Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 92 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6519102 | Method and apparatus for implementing an in-situ digital harmonic computation facility for direct access storage device (DASD) | Gordon James Smith | 2003-02-11 |
| 6424484 | Apparatus with and method of unique disk identification for magnetic hard disk drives | Gordon James Smith | 2002-07-23 |
| 6417982 | System and method for identifying and filtering a head suspension assembly resonance frequency | Gordon James Smith | 2002-07-09 |
| 6415238 | Adaptive compensation for arm electronics amplification circuitry of a disk drive system | Gordon James Smith | 2002-07-02 |
| 6407874 | Method and apparatus for detection slider airbearing resonance using SAT P-list data | Gordon James Smith | 2002-06-18 |
| 6392841 | Method and apparatus for restoring a thermal response of a magnetoresistive read transducer | Gordon James Smith | 2002-05-21 |
| 6384994 | Method for positioning a magnetoresistive head using a thermal response to servo information on the record medium | Gordon James Smith | 2002-05-07 |
| 6385000 | System and method for extending the operating life of a magnetoresistive transducer provided in a disk drive system | Gordon James Smith, Donald R. Tobie | 2002-05-07 |
| 6314377 | Optimal location of drive assemblies within a multiple drive array | Gordon James Smith | 2001-11-06 |
| 6288856 | Real-time head-to-disk clearance measuring method and apparatus | Gordon James Smith | 2001-09-11 |
| 6281676 | Rigid disk surface defect detection and classification | Gordon James Smith | 2001-08-28 |
| 6275345 | System and method for estimating a frequency of slider airbearing resonance | Gordon James Smith | 2001-08-14 |
| 6239936 | Method and apparatus for calibrating a thermal response of a magnetoresistive element | David W. Abraham, Timothy J. Chainer, Karl-Friedrich Etzold, Gordon James Smith | 2001-05-29 |
| 6222697 | Apparatus with the method of unique disk identification for magnetic hard disk drives | Gordon James Smith | 2001-04-24 |
| 6208804 | Multimedia direct access storage device and formatting method | Gordon James Smith, George Willard VanLeeuwen | 2001-03-27 |
| 6154335 | Method and apparatus for positioning a dual element magnetoresistive head | Gordon James Smith | 2000-11-28 |
| 6154858 | In situ method and apparatus for detecting surface defects to identify handling damage in a disk drive | Gordon James Smith | 2000-11-28 |
| 6104562 | Multiple element transducer for magnetic recording | Gordon James Smith | 2000-08-15 |
| 6097559 | System and method for detecting head-to-disk contact in-situ a direct access storage device using a position error signal | Gordon James Smith | 2000-08-01 |
| 6088176 | Method and apparatus for separating magnetic and thermal components from an MR read signal | Gordon James Smith, David W. Abraham, Anthony P. Praino, Mark E. Re, Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe | 2000-07-11 |
| 6084754 | Method and apparatus for positioning a magnetoresistive head using thermal response to servo information on the record medium | Gordon James Smith | 2000-07-04 |
| 6078461 | In situ offset correction for position error signal | Gordon James Smith | 2000-06-20 |
| 6067203 | Disk drive having optimized spindle speed for environment | Gordon James Smith | 2000-05-23 |
| 6049441 | Method and apparatus for real-time filtering of a position error signal for a disk drive servo system | — | 2000-04-11 |
| 6035351 | Storage of user defined type file data in corresponding select physical format | Russell A. Billings, Dana H. Brown, Earl A. Cunningham, Richard Greenberg | 2000-03-07 |