Issued Patents All Time
Showing 51–75 of 95 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6788480 | Method and apparatus for determining track density during a servo-track writing operation | William D. Johns | 2004-09-07 |
| 6782449 | Adaptively modifying a read caching algorithm based upon the detection of a vibration state within a rotating media storage device | Steven L. Webb | 2004-08-24 |
| 6781787 | Adjusting seek current profile on the fly | Kent W. Gibbons | 2004-08-24 |
| 6781780 | Method and system for preventing data loss from an off-track write condition in a disk drive by rewriting data buffered from an adjacent track | — | 2004-08-24 |
| 6760186 | Disk drive having first-written servo wedge marked and method for forming marked servo wedges | Jim G. Saunders | 2004-07-06 |
| 6751041 | Method and apparatus for selecting servo track writing speed | Joseph M. Viglione | 2004-06-15 |
| 6738220 | Servo settling by utilization of a bias torque offset value which depends on the memory of previous seek operations | — | 2004-05-18 |
| 6735041 | Method for seeking in a magnetic disk drive having a spiral track | Charles Frank | 2004-05-11 |
| 6735033 | Method for recovering from shock events occurring to a disk drive during data write operations to improve data reliability | Michael S. Rothberg | 2004-05-11 |
| 6731450 | Disk drive control system and method for determining the temperature of an actuator coil | George J. Bennett | 2004-05-04 |
| 6724564 | Seek distance dependent variable max VCM seek current to control thermal rise in VCM's | David D. Nguyen, David L. Whitaker | 2004-04-20 |
| 6714372 | Method of manufacturing a disk drive by measuring the read width in the servo-writer to set the write unsafe limit | William D. Johns | 2004-03-30 |
| 6714371 | Method and disk drive for shock estimation and write termination control | — | 2004-03-30 |
| 6710966 | Method for reducing an effect of vibration on a disk drive during a track following operation by adjusting an adaptive-filter gain applied to an acceleration sensor signal | Aswartha Narayana, Lan V. Ngo | 2004-03-23 |
| 6707641 | Spindle motor having stator rim formed of concentric laminate layers | Kamran Oveyssi | 2004-03-16 |
| 6707637 | Disk drive including disk spacer with different side surface patterns | Serge Hauert, Steven J. Alfred | 2004-03-16 |
| 6707635 | Method and apparatus for RRO learning on alternate tracks before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive | Donald R. Turner | 2004-03-16 |
| 6697217 | Disk drive comprising a coating bonded to a printed circuit board assembly | — | 2004-02-24 |
| 6690637 | Disk drive including disk clamp with non-symmetric engaged fastener holes and fastener torque | — | 2004-02-10 |
| 6674600 | Disk drive having separate motion sensors for base and actuator | Charles R. Patton, III | 2004-01-06 |
| 6661597 | Mobile device and disk drive restricted from writing a data storage zone in a mobile environment | Anil Sareen, Thomas Hanan | 2003-12-09 |
| 6657811 | Mobile device and disk drive having a seek current profile responsive to an environment signal | — | 2003-12-02 |
| 6628473 | Mobile device having disk drive including a data storage zone with a data track pitch configured for use in a mobile environment | Thomas Hanan, Anil Sareen | 2003-09-30 |
| 6614615 | Disk drive with adaptive control path that produces an adaptive control effort based on a characterized deviation between actual and modeled plant response | Yie Ju | 2003-09-02 |
| 6594111 | Spindle motor having stator rim formed of curved arc segments | Kamran Oveyssi | 2003-07-15 |