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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8072708 | Head suspension, load beam, and method of manufacturing load beam A load beam is capable of securing a required level of positioning accuracy for a slider, a load beam has a body and a dimple, the body is made of a plate having a first surface and a second surface, the dimple has a convex curved surface protruding from the first s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7924530 | Head suspension having a punched gimbal dimple with coined inclined inner and outer surfaces oriented at different angles and method of fabricating same A punched gimbal dimple with a coined, frusto-conical base in a head suspension and a method for producing such a dimple. The dimple has an apex and a base, the base having outer and inner surfaces which generally conform to conical frustums. The conical frustum hal... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907367 | Punched gimbal dimple with a coined periphery in a head suspension A punched gimbal dimple with an annular coined periphery extending outward from the dimple in a head suspension and a method for producing such a dimple. The dimple and its coined periphery are fabricated from a dimple punch and a die with a raised coining surface. ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7864488 | Suspension assembly including a dimple that contacts a flexure tongue dielectric layer through a hole in a flexure tongue structural layer A suspension assembly includes a load beam having a protruding dimple and a laminate flexure. The laminate flexure includes a structural layer that is attached to the load beam, and a dielectric layer. The laminate flexure includes a flexure tongue for mounting a he... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7835113 | Deep dimple structure for head suspension component Head suspension offset structures and methods of manufacture. The offset structure includes an offset extending out of a plane of a surface on which it is formed and a plurality of elongated voids and elongated links surrounding the offset. The links extend between ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7706105 | Hard disk drive, suspension assembly of actuator of hard disk drive, and method of operation of hard disk drive A suspension assembly of an actuator of a hard disk drive prevents collisions with a data storage disk of the drive. The suspension assembly includes a load beam, a bracket having a rear end at which the bracket is coupled to the load beam and a flexure, a slider th... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7688552 | Head gimbal assembly having dimple-shaft limiter and manufacturing method thereof and disk drive unit with the same A HGA includes a slider and a suspension for supporting the slider. The suspension includes a load beam, a base plate, and a flexure, which are assembled together. The flexure has a suspension tongue with a suspension through hole defined therein at a position corre... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7606002 | Offset dimple in a disk drive with head suspension flexure extending into load beam offset aperture A disk drive head suspension, including a load beam formed from one or more layers of material, and a flexure mounted to the load beam. The load beam has an offset aperture and stiffening rails, and is characterized by a Z-height dimension between the one or more la... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7593191 | HGA having separate dimple element, disk drive unit with the same, and manufacturing method thereof A HGA of the invention includes a slider, a load beam having a locating hole formed therein; a flexure to support the slider and connect with the load beam; a separate dimple element having a dimple to extend through the locating hole and support the flexure at a po... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7450346 | Method and apparatus for reducing heat absorption around solder pads on an electrical lead suspension An apparatus and method for reducing heat absorption around solder pads on an electrical lead suspension (ELS). The method provides a base-metal layer having at least one opening. A dielectric layer is also provided above the base-metal layer, the dielectric layer c... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7420779 | Disk apparatus having suspension provided with head support projections A disk apparatus, e.g., a magnetic disk apparatus has a storage medium in the form of a disk which is rotated and accessed, and is designed so as to reduce the occurrence of scratches on the storage medium due to contact between the head and the storage medium while... | 09/02/2008 |
| RE40203 | Magnetic head suspension assembly fabricated with integral load beam and flexure A magnetic head suspension assembly is fabricated with an integral piece which includes a load beam section, a flexure section, a rear mount section and a leaf spring section between the load beam and rear mount. A tongue extends from the load beam to the flexure an... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7327534 | Ultra fast backup (UFB) tape cartridge and method for loading same A cartridge for operatively housing a recording/playback medium comprising a first spool and a second spool located at offset positions inside a cartridge shell body; a recording/playback medium of a fixed width and length wound around the first and second spools; a... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318872 | Bonding method of magnetic head micro-motion actuator A bonding method of a magnetic head micro-motion actuator includes measuring clearances between the adhesive surfaces of the pair of movable arms and the magnetic head by locating the magnetic head at the center of the pair of movable arms during bonding the adhesio... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7293348 | Method of forming a suspension for use in a disk drive having a media disk A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material which has improved damping characteristics. The load beam additionally h... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289285 | Information storage systems An information storage apparatus includes a storage media including a plurality of information tracks. Each storage medium has a head assembly having a substantially planar surface and a plurality of read/write heads positioned in registry with the information track... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283330 | Method of manufacturing a suspension using coining A method of manufacturing a suspension member designed to carry a slider and read/write head elements in a magnetic data storage device. The method includes forming the suspension member into a desired length and width configuration with a nominal thickness dimensio... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283331 | Method and apparatus reducing off track head motion due to disk vibration in a hard disk drive The invention includes sliders provided with indented surfaces, reducing the roll center for head gimbal assemblies below the effective thickness of the slider. Head gimbal assemblies built with these sliders may reduce off-track displacements induced by disk vibrat... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283332 | Suspension with improved gimbal A suspension includes a load beam section and a gimbal section, which is formed with the load beam section as a single, continuous piece of material, having a top surface and a bottom surface. The gimbal section has a first end formed with to the load beam section a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7249520 | Self-loaded pendulum for slider flexure stiffness measurements A device is provided by which the stiffness coefficient of a flexure, in either a pitch or roll direction, can be measured while a slider is mounted thereon and while the flexure and slider are in a loaded condition as might be obtained during normal operational con... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236331 | System and method to provide a ramp having a location which is transitioning from a first grade to a second grade for removing a read/write head from a media Methods to provide a ramp to remove a read/write head connected with a suspension from a media in accordance with the present invention can comprise calculating a grade of one or more surfaces having a plurality of progressively shallower grades. A transition betwee... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230796 | Features for improved slider attachment A slider for supporting at least one transducer includes a slider body having a bearing surface and an opposing mounting surface. The slider also includes at least one adhesive control feature formed on the mounting surface to increase a surface area on which an adh... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7212381 | Slider having adjusted transducer recession and method of adjusting recession A method and apparatus are provided for adjusting recession of an element, such as a pole tip, in a transducer structure formed in a plurality of thin film layers on an edge of a slider. A pre-stressed structure is formed as part of the plurality of thin film layers... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196512 | Magnetic head tester The magnetic head tester of the present invention drives a medium for rotation to float a slider from the medium so as to test a magnetic head for its characteristics, and the tester includes a holder removably holding the slider opposed to the surface of the medium... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193820 | Head actuator having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external impact during the operating state. To achieve the object, according to t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7113370 | Slanted mounting for preload flat suspension An actuator arm of a magnetic disc drive having a mounting surface includes a mounting block having a sloped mounting surface. A base plate of a head gimble assembly is attached to the sloped mounting surface. The head gimbal assembly is unbent in its free state and... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7095592 | Head slider and disk drive apparatus Disclosed is a head slider having excellent shock resistance, a head supporter, as well as a disk drive using the head slider. The head slider is characterized in a form of its opposite-to-disk surface, such that a fixed point is set at a position located outwardly ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085103 | Magnetic head slider with side pads which each have a width W and a length L, wherein W>L A magnetic head slider, for sliding on a magnetic disk, which has a leading edge, a trailing edge, an air bearing surface having a front step bearing of submicron depth made from the leading edge, and a rail surface made from the front step bearing. A negative press... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082016 | Multilayer magnetic shields with compensated thermal protrusion A reader formed in a data transducer includes a first shield, a read gap, a second shield, a maanetic compensation layer, and a non-magnetic spacer layer. The first shield is formed of a multilayer comprised of a layer of a first material. The second shield is space... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079356 | Head arm assembly and disk drive apparatus with the head arm assembly An HAA includes a head slider having at least one head element, a high-stiffness arm member for supporting the head slider at one end section, an actuator, mounted to the other end section of the arm member, for rotationally moving the arm member in a direction subs... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072144 | Damping of vertical and offtrack dynamic modes gain at the slider in a disc drive The invention discloses an apparatus and method for passive damping of slider modes in a storage device. An exemplary apparatus comprises a cradle for supporting a slider and comprising two side members and a center member, where each of the side members are dispose... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7061722 | Magnetic head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk unit A magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk attached to a spindle so as to be rotatable, a slider having a magnetic head for reading/writing data onto/from the magnetic disk, a suspension for providing the slider with a predetermined load, and an actuator arm for ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057857 | Dimple pivot post for a rotary co-located microactuator A rotary microactuator-based head-gimbal assembly design controls the unwanted deflection of a flexure in a data storage device and eliminates hinge deformation. The head-gimbal assembly maintains the co-planarity of the hinged islands in the microactuator under the... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054109 | Balanced and damped suspension for use in a disk drive A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material which has improved damping characteristics. The load beam additionally h... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050267 | Head-gimbal assembly of hard disk drive A head-gimbal assembly of a hard disk drive includes a loadbeam connected to a pivot arm, a slider on which a magnetic head is mounted, an elastic support member having one end coupled to the loadbeam and the other free end portion at which the slider is supported, ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046484 | Magnetic head supporting device having dummy weight used to coincide mass and swing movement centers An object of the present invention is to provide a hard disk drive or related apparatus in which a possibility of head crash can be reduced to minimum even if the apparatus receives an external impact during the operating state. To achieve the object, according to t... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042816 | Optical pickup apparatus for optical disk drive and having a flexured floating slider An optical pickup apparatus for an optical disk drive records or reproduces data on or from an optical disk, includes an optical head section including an object lens focusing an incident light on the optical disk, a slider on which the object lens is mounted, where... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7038885 | Balanced and damped suspension for use in a disk drive A suspension for use in a disk drive is disclosed. The suspension has a hinge and load beam which are separately formed and subsequently joined together. The load beam is formed from a material which has improved damping characteristics. The load beam additionally h... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035054 | Magnetic head apparatus, magnetic head supporting mechanism and magnetic recording apparatus having an improved impact resistance A load beam is provided with a base plate and a slider. A magnetic head apparatus is fixed to a head arm via a base plate. In a mechanism or structure for supporting such a magnetic head supporting mechanism, an elastically deformable portion is provided between the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7016267 | Magnetooptical recording apparatus having retreatable magnetic head A magnetooptical recording apparatus that records information by applying a magnetic field from a magnetic head while irradiating a light beam onto a magnetooptical disk from an optical pickup. The apparatus includes an optical pickup, a magnetic head having a slide... | 03/21/2006 |
