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Ciuter Chang — 18 Patents

RRRead Rite: 12 patents #13 of 255Top 6%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 4 patents #793 of 3,180Top 25%
W(Western Digital (Fremont): 2 patents #232 of 473Top 50%
Fremont, CA: #939 of 9,298 inventorsTop 15%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Ciuter Chang has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Read Rite. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in April 2011. Ciuter Chang ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Ciuter Chang in Fremont, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7918013 System for manufacturing a group of head gimbal assemblies (HGAs) Victor Dunn 2011-04-05 $74,982,000
7363697 Method for manufacturing a group of head gimbal assemblies Victor Dunn 2008-04-29 $21,059,000
7019945 Air bearing slider including pressurized side pads with forward and trailing shallow etched surfaces Jih-Ping Peng, Ji-Feng Ying, Hung-Chang W. Huang 2006-03-28 $44,030,000
6937439 Slider having a textured air bearing surface, head stack assembly and disk drive using same Jih-Ping Peng, Ming-Ching Tang 2005-08-30 $5,968,000
6912103 Method of operating a disk drive with a slider at loading and unloading fly heights greater than an operational fly height Jih-Ping Peng, Ji-Feng Ying 2005-06-28 $13,680,000
6690545 Air bearing slider including a depressed region extending from a main support structure between a pressurized pad support base and a contact pad support base Ming-Ching Tang, Martin J. Smallen, Jih-Ping Peng 2004-02-10 $3,111,000
6339518 Air bearing slider with shaped taper Christopher Lee, Mark J. Donovan 2002-01-15 $17,238,000
6229672 High gram load air bearing geometry for a tripad slider Christopher Lee, Pablo G. Levi, Pravin Prabhu, Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne 2001-05-08 $12,257,000
6178064 Air bearing slider with shaped taper Christopher Lee, Mark J. Donovan 2001-01-23 $11,071,000
6147838 Air bearing slider with shaped taper Christopher Lee, Mark J. Donovan 2000-11-14 $11,607,000
5889637 Air bearing magnetic head slider Yiao-Tee Hsia, Mark J. Donovan, Pablo G. Levi 1999-03-30 $3,393,000
5889634 Reduced-altitude-sensitive subambient pressure air bearing slider Yiao-Tee Hsia 1999-03-30 $3,393,000
5754367 Air bearing slider having etched and shaped leading edge taper Pablo G. Levi 1998-05-19 $6,884,000
5704715 Altitude insensitive air bearing slider Yiao-Tee Hsia, Pablo G. Levi, Christopher Lee 1998-01-06 $6,274,000
5685645 Roll balance sub-ambient pressure air bearing slider Daniel A. Nepela 1997-11-11 $14,552,000
5606476 Altitude insensitive air bearing slider Yiao-Tee Hsia 1997-02-25 $23,516,000
5568981 Negative pressure air bearing slider Daniel A. Nepela, Yiao-Tee Hsia, Rajendra Bhadra 1996-10-29 $13,202,000
5359480 Magnetic head air bearing slider Daniel A. Nepela, Chak M. Leung 1994-10-25 $9,626,000