Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 84 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |