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Neil Leslie Robertson

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Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 84 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8631561 Method for electrically connecting an energy source to a head of a disk drive Christian Rene Bonhote, Linden James Crawforth, Toshiki Hirano, Fu-Ying Huang, Barry Cushing Stipe 2014-01-21
8634162 Perpendicular write head having a stepped flare structure and method of manufacture thereof Christian Rene Bonhote, Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Quang Le, Jui-Lung Li, Jeffrey S. Lille +3 more 2014-01-21
8617408 Method for manufacturing a magnetic read sensor with narrow track width using amorphous carbon as a hard mask and localized CMP Hamid Balamane, Patrick M. Braganca, Jordan Asher Katine, Jui-Lung Li, Yang Li +2 more 2013-12-31
8619535 Thermally assisted recording head having recessed waveguide with near field transducer and methods of making same Hamid Balamane, Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Barry Cushing Stipe, Timothy Carl Strand 2013-12-31
8498182 Wrap-around antenna design for improved performance in thermally-assisted magnetic recording Hamid Balamane, Jordan Asher Katine, Matteo Staffaroni, Barry Cushing Stipe 2013-07-30
8351151 Thermally assisted magnetic write head employing a near field transducer (NFT) having a diffusion barrier layer between the near field transducer and a magnetic lip Jordan Asher Katine, Vijay Prakash Singh Rawat, Barry Cushing Stipe 2013-01-08
8339739 Thermally assisted recording head with near field transducer having integral heatsink Hamid Balamane, Jordan Asher Katine, Barry Cushing Stipe 2012-12-25
8169881 Thermally assisted recording head having recessed waveguide with near field transducer and methods of making same Hamid Balamane, Thomas Dudley Boone, Jr., Barry Cushing Stipe, Timothy Carl Strand 2012-05-01
8161627 Method of making a write head lapping guide about aligned to a non-magnetic layer surrounding a write pole Christian Rene Bonhote, Jeffrey S. Lille, Vladimir Nikitin, Aron Pentek 2012-04-24
8136227 Method for making a magnetic head having a non-GMR shunt Michael Feldbaum, Quang Le, Edward Hin Pong Lee, Charles G. Seegel, III 2012-03-20
8070554 Distributed shunt structure for lapping of current perpendicular plane (CPP) heads Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Huey-Ming Tzeng 2011-12-06
7743487 Method to planarize perpendicular write poles using a combination of CMP and reactive ion milling Amanda Baer, Hamid Balamane, Michael Feldbaum, Ming Jiang, Aron Pentek +1 more 2010-06-29
7603762 Optical lapping guide for use in the manufacture of perpendicular magnetic write heads Amanda Baer, Vladimir Nikitin, Aron Pentek 2009-10-20
7558019 Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with flux-conductor contacting write pole Quang Le, James L. Nix, Neil Smith, Petrus Antonius VanDerHeijden 2009-07-07
7467461 Additive gap process to define trailing and side shield gap for a perpendicular write head Christian Rene Bonhote, Quang Le, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden 2008-12-23
7463459 Self-pinned read sensor design with enhanced lead stabilizing mechanism Meng Ding, Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Kuok San Ho, Ching Hwa Tsang 2008-12-09
7367112 Method of fabricating a head for perpendicular magnetic recording with a self-aligning side shield structure James L. Nix, Mason Williams 2008-05-06
7345853 Device with ESD protection utilizing a shorting material between electrical pads or leads which are shorted then unshorted by severing the shorting material and then recreating the short by reapplying the shorting material Meng Ding, Surya Pattanaik, Chie Ching Poon 2008-03-18
7271982 Perpendicular magnetic recording head built using an air-bearing surface damascene process Scott A. MacDonald, Ian Robson McFadyen 2007-09-18
7262936 Heating device and magnetic recording head for thermally-assisted recording Hendrik F. Hamann, Prakash Kasiraj, Jeffrey S. Lille, Yves Martin, Chie Ching Poon +2 more 2007-08-28
7236334 Repeatable ESD protection utilizing a process for unshorting a first shorting material between electrical pads and reshorting by recreating the short Meng Ding, Surya Pattanaik, Chie Ching Poon 2007-06-26
7212379 Perpendicular magnetic recording head with flare and taper configurations Yimin Hsu, Quang Le, Jui-Lung Li, Ian Robson McFadyen, James L. Nix +1 more 2007-05-01
7206169 Sacrificial anode in a kerf for corrosion protection during slider fabrication Edward Hin Pong Lee, Edward Dinan Thomas 2007-04-17
7001499 Method for electroplating a body-centered cubic nickel-iron alloy thin film with a high saturation flux density Mike Ming Yu Chen, Thomas Edward Dinan, April Hixson-Goldsmith, Murali Ramasubramanian 2006-02-21
6927940 Method for seed layer removal for magnetic heads Richard Hsiao, Patrick Rush Webb 2005-08-09