
7687405 High resolution patterning of surface energy utilizing high resolution monomolecular resist for fabrication of patterned media masters Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Charles Mathew Mate 2010-03-30
7660068 Method and system for pre-contact detection and active damping of air bearing vibrations in a hard disk drive Peter Michael Baumgart, John Contreras, Luiz M. Franca-Neto, Richard Kroeker, Gurinder Singh 2010-02-09
7605996 Method and system for detecting a change in a rotational velocity of a magnetic disk or a spindle coupled to the magnetic disk Peter Michael Baumgart, Charles R. Davis, Gary Herbst, Charles Mathew Mate, Bruce A. Wilson 2009-10-20
7586711 Magnetic performance of a magnetic transducer operating within a hard disk drive Ullal V. Nayak 2009-09-08
7580759 Systems and methods for in-situ recording head burnishing Bruno Marchon, Charles Mathew Mate, Kurt A. Rubin 2009-08-25
7542228 Frictional heat assisted recording Jia-Yang Juang, Erhard Schreck 2009-06-02
7508618 Multivariate head-to-disk contact detection Gary Herbst, Michael Moser, Bruce A. Wilson 2009-03-24
7489466 Enabling intermittent contact recording on-demand Steven N. Guilliams, Andreas Moser 2009-02-10
7450333 Electrostatic fly-height control Toshiki Hirano 2008-11-11
7416991 High resolution patterning of surface energy utilizing high resolution monomolecular resist for fabrication of patterned media masters Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Charles Mathew Mate 2008-08-26
7359138 Method of feedback control for active damping of slider air bearing vibrations in a hard disk drive slider Thomas R. Albrecht, Peter Michael Baumgart 2008-04-15
7321476 Method and system for determining contact potential in a hard disk drive Peter Michael Baumgart, Charles Mathew Mate 2008-01-22
7310197 Simultaneous measurement of contact potential and slider body clearance in a magnetic disk drive Peter Michael Baumgart, Malk Duwensee 2007-12-18
7310198 Measurement of slider body clearance in a magnetic disk drive using positive and negative electrical pulses Peter Michael Baumgart, Maik Duwensee 2007-12-18