Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 33 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11942124 | Slider air bearing designs with side blocker for contamination robustness | Yong Hu, Hung Nguyen, Taichi Nakamura | 2024-03-26 |
| 8553363 | Air-bearing surface of head for minimizing contact with disk | — | 2013-10-08 |
| 8174794 | Slider having a lubricant-accumulation barrier including a plurality of lubricant-accumulation-barrier portions | — | 2012-05-08 |
| 8169744 | Slider having a lubricant-accumulation barrier | — | 2012-05-01 |
| 8009389 | Air bearing with low crown sensitivity through side channels | Sanford A. Bolasna, Weidong Huang, Robert N. Payne | 2011-08-30 |
| 7898769 | Three-etch ABS design with a closed front channel | Sanford A. Bolasna, Weidong Huang | 2011-03-01 |
| 7751147 | Air bearing surface with shallow center channel | Weidong Huang | 2010-07-06 |
| 7583473 | Air bearing with both low altitude and speed sensitivities | Sanford A. Bolasna, Weidong Huang, Robert N. Payne | 2009-09-01 |
| 7408741 | Magnetic disk slider having improved inclination margins in a rolling direction | Hiroshi Agari, Kiyoshi Hashimoto, Yoshinori Takeuchi | 2008-08-05 |
| 7029590 | Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same | Pantelis Alexopoulos, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Timothy C. O'Sullivan, Gurinder Singh | 2006-04-18 |
| 6714382 | Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same | Pantelis Alexopoulos, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Timothy C. O'Sullivan, Gurinder Singh | 2004-03-30 |
| 6493185 | Optimized pad design for slider and method for making the same | Ullal V. Nayak, Robert N. Payne | 2002-12-10 |
| 6449126 | Negative pressure air bearing slider | John M. Harker, Laurence S. Samuelson | 2002-09-10 |
| 6424493 | Hard disk drive magnetic head air bearing surface design for preventing particulate contamination thereon | Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Takashi Nakamura, Atsushi Tobari, Tatsushi Aoki | 2002-07-23 |
| 6421205 | Recessed slider trailing edge for reducing stiction | Donald Ray Gillis, Owen Melroy, Vedantham Raman, Richard L. Stover, Mike Suk | 2002-07-16 |
| 6226859 | Method for making an air bearing slider with reduced contamination sensitivity | Paul R. Peck | 2001-05-08 |
| 6069769 | Air bearing slider having rounded corners | Donald Ray Gillis, Mike Suk | 2000-05-30 |
| 6055128 | Dual etch step pad air bearing design with three etch depths | Sanford A. Bolasna | 2000-04-25 |
| 6055130 | Slider with negative pressure air bearing | John M. Harker, Laurence S. Samuelson | 2000-04-25 |
| 6004472 | Dual etch step process for making a three etch depth air bearing slider | Sanford A. Bolasna | 1999-12-21 |
| 5926343 | Air bearing slider with reduced contamination sensitivity and method for making the same | Paul R. Peck | 1999-07-20 |
| 5872686 | Magnetic storage system having an improved slider having rounded corners to minimize disk damage | Donald Ray Gillis, Mike Suk | 1999-02-16 |
| 5798889 | Negative pressure air bearing | John M. Harker, Laurence S. Samuelson | 1998-08-25 |
| 5777825 | Negative pressure step pad air bearing design and method for making the same | — | 1998-07-07 |
| 5650892 | Negative pressure slider with optimized leading pocket for profile control | Laurence S. Samuelson | 1997-07-22 |