Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 41 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6940669 | Wide write head with thermal asperity detector and method of using the same | Scott Franzen | 2005-09-06 |
| 6700727 | Slider and method for actively controlling crown curvature | Peter Crane, Anthony P. Sannino, Zine-Eddine Boutaghou | 2004-03-02 |
| 6604948 | Double-double (2×2) tester paddle board AKA 2×2 paddle board | Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Zuxuan Lin | 2003-08-12 |
| 6577466 | Head with active fly height control | Dallas W. Meyer, Zhu Feng, Chung Shih, Chiu-Shing Frank Poon, Vidyadhara K. Gubbi | 2003-06-10 |
| 6573711 | Paddle board with extended flexible leads | Frank W. Schadewald, Jr. | 2003-06-03 |
| 6563785 | Method of manufacturing rounded edge recording head | Phillip E. Gorka | 2003-05-13 |
| 6545844 | Clock head with spacer | Stephen John Miller, Gordon Jones | 2003-04-08 |
| 6507467 | Comb shunt for ESD protection | Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Scott Franzen | 2003-01-14 |
| 6503132 | Hybrid burnish/glide head with advanced air bearing fly height control rails | Robert P. Ekstrum, William Omar Liners, Laurie J. Schulz, Zuxuan Lin | 2003-01-07 |
| 6381098 | Laser textured transducing head slider | Zine-Eddine Boutaghou | 2002-04-30 |
| 6366416 | Glide test head with active fly height control | Dallas W. Meyer, Zhu Feng, Chung Shih, Chiu-Shing Frank Poon, Vidyadhara K. Gubbi | 2002-04-02 |
| 6358123 | Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height | William Omar Liners | 2002-03-19 |
| 6322431 | Burnish head with ion milled aerodynamic pads configured in an elliptical pattern | William Omar Liners, Daniel Paul Burbank | 2001-11-27 |
| 6320371 | Flex lead extender | Frank W. Schadewald, Jr., Robert P. Ekstrum | 2001-11-20 |
| 6309283 | Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height | William Omar Liners | 2001-10-30 |
| 6296552 | Burnishing head with fly height control spacer | Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, William Omar Liners, Joel William Hoehn, Andreas A. Polycarpou | 2001-10-02 |
| 6273793 | Apparatus and method for reducing disc surface asperities to sub-microinch height | William Omar Liners | 2001-08-14 |
| 6269687 | Force sensing slider | Jing Tony Zhang, Lei Zhang, Peter Segar | 2001-08-07 |
| 6216242 | Multiple-track magneto-resistive certification and thermal asperity test head | — | 2001-04-10 |
| 6205849 | Glide head using an ion etched air bearing | Zine-Eddine Boutaghou | 2001-03-27 |
| 6196062 | Trailing edge acoustic emission sensor and pyroelectric sensor for asperity detection | John S. Wright | 2001-03-06 |
| 6185993 | Single sided sensor for glide height testing | Zine-Eddine Boutaghou | 2001-02-13 |
| 6150813 | Method of connecting heads of a data storage system to a testing apparatus | Frank W. Schadewald, Jr. | 2000-11-21 |
| 6104556 | Wide write disc certification process, apparatus and article of manufacture | — | 2000-08-15 |
| 6079088 | Method of fabricating a data storage system head slider having an internal accelerometer | Zine-Eddine Boutaghou, He Huang | 2000-06-27 |