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Bruce A. Liikanen — 166 Patents

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Showing 151–166 of 166 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7019937 Method and apparatus for determining a transducer's reference position in a disk drive having a disk surface with spiral servo information written thereon John VanLaanen, Steve Ward 2006-03-28
6987628 Method and apparatus for high fly write detection using stored amplitude values Jerry Moline, Julian Lewkowicz 2006-01-17
6985316 Method and apparatus for performing seek operations in a disk drive having a disk surface with spiral servo information written thereon John VanLaanen, Bill Ray 2006-01-10
6977792 Method and apparatus for runout correction by proper positioning of servo data while self-servo writing Thomas O. Melrose, James W. Hargarten 2005-12-20
6882489 Dynamic off-track detector Don Brunnett, John C. Purkett 2005-04-19
6678102 High fly write detection method Julian Lewkowicz, Larry J. Koudele 2004-01-13
6606216 Transducer head with separate data and servo read elements Moris Dovek, John C. Purkett 2003-08-12
6600636 Magnetic head with write element offset from read element Terry Schemmel, Jenny Himle 2003-07-29
6433950 Disk drive with radially dispersed servo bursts 2002-08-13
6292324 Disk drive with compensation values calculated using a non-causal impulse response Hai T. Ho, Toan Q. Doan 2001-09-18
6256160 Programmable, variable data track pitch Lance R. Carlson 2001-07-03
6157511 Disk drive with variable-phase servo burst patterns 2000-12-05
6115203 Efficient drive-level estimation of written-in servo position error Hai T. Ho, Toan Q. Doan 2000-09-05
6043952 Method of positioning a head in a disk drive using groups of servo bursts 2000-03-28
6005740 Method and apparatus for developing position error curves for magneto-resistive heads 1999-12-21
5923492 Variable-phase servo burst pattern used to minimize shield-related side readings 1999-07-13