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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110255194 | Elastic member structure of magnetic head An improved elastic member structure of a magnetic head comprises: a base having a first and a second holder plates, a first through hole being formed on the first holder plate, and a gap being formed between the first and second holder plates; a fixing base plate being... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20100321832 | TOLERANCE RING ASSEMBLY A tolerance ring has a band with outwardly extending corrugated protrusions forming waves that engage an outer surface of a shaft. At one end of the tolerance ring is an inwardly flared guide surface extending axially and radially from the band. The guide surface acts a... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100309587 | FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING, SPINDLE MOTOR HAVING THE FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING, AND STORAGE APPARATUS HAVING THE SPINDLE MOTOR A fluid dynamic bearing is configured that a distance L1 from an annular region of a cover member along a direction of an axis of rotation to a first thrust bearing surface of a radial bearing member, and a distance L2 from a stopper surface of a stopper p... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100128396 | LOCATING FEATURE FOR MOUNTING A COMPONENT TO A BASE The present disclosure provides an apparatus for mounting an object to a base. In one example, the apparatus includes a base and a protuberant feature extending from the base. The protuberant feature includes a datum surface sized to matingly engage a corresponding surf... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20090323221 | HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY AND DISK DRIVE UNIT PROVIDED WITH THE SAME According to one embodiment, a head stack assembly includes stack members stacked on a bearing unit, a suspension and a head on one of the stack members, and an elastic member being between the stack members to damp vibration when there is the vibration which is transmi... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090257142 | HEAD ASSEMBLY IN A DEPOPULATED CONFIGURATION The application relates to utilizing a head assembly, having a default boot-up head and at least one other head, in a depopulated configuration. If, during testing of the head assembly, the default boot-up head is found to be flawed, it designated as faulty in a non-vol... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090237842 | LOW TRACK-PER-INCH (TPI) ZONE WITH REDUCED NEED FOR ADJACENT-TRACK-ERASURE (ATE) REFRESH Methods and systems are shown that specify at least one low track-per-inch (TPI) region and at least one normal TPI region on a disk. The low TPI region may be used to store information that may be rewritten frequently. The normal TPI region may be used to store informa... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090231760 | HEAD CLIP AND WORKING METHOD USING THE SAME A head clip used in a task of assembly, inspection, and maintenance such as repair or cleaning of a device having a head attached to an actuator, and to a working method using the head clip. The heads are located at an extreme end of the actuator. The head clip includes... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090195933 | HEAD ASSEMBLY A head assembly for writing or reading information to or from a recording medium. The head assembly includes a suspension having an electrode pad; a mounting member placed on the suspension; a head mounted on the mounting member and having an electrode, for writing or r... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090195919 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A SUSPENSION In a method of fabricating a suspension, a suspension has first and second opposing surfaces and includes a flexure, a load beam, a mounting arm, and traces. The flexure is coupled to a proximal end of the load beam, and the mounting arm is coupled to a distal end of th... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090128951 | ELECTRONIC INFORMATION STORAGE APPARATUS WITH NON-LUBRICATED MEDIA Described herein are various embodiments of an electronic information storage apparatus and an associated method and system. For example, according to one illustrative embodiment, a disk drive comprises a base and at least one disk that are rotatably attached to the bas... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090080112 | HARD DISK DRIVE MOUNTING METHOD, MAGNETIC BLOCK AND CLAMP DEDICATED FOR THE METHOD The method of the present invention for assembling a hard disk drive includes the following steps: 1) Position a head stack assembly onto a fixture; 2) position a magnetic block assembly onto the fixture; and 3) move the magnetic block assembly horizontally, making an u... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20080186629 | Method of producing a magnetic disk device with servo data recorded on magnetic disk, head amplifier for magnetic disk device and disk device Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of producing a magnetic disk device in which a plurality of heads can appropriately record servo data on a magnetic disk. The method of producing the magnetic disk device according to one embodiment includes the step... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080180849 | Magnetic head support, manufacturing methods therefor, and magnetic disk device According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for manufacturing a magnetic head support having a piezoelectric device on a metal plate member comprises the steps of: providing a metal plate member; forming a piezoelectric layer of a piezoelectric material on the pla... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080158725 | Vibration damping utilizing a patterned visco-elastic polymer A micro-machined vibration-damping device comprises a patterned visco-elastic polymer and a substrate for receiving the patterned visco-elastic polymer.... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080137233 | HEAD SUPPORT MECHANISM, MAGNETIC HEAD ASSEMBLY, AND MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE APPARATUS A head support mechanism includes a suspension for supporting a magnetic head slider with a thin-film magnetic head, having a slider mounting section on which the magnetic head slider is fixed, and a heating unit formed on the slider mounting section of the suspension. ... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080130174 | Fixing method, head support mechanism and information recording apparatus The present invention aims to accurately fix members together and includes: an arranging process in which a cylindrical section of a second member of which inner wall has a noncircular cross-sectional shape is inserted into a bore made in a first member and the second m... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080074792 | CONTROL SCHEME FOR A MEMORY DEVICE A system for storing information comprises a media die including a frame and a media platform movably coupled with the frame, a media associated with the media platform, one or more capacitive sensors including an electrode fixedly connected with the media platform, and... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080055781 | Reverse touch lapping process for sliders Systems and methods for making sliders having larger roll off shapes and smaller pole tip recessions on the overcoat areas of air bearing surfaces (ABS) are provided. In certain example embodiments, at least one row bar may be positioned on a lapping machine's mounting ... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080002301 | Head function evaluating apparatus and storage medium driving mechanism unit A head function evaluating apparatus designed to evaluate the function of a head. The apparatus allows the head to read out signals from a storage disk. The storage disk is mounted on a rotation shaft of a fluid bearing motor. The fluid bearing motor is employed to driv... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070139818 | Thin-film magnetic head with near-field-light-generating layer A thin-film magnetic head that has a configuration in which the element-formed surface and the opposed-to-medium surface are perpendicular to each other, and a light source is sufficiently distanced from the medium surface is provided. The head comprises at least one ne... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070143054 | Fastener A method for dynamic electrical testing of head gimbal assemblies may include initiating an automated continuous process that includes selecting an unmounted head gimbal assembly; aligning the unmounted head gimbal assembly; loading the unmounted head gimbal assembly to... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070103815 | MAGNETIC HEAD ASSEMBLY, MAGNETIC HEAD DRIVE APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC HEAD ASSEMBLY A magnetic head assembly includes a magnetic head slider with an element-formed surface on which at least one MR read head element is formed, an ABS to be opposed in operation to a magnetic recording medium and a fixing surface that is the other side of the ABS, and a s... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070097551 | Method and Structure for Integrated High Density Memory Device The present invention provides a method and device for fabricating high density memory device. Similar to a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the integrated memory device is consisted with a rotating media plate and a Read/Write (R/W) head on a movable suspension. Unlike HDD where... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070053108 | Glide head for magnetic disk Disclosed is a glide head for a magnetic disk that has a high sensitivity for efficiently transmitting a vibration due to a defect of a magnetic disk to piezoelectric element and the like and has high abrasion resistance and a long service life. The glide head is resili... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070047146 | Multi-format magnetic head A magnetic head includes a first array of elements associated with a first data format and a second array of elements associated with a second data format, the elements being selected from a group consisting of readers, writers, and combinations thereof. The first and s... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070047147 | Actuator of optical pickup head with horizontal-arranged magnetic field generator and coil apparatus An actuator of an optical pickup head with horizontal-arranged magnetic field generator and coil apparatus. The actuator includes a lens holder, a magnetic field generator and a coil apparatus. The coil apparatus is horizontally disposed at one side or two sides of the ... | 03/01/2007 |
| 20070041129 | Magnetic disk apparatus A head support mechanism includes a head to read/write information, and an actuator for moving the head. Flanges are provided on opposite sides of a load beam of the head support mechanism, and at least one recessed portion is provided on the load beam. A thickness of t... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20050237669 | Manufacturing method of thin-film magnetic head, thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly with thin-film magnetic head, and magnetic disk apparatus with head gimbal assembly A manufacturing method of a thin-film magnetic head included a step of cutting a wafer on which a large number of thin-film magnetic head elements are formed into rowbars each of which has a plurality of aligned thin-film magnetic head elements, a step of cleaning, by a... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050018351 | Spindle motor for hard disk drives having an axially attached bearing system A spindle motor for hard disk drives having a base-plate, a stator, a rotor, a shaft, a bearing recess formed in either the rotor or the base-plate; and an upper roller bearing and a lower roller bearing. Each roller bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring. Inn... | 01/27/2005 |
