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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179637 | Magnetic storage apparatus having heated recording head A magnetic storage apparatus includes a magnetic storage medium including a recording layer, and a backing layer including a portion having a Curie temperature lower than that of the recording layer, a recording head that generates a magnetic field for recording fro... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164859 | Head slider producing reduced lubricant adsorption and magnetic storage apparatus A head slider includes a medium opposing surface configured to oppose a recording surface of a magnetic recording medium, a head element provided on the medium opposing surface, and an outlet end surface provided on a downstream side of the head element in a directi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151167 | Program processing device and program processing method A program processing device has a non-volatile storage, a volatile storage and a controller. The controller has a detector that detects a bit flip in the program, the variable data, and the constant data in the volatile storage, a constant recovery unit that, when t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130466 | Disk drive and magnetic circuit fixing method for the same A disk-drive magnetic circuit fixing structure and fixing method for fixing a magnetic circuit to a base by means of a plurality of screws, wherein provisions are made to substantially prevent a microscopic sliding movement involving impulsive vibration from occurri... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111475 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording apparatus According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium to which a signal is recorded by reversing magnetization of a magnetic body, includes: a servo region to which a servo signal is written; a data region configured to include a magnetic region of a track to whi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111474 | Eccentricity correction method, signal processing circuit, magnetic storage apparatus and perpendicular magnetic recording medium A magnetic storage apparatus has a reproducing head to reproduce information from a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that is recorded with servo information, eccentricity correction data and read/write data. The apparatus further has a filter part to filter a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107178 | Storage apparatus, method of detecting failure in head of storage apparatus, and storage medium storing failure detection program According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes: a read section that receives a predetermined electrical parameter to read out data from a recording medium; a characteristic detection section that detects a plurality of characteristic values corresponding ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102615 | Data storage apparatus A data storage apparatus includes: a medium for storing data having synchronization marks and data blocks, the synchronization mark and the data block being allocated alternately in the circumference direction of the medium; a head writing data into or reading out d... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098461 | Micro actuator device, head suspension assembly and storage medium driving device According to one embodiment, a micro actuator device, includes: a first piezoelectric element superposed on a first lower support plate coupled to a fixed plate; a second piezoelectric element superposed on a second lower support plate in parallel with the first low... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098453 | Magnetic storage medium and storage apparatus A magnetic storage medium includes: burst lines each including magnetic bodies placed in a nonmagnetic body in a predetermined repetitive pattern repeated in the radial direction, the burst lines arranged in the circumferential direction at predetermined intervals, ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098449 | Magnetic recording device, control device, and magnetic recording device control method A magnetic recording device includes: a magnetic recording medium including a write-synchronization region and a data region; a correction-value-storage unit configured to store therein a phase-correction value for correcting a phase of the write clock; a reading un... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094398 | Arrangement method of servo pattern of patterned medium, patterned medium, and information storage device According to one embodiment, address information is expanded on a bit map in order to generate original address information which is divided in a direction of the abscissa to form groups. The demodulated values of the original address information are obtained as ori... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8072702 | Atmospheric pressure measuring apparatus and method of measuring atmospheric pressure An atmospheric pressure measuring apparatus allows a transmitter to transmit an acoustic wave for measurement of the atmospheric pressure. Air propagates the acoustic wave. A receiver receives the acoustic wave. Since the intensity of the acoustic wave changes to fo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068307 | Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same According to one embodiment, a position control apparatus includes: a digital control module that performs position control including disturbance adaptive control with a predetermined sampling period with the use of a control constant, in accordance with a position ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065477 | Disk apparatus and advance data reading method Upon receipt of a read command or a write command from an external device, a disk apparatus stores an obtained address as a primary address and a secondary address in an address storing unit, increments a counter value of the secondary address, and selects the secon... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064155 | Storage apparatus A storage apparatus includes a magnetic storage medium which is formed with a data portion based on isolated magnetic dots and a servo pattern portion, a drive mechanism which drives the storage medium, a head actuator which includes a head for reading and writing d... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059351 | Magnetic recording apparatus and magnetic recording medium According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus includes: an information recording module configured to record a predetermined number of lines of information with a predetermined length in an information recording region of a magnetic recording medium, e... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055840 | Storage device including a controller for rearranging writing commands A storage device includes: a storage unit for writing data into a rotating storage medium via a writing head; a nonvolatile memory; a temporary storage memory for storing a plurality of writing commands temporarily; and a controller for executing the plurality of wr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049987 | Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same According to one embodiment, a position control apparatus includes: a digital control module that performs position control including disturbance adaptive control with a predetermined sampling period using a control constant, in accordance with a position error betw... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8032721 | Access control apparatus and access control method An access control apparatus includes a memory and a command executor executing an access process on a command with the command completion time limit. An address of an inaccessible recording area is stored in the memory. Data attempted to be written on the inaccessib... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8028142 | Controller of storage device, storage device, and control method of storage device A controller of a storage device having a user area storing an operating system, the storage device developing the operating system stored in the user area on a host device in accordance with an access from the host device. The controller includes a user authenticat... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023222 | Information storage device and computer product According to one embodiment, an information storage device includes a recording/reproducing head, a positioning controller, a position detector, a storage module, and a position error detector. The position detector detects the position of the recording/reproducing ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023219 | Storage device, head position detection method and control circuit According to one embodiment, a storage device includes an area demodulator and a head position demodulator. The area demodulator demodulates a first demodulation signal and a second demodulation signal having a phase difference of 90° from a read signal by a head o... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018674 | Disk drive and method of measuring frictional characteristics According to one embodiment, in a disk drive, a voice coil motor is controlled to cause a head to minutely vibrate in a radial direction on a track of a disk. When the voice coil motor vibrates the head in the radial direction of the disk, frictional force occurring... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014235 | Optical output device, magnetic storage medium drive unit, and head slider An optical device includes a clad composed of a material having a first refractive index, a core which is embedded in the clad, composed of a material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, and tapers toward the end-point thereof... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014107 | Suspension device A suspension device including a flexure with conductors is provided with an anti-ESD section. The anti-ESD section includes a metal plate, a insulating layer, a first electrically conductive member formed of a pair of read conductors, a second electrically conductiv... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009382 | Position control apparatus and disk apparatus using the same According to one embodiment, a position control apparatus includes: a digital control module that performs position control including disturbance adaptive control with a predetermined sampling period using a control constant, in accordance with a position error; and... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006562 | Atmospheric pressure measuring apparatus and method of measuring atmospheric pressure A receiver receives an acoustic wave in an atmospheric pressure measuring apparatus. Since a variation in the intensity of an acoustic wave reflects a variation in the atmospheric pressure, the atmospheric pressure can be measured based on the intensity of the acous... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000054 | Control device, control method, and information storage apparatus A control device includes an acquisition section which acquires a reading signal from a head under plural heat amounts, an computation section which computes plural kinds of characteristic values representing characteristics of the reading signal for each of the plu... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000050 | Magnetic storage control apparatus, magnetic storage control method, and magnetic storage apparatus A magnetic storage control apparatus for controlling a magnetic storage apparatus that uses a recording medium having a plurality of reference signals on its track and having a data area between the reference signals. The apparatus includes: a measurement section th... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000046 | Storage device, processor or storage device, and computer program product for providing parameter adjustment during read/write operations According to one embodiment, a storage device includes: ahead actuator configured to move a head to an arbitrary position on a disk medium; a write/read module configured to write data to or read data from the disk medium using the head; an adjustment region selecto... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7969682 | Head control device, storage device, and maximum power determining method A signal-level calculating unit calculates a signal level based on a gain signal. A sample generating unit associates heater power with the signal level and generates samples used for determining the maximum power. An approximation-line determining unit determines a... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7953502 | Position control method, position control device, and medium storage device having disturbance suppression function In a position control device having a disturbance suppression function, loop gain is calibrated without stopping disturbance suppression control. The position control device has, for disturbance suppression control, a feedback controller for changing the loop charac... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949795 | Power conservation in data storage device by only starting the active state when the measured time indicates data is present on the interface A storage device for storing data includes: an interface controller connectable to a host via a interface, the interface controller having an active state capable of transmitting data to the host and an inactive state having a lower power consumption than the active... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948698 | Pattern transfer apparatus and pattern transfer method A pattern transfer apparatus includes a storage-medium-surface detecting unit that detects a foreign substance or defect on a surface of a storage medium and specifies a position and a size of the foreign substance or defect; a relative-position adjusting unit that ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944648 | Head slider and storage medium driving device According to one embodiment, a head slider, includes: a slider body; an insulating nonmagnetic film configured to be laminated on an air outflow side end face of the slider body; a magnetoresistive effect film configured to be buried in the nonmagnetic film; first a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940488 | Storage device and gain adjusting device An amplifier amplifies, according to a first gain value, a first input signal acquired by reproducing first information from first areas having the first information recorded therein area by area in order. The amplifier also amplifies, according to a second gain val... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933086 | Power supply voltage supply circuit and disk apparatus Aspects of the present embodiment are related to a power supply voltage supply circuit and the disk apparatus that are capable of reducing power consumption in data writing and reading. The power supply voltage supply circuit includes a data processing unit writing ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920352 | Magnetic disk apparatus and data storage method A magnetic disk apparatus that uses a head to write data in a plurality of unit areas arranged in an adjacent relationship to each other on a surface of a magnetic disk, and includes: a first recording section that records, in a RAM, the position of a unit area whic... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7920349 | Phase adjusting device, magnetic storage medium, and storage device A magnetic storage medium such as a BPM includes a plurality of magnetic dots for writing and reproducing data disposed in a magnetically separated manner so as to be spaced a predetermined distance in a down-track direction and a plurality of tracks concentrically ... | 04/05/2011 |
