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Oscar J. Ruiz

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Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12406689 Notched head design for tape applications Kenji Kuroki, Eduardo Torres Mireles 2025-09-02
12033674 Reduction of high tape contact pressure points against head assembly Kenji Kuroki, Eduardo Torres Mireles 2024-07-09
11990164 Tape head assembly with single beam, actuator and spring adaptor Kenji Kuroki, Eduardo Torres Mireles, Robert G. Biskeborn, Masahito Kobayashi 2024-05-21
11881230 Heat treatment of NFT and surrounding material Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck 2024-01-23
11682419 Magnetic head with assisted magnetic recording Kenji Kuroki, Cherngye Hwang, Eduardo Torres Mireles 2023-06-20
11676626 Tape head having joined modules Robert G. Biskeborn 2023-06-13
11615807 Flat profile tape recording head having beveled non-functional portions Robert G. Biskeborn, Kenji Kuroki, Michael T. Babin, SR., Eduardo Torres 2023-03-28
11532320 Tape drive configured to enable magnetic media to fly above an upstream or a downstream head assembly Robert G. Biskeborn 2022-12-20
11495254 Media non-contacting magnetic recording head Kenji Kuroki 2022-11-08
11430480 Data storage device rewinding tape so as to reduce tape distortion Kenji Kuroki, Masahito Kobayashi 2022-08-30
11189307 Base apparatus and methods for head assemblies of magnetic storage devices Eduardo Torres, Kenji Kuroki 2021-11-30
11170814 Heat treatment of NFT on heat-assisted magnetic recording device Sukumar Rajauria, Erhard Schreck 2021-11-09
10468071 Magnetic storage device with heat-assisted magnetic storage head and associated method of manufacture Kenji Tasaka, Yuichiro Sano, Ehsan RISMANIYAZDI, Barry Cushing Stipe, Nobuyuki Okunaga +6 more 2019-11-05
9922676 Data storage device gradually decreasing laser power after write operation Erhard Schreck, Na Wang, Shaomin Xiong, Qing Dai 2018-03-20
8854764 Multiple-sense thermo-resistive sensor for contact detection of read-write heads Andrew Chiu, Sujit Kirpekar, Katalin Pentek, David J. Seagle 2014-10-07
8797671 Excitation of airbearing oscillation with tar nearfield device for touchdown detection Erhard Schreck 2014-08-05
8493688 Head slider and hard disk drive Rohit P. Ambekar, Karl A. Flechsig, Remmelt Pit 2013-07-23
8456780 Uncoupled piezoelectric milli-actuator assembly 2013-06-04
8279556 Slider air bearing for disk drives 2012-10-02
8270115 Asymmetrical air bearing surface for a head slider in hard disk drives 2012-09-18
8169743 Minimizing slider vibration effects on a magnetic transducer Bernhard E. Knigge 2012-05-01
8164860 Servo write robust and good altitude performance ABS Rohit P. Ambekar, Nghia Bach, Remmelt Pit 2012-04-24
8098458 Slider with shallow step pads and rear side pockets 2012-01-17
8094411 Slider with pockets in front of air bearing surface Weidong Huang 2012-01-10
7903375 Proximity recording slider with high air bearing damping in and out of contact Bernhard E. Knigge, Robert N. Payne 2011-03-08