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Robert J. McNab

WT Western Digital Technologies: 20 patents #137 of 3,180Top 5%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12387755 Hard disk drive disk media curvature mitigation Daniel Nguyen, John Bianchini 2025-08-12
12230303 Center structure having attachment support for an actuator in a multi-actuator hard disk drive Jung-Seo Park, Thomas J. Hitchner, Siddhesh Vivek Sakhalkar 2025-02-18
11955139 Hard disk drive multiple contact disk spindle motor hub flange Rasool Koosha, Mukesh Patel, Antony Nguyen 2024-04-09
11935560 Hard disk drive multiple contact disk clamp Rasool Koosha, Mukesh Patel 2024-03-19
9379311 Apparatus for manufacturing piezoelectric actuators Yih-Jen D. Chen 2016-06-28
8756776 Method for manufacturing a disk drive microactuator that includes a piezoelectric element and a peripheral encapsulation layer Yih-Jen D. Chen 2014-06-24
7502192 Magnetic disk drive and method for efficiently determining and storing RRO compensation values using a secondary micro-actuator Zhi Wang, Min Chen, Jenghung Cheng 2009-03-10
7489464 Servo writing a disk drive using a secondary actuator to control skew angle Siri S. Weerasooriya 2009-02-10
7353524 Disk drive with airflow channeling enclosure Jen-Tai Lin, Jin Hui Ou-Yang, Chiao-Ping Ku, Shuo-Hao Chen, Lin Yang 2008-04-01
7304819 Method for writing repeatable runout correction values to a magnetic disk of a disk drive Hemant Melkote 2007-12-04
7298574 Servo writing a disk drive using correction values that attenuate phase error propagation Hemant Melkote 2007-11-20
7280319 Suspension assembly with piezoelectric microactuators electrically connected to a folded flex circuit segment 2007-10-09
7215514 Method of operating a disk drive including rotating a perpendicular write head to reduce a difference between skew and taper angles, and a disk drive Lin Yang, Lin Mei, William C. Tipton, II 2007-05-08
7027256 Disk drive having servo sectors that store repeatable runout correction values and related error correction code data Jai N. Subrahmanyam, Jack M. Chue 2006-04-11
6972922 Disk drive having internal data structures for efficiently storing repeatable runout cancellation information Jai N. Subrahmanyam, Jack M. Chue 2005-12-06
6972924 Disk drive attenuating excitation of arm vibration mode by simultaneously driving secondary actuator for non-active head Yih-Jen D. Chen, Jiasheng Zhu 2005-12-06
6963465 Method for preventing radial error propagation during self-servowriting of tracks in a magnetic disk drive Hemant Melkote 2005-11-08
6937420 Determining repeatable runout cancellation information using PES information generated during self servo-writing operations Hemant Melkote 2005-08-30
6924959 Reducing estimation period for repeatable runout errors in a disk drive Hemant Melkote, David D. Nguyen, John Yin Kwong Li 2005-08-02
6900958 Method and disk drive for improving head position accuracy during track following through real-time identification of external vibration and monitoring of write-unsafe occurrences Li Yi, Yanbin Song, David A. Spaulding, Arafat M. Butt, David D. Nguyen 2005-05-31