Issued Patents All Time
Showing 76–95 of 95 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6580574 | Mobile device comprising a disk storage system protected by a pressure-sensitive detector | — | 2003-06-17 |
| 6571460 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS | Shawn E. Casey, Roger Davis, Jorge Haro | 2003-06-03 |
| 6545835 | Method and apparatus for RRO learning before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive | Hanan Kupferman, Yoo H. Kim | 2003-04-08 |
| 6502300 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS | Shawn E. Casey, Roger Davis, Jorge Haro | 2003-01-07 |
| 6493169 | Disk drive employing spindle motor commutation time variation for reducing acoustic noise | Timothy A. Ferris | 2002-12-10 |
| 6462896 | Method for minimizing adjacent track data loss during a write operation in a disk drive | Donald R. Turner | 2002-10-08 |
| 6445524 | Method of operating a disk drive for writing to an addressable location after detecting that a head is within a safe-to-write window | Ara Nazarian | 2002-09-03 |
| 6369972 | Temperature monitoring method of a disk drive voice coil motor from a traveled distance | George S. Bouchaya | 2002-04-09 |
| 6349464 | Method of making a balance-compensated rotary actuator based upon track-follow performance of a rotatable test head stack assembly portion | Shawn E. Casey | 2002-02-26 |
| 6204988 | Disk drive capable of autonomously evaluating and adapting the frequency response of its servo control system | Edgar D. Sheh, Jie Yu | 2001-03-20 |
| 6198590 | Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for subsequently spinning it up | Terry C. Dawson, Carl R. Messenger, Steven Nemshick, Robert P. Ryan | 2001-03-06 |
| 6198584 | Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably located in data regions and method of using the same for calibrating a read head | Ara Nazarian, Brian K. Tanner | 2001-03-06 |
| 6104153 | Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for spinning it down and subsequently spinning it up | Steven Nemshick, Robert P. Ryan | 2000-08-15 |
| 6091564 | Disk drive with calibration bursts that are recorded on a spiral and method of recording the same | Timothy Elliott | 2000-07-18 |
| 6014283 | Non-quadrature servo burst pattern for micro-jogging a magnetoresistive head in a magnetic disk drive | Ara Nazarian, David D. Nguyen | 2000-01-11 |
| 5946157 | Method of seamlessly recording circumferentially successive servo bursts that overlap one another | Timothy Elliott, Ara Nazarian, Brian K. Tanner | 1999-08-31 |
| 5808440 | Hybrid communication method and apparatus for a three-phase brushless DC motor | George J. Bennett | 1998-09-15 |
| 5793558 | Method for seek time optimization employing voice-coil motor current saturation level to define an adaptive deceleration profile | David D. Nguyen | 1998-08-11 |
| 5650886 | Disk drive spindle motor start up using an additional motor winding upon startup failure | Donald G. Stupeck | 1997-07-22 |
| 5471353 | Disk drive employing multi-mode spindle drive system | Donald G. Stupeck | 1995-11-28 |