Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 29 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12283292 | Hard disk drive idle sweep for thermal asperity avoidance | Shuntaro Takeuchi, Masaki Otsuka | 2025-04-22 |
| 9484048 | Magnetic head with a heating element between the read and write element and method of manufacturing thereof | Shinji Sasaki, Takateru Seki, Masayuki Kurita | 2016-11-01 |
| 9159348 | Systems and methods for clearance monitoring in storage media | Jianhua Li, Junguo Xu, Takehiro Sato | 2015-10-13 |
| 8873191 | Fly-height control and touchdown detection | Jianhua Li, Kenichi Kuramoto, Yuichi Aoki, Masaru Furukawa, Yuichiro Sano | 2014-10-28 |
| 8773801 | Magnetic-recording head with first thermal fly-height control element and embedded contact sensor element configurable as second thermal fly-height control element | Masayuki Kurita, Kenji Kuroki, Yuki Shimizu | 2014-07-08 |
| 8767338 | Magnetic head slider and magnetic disk drive | Masayuki Kurita, Hidekazu Kohira | 2014-07-01 |
| 8711508 | Contact detection between a disk and magnetic head | Masayuki Kurita, Yuki Shimizu | 2014-04-29 |
| 8593749 | Hard-disk drive including fly-height-adjustment heating element and position-adjustment heating element and method of controlling fly height | Takenori Atsumi, Irizo Naniwa, Masayuki Kurita | 2013-11-26 |
| 8477455 | Noise and particle shield for contact sensor in a slider | Masaru Furukawa, Yuki Shimizu, Junguo Xu, Yohji Maruyama, Takayoshi Ohtsu | 2013-07-02 |
| 8254061 | Head-slider with protrusion control structure and manufacturing method of the head-slider with protrusion control structure | Kenji Kuroki, Masafumi Mochizuki | 2012-08-28 |
| 8218405 | Head slider and disk drive | Masayuki Kurita, Irizo Naniwa | 2012-07-10 |
| 8125727 | Disk drive and method for adjusting common-mode voltage of an element on a head-slider | Kazushi Tsuwako, Yuusuke Matsuda, Masashi Murai | 2012-02-28 |
| 8125728 | Disk drive, head-slider and method for controlling clearance of a read element and a write element in the disk drive | Masayuki Kurita, Hidekazu Kohira, Kenji Kuroki | 2012-02-28 |
| 8102625 | Magnetic head slider | Kouji Miyake | 2012-01-24 |
| 7911738 | Magnetic head slider with resistive heating film meandering in stacking direction | Masayuki Kurita, Masanori Tanabe, Takayoshi Ohtsu | 2011-03-22 |
| 7777990 | Magnetic disk unit and magnetic head slider | Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama | 2010-08-17 |
| 7729088 | Magnetic disk apparatus with heating device and magnetic head slider used therefor | Masayuki Kurita, Hidekazu Kohira, Mikio Tokuyama | 2010-06-01 |
| 7649714 | High reliability heater for flying height control | Atsushi Kato, Masayuki Kurita, Koji Miyake, Hideaki Tanaka | 2010-01-19 |
| 7619857 | Silicon-made magnetic head slider and method of producing the same | Masayuki Kurita, Kimitoshi Etoh, Takanori Yamazaki | 2009-11-17 |
| 7558022 | Magnetic disk apparatus with heating device and magnetic head slider used therefor | Masayuki Kurita, Hidekazu Kohira, Mikio Tokuyama | 2009-07-07 |
| 7468861 | Magnetic disk apparatus with shield for magnetic head | Takehiko Eguchi, Toshihiko Shimizu, Mikio Tokuyama | 2008-12-23 |
| 7362544 | Thin film magnetic head slider, magnetic head support mechanism, magnetic disk drive, and method of manufacturing magnetic head | Masayuki Kurita, Mikio Tokuyama, Hidekazu Kohira, Masahiko Soga | 2008-04-22 |
| 7278902 | Enabling location specific burnishing of a disk | Masayuki Kurita, Remmelt Pit, Shozo Saegusa, Mike Suk, Hideaki Tanaka | 2007-10-09 |
| 7184619 | Beam direction module and optical switch using the same | Atsushi Kazama, Kazuyuki Fukuda, Masaya Horino, Yasuhiro Itou | 2007-02-27 |
| 7164555 | Magnetic head with heater of thermal flying height control | Atsushi Kato, Masahiko Soga | 2007-01-16 |