Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 56 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8077432 | Disk stack assembly with spindle motor hub having improved disk-supporting flange | Andrew Hanlon, Lidu Huang, Antony Nguyen, Hamid Salehizadeh | 2011-12-13 |
| 8040639 | Integrated silicon micro-actuator slider | Jia-Yang Juang, Toshiki Hirano, Jifang Tian | 2011-10-18 |
| 8027116 | Method of manufacturing a hard-disk drive using a bulk eraser | Lidu Huang | 2011-09-27 |
| 8014096 | Combined bulk thermal-assister and bulk eraser | Lidu Huang, Jia-Yang Juang, Byron Lengsfield | 2011-09-06 |
| 7976221 | System and method for improving lubrication in a fluid dynamic bearing near the contact region | Jifang Tian | 2011-07-12 |
| 7944640 | Bulk eraser including at least three magnets configured for erasing recorded information | Lidu Huang | 2011-05-17 |
| 7903377 | System, method, and apparatus for an independent flexible cable damper for reducing flexible cable fatigue in a hard disk drive | Jr-Yi Shen, Jifang Tian | 2011-03-08 |
| 7848058 | Voice coil damper | Jifang Tian | 2010-12-07 |
| 7587057 | Vibroacoustic emulator | Eric Baugh | 2009-09-08 |
| 7513030 | Method of assembling an actuator arm system for a hard disk | Akihiko Aoyagi | 2009-04-07 |
| 7480120 | Apparatus and method for damping slider-gimbal coupled vibration of a hard disk drive | Remmelt Pit, Vedantham Raman, Qinghua Zeng | 2009-01-20 |
| 7465098 | Spindle motor having variably grooved radial and thrust bearing with reduced groove angle near bearing entry | Ferdinand Hendriks, Brian H. Thornton | 2008-12-16 |
| 7352537 | Tuned damper for disk drive actuator arm | Miguel Dominguez, Jeffrey Kerner, Hatem Radwan | 2008-04-01 |
| 7352532 | Method and apparatus for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a disk interface reliability for a load/unload drive | Qinghua Zeng | 2008-04-01 |
| 7277258 | Dual-stage actuator disk drive with optimal location of the movable portion of the secondary actuator | Toshiki Hirano, Tetsuo Semba, Matthew T. White | 2007-10-02 |
| 7260885 | System and method for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer | David W. Albrecht, Akihiko Aoyagi, Qinghua Zeng | 2007-08-28 |
| 7215506 | Hard disk drive (HDD) assembly of small form-factor HDD shock-mounted in frame having dimensions of larger form-factor HDD | David W. Albrecht, Akihiko Aoyagi, Tomokazu Ishii, Qinghua Zeng | 2007-05-08 |
| 7196902 | Disk drive coupling apparatus for rigidly coupling a disk drive to a chassis of a computer | David W. Albrecht, Akihiko Aoyagi, Qinghua Zeng | 2007-03-27 |
| 7145746 | Disk drive with adaptive control of periodic disturbances | Toshiki Hirano, Tetsuo Semba | 2006-12-05 |
| 7119980 | System and method for writing secure data to disk | Zvonimir Z. Bandic, Martin Chen, Bruce A. Wilson | 2006-10-10 |
| 6934117 | Technique to compensate for resonances and disturbances on primary actuator through use of a secondary actuator | Matthew T. White | 2005-08-23 |
| 6731454 | Disk drive with a pivot embedded torque generating track follow actuator and method therefor | Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Vijayeshwar D. Khanna, Mitsuro Ohta | 2004-05-04 |
| 6614613 | Phase technique for active damping in a servo-controlled actuator | Naoyuki Kagami, Tetsuo Semba, Eiji Soga, Shingo Tsuda | 2003-09-02 |
| 6583964 | Disk drive with mode canceling actuator | Wayne Isami Imaino, Jiann-Chang Lo, Matthew T. White | 2003-06-24 |
| 6532137 | Head assembly, disk drive apparatus, hard disk drive and method for manufacturing disk drive apparatus | Mutsuro Ohta, Keishi Takahashi, Kohichi Takeuchi | 2003-03-11 |