Issued Patents All Time
Showing 51–75 of 96 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7558015 | Actuation efficiency based contact detection | Rickmer Kose, Bruce Schardt, Davide Guarisco | 2009-07-07 |
| 7532434 | Recessed write pole for perpendicular recording | Gang Herbert Lin | 2009-05-12 |
| 7509728 | Method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Francis P. Crimi, Duc Bahn, Thao A. Nguyen, Kazuhiro Saito, Donald Brunnett +6 more | 2009-03-31 |
| 7502205 | Method of operating read and write transducers by controlling thermal actuation | Tony Hurtado, Wentao Yan, Lin Guo, Chris Hawks, Don Brunnett +2 more | 2009-03-10 |
| 7486459 | Disk drive with performance driven head-to-disk spacing | Anthony R. Hurtado, Andrew LeFebvre, Chris Hawks, Thao A. Nguyen, Scott Hughes +2 more | 2009-02-03 |
| 7443634 | Asymmetrical storage disk for a disk drive | Yanning Liu | 2008-10-28 |
| 7411389 | Method of detecting changes in operability status of a slider mover in a disk drive | Anthony R. Hurtado, Duc H. Banh, Tim R. Glassburn, Kazuhiro Saito, Scott Hughes +2 more | 2008-08-12 |
| 7400473 | Slider with independent fly-height adjustment of reader and writer | Douglas J. Krajnovich, Kaz Saito, Don Brunnett | 2008-07-15 |
| 7375915 | Disk drive that varies the power to a slider mover during transitions between drive operations | Joerg Ferber, Michael Mallary, Anthony R. Hurtado, Chris Hawks, Scott Hughes | 2008-05-20 |
| 7369345 | Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection | Yunfeng Li, Wei Guo, Tim R. Glassburn, Mark Heimbaugh, William Robert Flynn, IV +4 more | 2008-05-06 |
| 7362534 | System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive | Francis P. Crimi, Jingbo Yu, Michael Mallary, Scott Hughes, Duc Bahn +9 more | 2008-04-22 |
| 7355814 | Disk texture located in load/unload zone of disk for cleaning contamination and disk lubricant from head ABS surface | David E. Fowler | 2008-04-08 |
| 7345837 | Disk drive that refreshes data on portions of a disk based on a number of write operations thereto | Donald Brunnett, Hung Nguyen, Bruce Schardt, Andrew W. Vogan | 2008-03-18 |
| 7324299 | Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings | Donald Brunnett, Jingbo Yu, Francis P. Crimi, Scott Hughes, Duc H. Banh +7 more | 2008-01-29 |
| 7310194 | System for monitoring and dynamically adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Bruce Schardt, Jingbo Yu, Michael Mallary, Scott Hughes, Duc H. Banh +9 more | 2007-12-18 |
| 7310195 | System and method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive | Francis P. Crimi, Andrew LeFebvre, Duc H. Banh, Thao A. Nguyen, Brian D. Strom +1 more | 2007-12-18 |
| 7310196 | Parking a transducer responsive to a park signal | Robert E. Jackson, Timothy Glassburn, Donald E. Adams | 2007-12-18 |
| 7245452 | Disk drive with altitude detection via analysis of non-repeatable runout components | Timothy A. Riener | 2007-07-17 |
| 7227717 | Asymmetric disk surface properties in one head disk drives | Yanning Liu | 2007-06-05 |
| 7199960 | Disk drive with AC exciter for head/disk interface | Robert E. Eaton | 2007-04-03 |
| 7170700 | Method of determining side track erasure in a disk drive | Gang Herbert Lin, Kezhao Zhang, Don Brunnett, Duc H. Banh, Kurt Rusnak +4 more | 2007-01-30 |
| 7154700 | Disk drive that stores time varying characteristics thereof with data from a host device and associated methods | Donald Brunnett, Nick Warner, John P. Mead | 2006-12-26 |
| 7136889 | Method and apparatus for generating high quality real random numbers using a disk drive | — | 2006-11-14 |
| 7123435 | Method and apparatus for overwriting data in a disk drive | — | 2006-10-17 |
| 7095201 | Method and apparatus for providing a user selectable start-up current in a disk drive | Mark Heimbaugh | 2006-08-22 |