Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 95 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8307156 | Adaptively modifying pre-read operations within a rotating media storage device | Gregory B. Thelin | 2012-11-06 |
| 8190575 | Disk drive maintaining multiple copies of code segments | Choo-Bhin Ong, An-Chieh Chang | 2012-05-29 |
| 7903369 | Method of fabricating disk drives using a common disk drive base with an attached weight plate, and a disk drive including the same | Wally Szeremeta | 2011-03-08 |
| 7561374 | Method of fabricating disk drives using a common disk drive base with an attached weight plate, and a disk drive including the same | Wally Szeremeta | 2009-07-14 |
| 7436625 | Disk drive spindle motor having a cavity defined by one of an upper surface of a stator support structure and a lower surface of a stator tooth | Shan-Shuong Chiou, Shuo-Hao Chen | 2008-10-14 |
| 7381904 | Disk drive printed circuit board with component-dedicated alignment line indicators including inner and outer line segments | — | 2008-06-03 |
| 7274639 | Disk drive performing multi-level prioritization of entries in a suspect sector list to identify and relocate defective data sectors | Dalwinder Singh | 2007-09-25 |
| 7120806 | Method for setting a power operating mode transition interval of a disk drive in a mobile device based on application category | Anil Sareen, Thomas Hanan | 2006-10-10 |
| 7099099 | Mobile device and disk drive restricted from reading a data storage zone in a mobile environment | Anil Sareen, Thomas Hanan | 2006-08-29 |
| 7095577 | Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings | Iftikhar K. Baqai | 2006-08-22 |
| 7088538 | Adaptively estimating a read access time to a second track based upon the binned radial position of the second track within a rotating media storage device | Gregory B. Thelin | 2006-08-08 |
| 7064918 | Reducing head gain calibration time in a disk drive | David D. Nguyen | 2006-06-20 |
| 7064922 | Disk drive with disks having different disk stiffness, thickness and material combinations | Steven J. Alfred, Serge Hauert, Lin Yang | 2006-06-20 |
| 7050258 | Disk drive and method for improved disk rotation control | — | 2006-05-23 |
| 7035026 | Method of manufacturing and disk drive produced by measuring the read and write widths and varying the track pitch in the servo-writer | William D. Johns, Charles A. Park, David D. Nguyen, Jack M. Chue | 2006-04-25 |
| 7031104 | Disk drive having guide-vanes | Arafat M. Butt, Kin-Cheok Pong | 2006-04-18 |
| 7023640 | Acceleration disturbance detection subsystem for use with disk drives | Lan V. Ngo, Norman D. Gardner | 2006-04-04 |
| 7013731 | Data storage testing apparatus for delivering linear or rotational acceleration | Wally Szeremeta, Arafat M. Butt | 2006-03-21 |
| 6995933 | Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings | Iftikhar A. Baqai | 2006-02-07 |
| 6989953 | Disk drive and disk drive-containing device having selectively controllable spindle motor spin up profiles | — | 2006-01-24 |
| 6975480 | Method for determining repeatable runout cancellation values in a magnetic disk drive using filtering | Hemant Melkote, Vinay K. Agarwal | 2005-12-13 |
| 6972539 | Disk drive employing commutation phase modulation and current modulation of a spindle motor | Timothy A. Ferris | 2005-12-06 |
| 6972926 | Disk drive having disk drive housing including airflow suppressor portion | — | 2005-12-06 |
| 6967811 | Disk drive having first and second seek operating modes for controlling voice coil motor temperature rise | David D. Nguyen, Alexander Babinski | 2005-11-22 |
| 6968422 | Disk drive employing a modified rotational position optimization algorithm to account for external vibrations | Mark F. Vallis | 2005-11-22 |