Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 58 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |