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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7996645 | Log-structured file system for disk drives with shingled writing Data is written to a hard disk drive using shingled writing principles, i.e., each data track is partially overwritten when an immediately contiguous data track is written. One or more contiguous data tracks establish a band, and a band establishes a respective segm... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7774679 | Techniques for performing reduced complexity galois field arithmetic for correcting errors Techniques are provided for performing Galois field arithmetic to detect errors in digital data stored on disks. Two 12-bit numbers or two 10-bit numbers are multiplied together in Galois field using tower arithmetic. In the 12-bit embodiment, a base field GF(2) is ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7747810 | Address assigning method, disk drive, and data writing method Embodiments in accordance with the present invention enable a disk drive of an address system to write data normally, wherein track groups of different track widths are discretely disposed on the storage medium in a same disk drive and the dimensional relationship a... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746586 | Media drive, processing method for recording data onto a medium, processing method for data read from a medium, and method for controlling a process for reading data from a medium Embodiments of the invention control a recovery procedure effectively in accordance with write conditions. In one embodiment, the data to be written into a sector includes not only user data but also recording condition data, which indicates the temperature prevalen... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7738205 | Recording disk drive and method of managing defective regions in the same Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to identifying an address of user data to be registered as a defective user data address in disk defect inspection. In an embodiment of the present invention, in the state where a write element is positione... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733589 | Alternate cylinder table to improve adjacent track interference problem Embodiments of the invention prevent data loss due to very frequent writing onto adjacent data tracks. In one embodiment, an alternate zone made up of multiple adjacent data tracks is formed by setting data tracks whose usage is to be prohibited for every other data... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724464 | Recording disk and disk drive Embodiments of the present invention provide a recording disk capable of curtailing the amount of servo data to be stored thereon, and a disk drive. According to one embodiment, servo data area sets each of a first servo data area and plural second servo data areas ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719785 | Disk drive device, manufacturing method thereof, and method for setting heater power value for a heater for adjusting a clearance Embodiments of the present invention help to accomplish accurate and reliable clearance control. In one embodiment of the present invention, a disk drive device adjusts the clearance between a head element portion and a disk with a heater on a slider. The clearance ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716509 | Storage and access control method for storage Embodiments of the invention prevent a storage from being continuously used in a state in which the time of a built-in clock is different from the actual time because of replacement of a battery or intentional tampering of time. In one embodiment, a storage having a... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706099 | Magnetic disk drive and method of controlling the same Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive, in which a disturbance component contained in an output signal from a rotational vibration detector, can be appropriately suppressed irrespective of frequency of the component, and a method of contr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706096 | Disk drive device manufacturing method thereof, and method for specifying data track pitch for the disk drive device Embodiments of the present invention help to increase the capacity and the reliability of a disk drive device to improve the manufacturing yield thereof. An embodiment of the present invention sets a data track pitch for each head slider (recording surface) in accor... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702012 | Infinite impulse response filter circuit and magnetic disk drive An infinite impulse response (IIR) filter circuit in accordance with an embodiment of the invention has transfer function coefficients that are adaptively changed. Using a Nth-order polynomial A(z) and a polynomial B(z) whose order is not higher than N, the transfer... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697224 | Storing AD sampled data of read/write channel into ECC SRAM An embodiment in accordance with the present invention enables storing in a memory, multi-bit data corresponding to analog signals read from a medium before being converted to single-bit data as recorded data. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AD convert... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7684138 | Magnetic disk drive, method for registering defective sector, and method for controlling flying height Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to detecting a micro-relief that exists on surfaces of a magnetic disk. A phase or frequency of a read signal obtained when data written to a minute projection or a minute concavity on a recording surface o... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679859 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with circuit board attachment device Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus that allows a mounting space for an electric signal wiring to be sufficiently secured relative to a circuit board and the circuit board to be secured stably to the case. In one embod... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675700 | Disk drive device and method for production thereof Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk device and a method for production thereof, the magnetic disk device being characterized in that the magnetic disk therein permits a plurality of tracks thereon to record correction data when necessary wit... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667914 | Direct coupled wide-bandwidth front-end with smart bias control amplifier Embodiments of the present invention provide a mixed-mode amplifier for amplifying signals in data storage devices such as disk drives. In one embodiments, a circuit for amplifying data signals comprises a magnetoresistive sensor having a bias voltage applied theret... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664884 | Media drive that creates a transfer unnecessary period, and power saving method thereof Embodiments of the present invention provide a media drive that is intended for reduction in power consumption required for serial communications to/from a host, and a power saving method thereof. In one embodiment, a HDD includes: a cache; a host interface for tran... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661187 | Manufacturing method for magnetic disk drive The present invention relates to providing the manufacturing method for a magnetic disk drive that includes the process steps of detecting and processing in a simplified way the defective sectors causing a reading error at low operating environmental temperatures. I... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660062 | Media drive, processing method for recording data onto a medium, processing method for data read from a medium, and method for controlling a process for reading data from a medium Embodiments of the invention control a recovery procedure effectively in accordance with write conditions. In one embodiment, the data to be written into a sector includes not only user data but also recording condition data, which indicates the temperature prevalen... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657794 | Data storage device and error recovery method Embodiments of the invention provide an error recovery scheme that allows a data read/write error in a data storage device to be processed within a short time, and a data storage device that attempts error recovery using the error recovery scheme. In one embodiment,... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653862 | Error detection and correction for encoded data Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for detecting and correcting encoded data. In one embodiment, a system for detecting and correcting errors in a plurality of data bits comprises a static memory configured to store a plurality of data bits; a s... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7646561 | Method of writing pattern in disk, method of following track on disk, and apparatus for writing pattern in disk Embodiments of the present invention efficiently perform servo correction for prevention of propagation of a position error in a radial direction in self servo write (SSW). According to one embodiment, in SSW, a target position of a reference track TO in writing a s... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636218 | Recording method, unload method, and magnetic disk Embodiments of the present invention prevent occurrence of a write pole erasure in the event of a power failure within a magnetic disk apparatus of a perpendicular magnetic recording system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a recording current i... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636217 | Defect inspection method of magnetic disk, device therefor, and magnetic disk drive device Embodiments of the present invention efficiently conduct a test for detecting defects on a magnetic disk more accurately. According to one embodiment, a HDD carries out defect inspection of a magnetic disk using thermal fly height control (TFC). Changing a clearance... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7631117 | Method for communicating between host and storage device, storage device, host, and system comprising storage device and host Embodiments of the invention improve the efficiency of communication processing between a host and a storage device. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a storage device and a host. The host gives the storage device an instruction to perform specifi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630170 | Sealing method for magnetic disk drive A magnetic disk drive is to be provided which not only can promote the reduction of size thereof but also maintain a state in which outside air does not directly enter the interior of a case. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk drive comprises a base member, the base... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626781 | Data recording device Embodiments of the present invention provide a data recording device capable of achieving desired performance while increasing the convergence rate. According to one embodiment, in a data recording device, an update-width determination unit included in a setting upd... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626780 | Magnetic disk drive Embodiments of the present invention help to provide a magnetic disk drive that is capable of reducing a time period necessary for positioning a magnetic head when positioning the magnetic head by use of a dual-stage actuator. According to one embodiment, a main con... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624275 | Disk drive, control method thereof and disk-falsification detection method Embodiments of the invention provide a falsification detection method which is capable of recognizing the substance of a falsification, applicable to not only a specific file system, but any arbitrary application writing data with a logical stricture, usable in a st... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624228 | Disk drive and method of controlling cache memory therein A processing speed is improved when there is a pattern in which read requests making access to continuous areas in an LBA space repeatedly alternate with write requests making access to continuous or non-continuous areas in the LBA space. In one embodiment, when the... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7619853 | Magnetic disk drive with mechanism for fixing flexible printed circuit assembly A magnetic disk drive is provided which can attain the reduction in size and thickness without deteriorating the sealing performance for a space defined by a base and a cover. In one embodiment, a cover member is fixed to a base member with fixing screws. An FPC ass... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7619849 | Magnetic disk drive with controlled transducer movement during a seek Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive with reduced noise during seek operation without causing any delay in control response. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a control circuit of a magnetic disk driv... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616397 | Disk drive and disk drive control method Embodiments in accordance with the present invention improve the head characteristic and avoid collisions between a head element section and a recording disk. A hard disk drive according to an embodiment of the present invention performs TFC (Thermal Fly height Cont... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613525 | Disk device for serial communication and method of controlling the same Embodiments of the invention provide a disk device and a method of controlling the device which is capable of suppressing peak current, even for serial communication, that is required when initiating rotation of a spindle motor down to a level equivalent to that of ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7607039 | Data storage device with re-allocation processing which determines an order in which re-allocation processing is executed for defective sectors Embodiments of the invention improve the security of data written on a magnetic disk by performing re-allocation processing starting from a sector whose defect is large in automatic re-allocation processing. According to one embodiment of the present invention, afte... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606948 | System and method for generating warranty and pricing information for data storage apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for generating warranty and pricing information for one or more data storage apparatuses. In one embodiment, a system for processing status parameters of one or more data storage apparatuses comprise... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7595955 | Disk drive device and method for error recovery procedure therefor Embodiments of the present invention help to achieve a read error recovery, and suppress decreases in the capacity of the disk drive device and degradation in performance. In one embodiment, a hard disk drive (HDD) performs following control without use of repeatabl... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7586707 | Magnetic disk drive with increased storage capacity Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of reducing an area used for a preamble of each data sector to increase the storage capacity. The magnetic disk drive adopts a data-surface servo system. In one embodiment, main preambles are written... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584070 | Testing/adjusting method and test control apparatus for rotating disk storage devices Embodiments of the invention provide a method of testing/adjusting magnetic disk devices, in which the method allows the tests/adjustments to be conducted by solving problems due to the data sizes and characteristics of test/adjustment programs. After assembly of a ... | 09/01/2009 |
