Issued Patents All Time
Showing 51–75 of 80 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6900957 | Lubricant depletion detection in a self-healing disk drive | Gordon James Smith | 2005-05-31 |
| 6831802 | Methods and apparatus for thermally bonding lubricant to a disk surface by the repetitive writing of data | Andrei Khurshudov | 2004-12-14 |
| 6822819 | Methods and apparatus for thermally bonding lubricant to a disk surface with use of a heating element formed in a magnetic head | Andrei Khurshudov | 2004-11-23 |
| 6778360 | Electrostatic discharge device in a disk drive providing a conductive path between a slider and the disk drive housing thereby protecting against electrostatic discharge | Mike Suk | 2004-08-17 |
| 6700726 | Method for controlling air pressure in an evacuated disk drive | Bernd Lamberts, Kris Schouterden | 2004-03-02 |
| 6683743 | Method for controlling the velocity of an actuator arm in a hard disk drive | Mike Suk, Kris Schouterden | 2004-01-27 |
| 6680811 | System and method for enhancing load/unload performance of low-flying heads in a disk drive | Mike Suk | 2004-01-20 |
| 6678113 | Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive | Norbert A. Feliss, Sylvia Lee, Karl A. Flechsig, Thomas A. Gregory | 2004-01-13 |
| 6618221 | System and method for utilizing an actuator-activated pumping mechanism for reducing the operating pressure of a disk drive assembly | Kris Schouterden | 2003-09-09 |
| 6603628 | In-situ pressure sensor based on read head resistance | Bernd Lamberts, Kris Schouterden | 2003-08-05 |
| 6580585 | Magnetic disk drive with load/unload structure having lubricant reservoir | Norbert A. Feliss, Thomas A. Gregory, Sylvia Lee, Vedantham Raman | 2003-06-17 |
| 6560074 | Offset limiter for reducing potential of disk damage during unload sequence in load/unload disk drive | Mike Suk | 2003-05-06 |
| 6549378 | Magnetic disk drive with offset load/unload tab | Mike Suk | 2003-04-15 |
| 6501624 | Multiple zone data storage system and method | David H. Jen, Mike Suk | 2002-12-31 |
| 6459550 | Active damping control for a disk drive | Mike Suk | 2002-10-01 |
| 6421205 | Recessed slider trailing edge for reducing stiction | Lee K. Dorius, Owen Melroy, Vedantham Raman, Richard L. Stover, Mike Suk | 2002-07-16 |
| 6407880 | Environmental corrosion protection for hard disk drive elements by thermal activation | Kris Schouterden, Ullal V. Nayak, Reinhard F. Wolter | 2002-06-18 |
| 6359433 | Method and apparatus for preventing data loss in disk drives using predictive failure analysis of magnetoresistive head resistance | Reinhard F. Wolter, Kris Schouterden | 2002-03-19 |
| 6301073 | Device for preventing mechanical shock-induced damage between actuator and disk in computer hard disk drive | Mike Suk | 2001-10-09 |
| 6266199 | Method of apparatus to characterize and limit the effect of disk damage in a hard disk drive | Richard Kroeker, Mike Suk, Reinhard F. Wolter | 2001-07-24 |
| 6265846 | Active bypass circuit for extending energy capacity and operational life of a multi-cell battery | Karl A. Flechsig | 2001-07-24 |
| 6246534 | Hard disk drive with lube on demand actuators | Mike Suk | 2001-06-12 |
| 6084753 | Method and apparatus for removing debris from a slider in a disk drive using load/unload technology | Mike Suk | 2000-07-04 |
| 6069769 | Air bearing slider having rounded corners | Lee K. Dorius, Mike Suk | 2000-05-30 |
| 5959801 | Stiction reduction in disk drives using heating | Mike Suk, Bond-Yen Ting | 1999-09-28 |