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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7436618 | Circuit and method for protecting emergency head-retract capacitor in a hard disk drive A protection circuit for a capacitor comprises a voltage pump that selectively charges the capacitor. A current source selectively charges the capacitor. A controller compares a charging voltage to a threshold charging voltage and selects at least one of the voltage... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436616 | Current pulsing for unloading A method and device for parking heads of a disk drive device involves receiving a command to immediately park the heads. A first pulse is provided to a voice coil motor causing the heads to move toward a parked position. After the first pulse, the VCM current is red... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436614 | Data storage device and data storage device control Embodiments of the invention provide a data storage device and its control method that are capable of minimizing the possibility of head deterioration while maintaining the minimum required sustained data rate. In one embodiment, each track is divided into three are... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436619 | Head floating amount control method and unit, storage apparatus and computer-readable program A head floating amount control unit control a head floating amount of each of a plurality of heads respectively having a heater, with respect to a recording medium, by detecting contact between each head and a corresponding recording medium by detecting a thermal as... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433144 | Dynamic system control method Techniques are provided herein for reducing vibrations in various modes of a dynamic system. One such technique comprises incorporating vibration limiting and sensitivity constraints into a partial fraction expansion equation model of the system so as to reduce vibr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433147 | Position control device, disk device, and position control method The present invention provides a disk device, a control device, and a positioning control method with which positioning in a target position can be performed without expending time on a seek operation even when virtual circular control is performed using an eccentri... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430091 | Method and apparatus for improving the performance of a disk drive An implementation of a disk drive with improved efficiency where a read head supported by a first positioning component is provided and a write head supported by a second positioning component is also provided. By positioning the write head behind the read head at a... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430090 | Storage apparatus, control method, control device, and program which preheats head Upon correction, a preheat sector number measurement unit measures a preheat sector number which corresponds to transition time from when electric power distribution to and heating of the heater by preheat electric power is started until when it is stabilized to a p... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430083 | Virtual head fly profile measurement A method for monitoring a data storage medium is provided in which a virtual head fly profile is measured. In addition, a data storage device for implementing the monitoring method is provided. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430088 | Retracting method of hard disk drive, hard disk drive adopting the method, and recording medium storing program for executing the method A retracting method of compensating for a time for parking and unloading with an additional floating force obtained by additionally operating a spindle motor for a predetermined period after a retract operation is started, a hard disk drive (HDD) adopting the method... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7429857 | Magnetic head and disk X-Y test assembly with optimized arrangement for skew angle A magnetic head and disk tester comprises a base, a spindle for rotationally supporting a magnetic disk, a carriage for supporting a magnetic head support which carries a magnetic head with a magnetic read/write element, and a dual-stage positioning system that move... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430089 | Data storage device and write processing method for data storage device A data storage device executes sector guarantee processing at an unexpected power supply disconnection. The sector guarantee processing can be accurately performed even if the fluctuation of power supply voltage during normal operation is high. The voltage of the po... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428117 | Servo signal inspecting device and method for inspecting servo signal A servo signal inspection device and a method for detecting servo signal are provided which can measure and evaluate quality of the servo signal on a magnetic tape with a sufficient resolution. The device includes a servo signal inspecting head, a peak detecting mea... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428118 | LTM compensation methods and systems for magnetic servo writing Methods and systems are provided for writing a magnetic servo track. In one example, a system includes a head assembly having first and second write elements, and a controller. The controller operable to receive a position signal associated with a position of the ma... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428119 | Magnetic disk drive with head retraction control Embodiments of the invention improve utility of a magnetic disk drive in which a head is retracted if the magnetic disk drive is in a dropping state. In one embodiment, an HDC/MPU provided in a magnetic disk drive judges whether the magnetic disk drive is in a dropp... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426089 | Disk drive with heater for slider and control method thereof Embodiments of the invention allow a heater to reduce the clearance between a head element section and the magnetic section while reducing the risk of collision between the head element section and the magnetic disk during load/unload. In one embodiment, an HDD judg... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426090 | Storage device, control device, control method, and program A heater for changing a projection distance protrusion value by thermal expansion accompanying electric-power-distributed heating is embedded in a head having a reading element and a recording element. A clearance control information measurement unit measures and sa... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423832 | Controlling head heating based on upcoming data sector write pattern A disk drive includes a rotatable data storage disk, a head, a heater element, and a controller. The disk includes a plurality of data sectors between servo spokes. The head is configured to fly on an air cushion relative to the rotating disk while writing data on t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423829 | Circuit for flying height on demand A hard disk drive with a control circuit that controls a heating element in a head of the drive. The heating element is driven by a voltage. The control circuit varies the voltage during read and write operations of the drive. The voltages are varied to minimize flu... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423831 | Utilization of the acceleration zone in ammonite servo writing A method for writing servo information onto a disk of a hard disk drive with a servo writer. The method includes accelerating a head to a constant velocity across a disk. The disk being defined as having an acceleration zone and a constant velocity zone. The head is... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423830 | Detecting head/disk contact in a disk drive using a calibration parameter A disk drive having a heater element on the read/write head includes control circuitry to prevent head/disk contact by limiting power to the heater element. As the power to the heater element increases, thermal expansion reduces the fly height until head/disk contac... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420761 | Control apparatus, storage device, and head retraction controlling method A falling-time measuring unit measures time for which a fall of a storage device is consecutively detected by a fall detecting sensor. A head-position detecting unit detects a position of the head on a storage medium at a time of starting measuring the time. A movin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420762 | Head slap detecting device, storage device, head slap detecting method, and computer product A head-slap detecting device detects a head slap. The head slap causes a storage medium to be slapped by at least one storage-medium driving unit that performs at least one of reproduction and recording of data from and to the storage medium. The head-slap detecting... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420760 | Method and apparatus reducing flying height drop in a hard disk drive under humid conditions A slider with an intake heater near front edge heating air passing between air bearing surface and rotating disk surface to reduce change in flying height caused by water condensation. Method of operating the slider. Head gimbals assembly including slider. Head stac... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417820 | 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 suspensi... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414808 | Apparatus and method for adaptively adjusting recording density of a disk utilizing a trapezoidal shaped magnetic head An apparatus and method is provided for storing and retrieving information from a disk in which a TPI (tracks per inch) profile of a disk drive including a write pole having a trapezoidal cross-section is adaptively varied. The method includes comparing the slope an... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411759 | Detection and measurement of position error signal linearity in timing based servo patterns using differential nonlinearity Systems, computer implemented methodology, and computer readable media for measuring position error signal differential nonlinearity in timing based servo patterns. A set of two or more reading heads, positioned at various locations along a servo stripe and orientat... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411758 | Disk drive servo control using spirals A servo control system includes a peak detection module that detects peak times of spiral signals generated by reading spirals prewritten on a magnetic medium. The servo control system includes a control module that determines positions of the spirals based on the p... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411752 | Head vibration detection device and method A disc drive including a transducer supported on the head suspension assembly to induce a transducer signal in response to head vibration. The transducer signal is level detected to output a level detected signal indicative of head vibration. A method for detecting ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411760 | System and method for correcting for head tilt in HDD Tilt between a head stack and its associated disk stack in a hard disk drive (HDD) is measured by determining the deviation of a target head from its expected position (based on the position of the current head) each time electrical contact is switched from the curr... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408734 | Preventing damage to the heads and media in a removable cartridge and disk drive A disk drive uses the integration of the instantaneous velocities of the heads to estimate the distance the heads travel while latched. The disk drive can then determine if the heads are properly parked based solely on the distance traveled, thus avoiding the use of... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408732 | Shock resistant, high reliability rotating magnetic storage device and method An information recording method in a rotating storage apparatus comprising a rotating recording medium for recording information, a head for performing at least a write operation onto the rotating recording medium, and an acceleration sensor for detecting a shock. T... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405896 | Method and apparatus for detecting slider/disk fly-height modulation in a hard disk drive A method and apparatus for detecting slider/disk fly-height modulation in a hard disk drive is provided. A slider is electrically isolating from an electrically grounded suspension. A signal line is coupled to the slider, the signal line for providing an alert signa... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7405897 | Single-pass self-servowriting method and system employing a low sector rate startup procedure A self-servowriting (SSW) method that, with the actuator fully engaged against a compliant structure (e.g., a crashstop), first writes a tightly-spaced open-loop sequence of servo bursts in a segmented spiral path and then continues writing this tightly-spaced seque... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403352 | Acceleration sensor and magnetic disk drive apparatus An acceleration sensor includes a housing member, a spring member attached to the housing member, a magnetic field generation member fixed to the housing member, and at least one magnetic field detection sensor and a weight member, fixed to the spring member so that... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403350 | Multiple servo sensor configuration for magnetic tape timing based servo Multiple servo sensors are laterally displaced over a distance less than the transverse width of timing based servo track laterally extending transitions. The servo sensors are configured to sense the transitions, and servo detection logic detects the relative timin... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400468 | Vibration detector for hard disk drives A hard disk drive with a circuit that provides a control signal to a voice coil motor to move a head across a disk. The disk drive includes a circuit that provides a control signal to the voice coil motor to move the head. The circuit also has a state predictor and ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397623 | Using a mechanical stop for determining an operating parameter of a data handling device Several readings of an actuator's location are taken with a given head while urging the actuator against a mechanical stop, which acts as a guide. These readings are useful, for example, for estimating certain offsets or for determining a nominal track range for a d... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395709 | Fall detection device A fall detection device is provided, which accomplishes a fall judgment on acceleration by a simple calculation and improves uniformity of effective threshold value for the acceleration judgment as to a direction of an applied acceleration vector. The fall detection... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397621 | Servo pattern characterization on magnetic disks In one embodiment, a surface analyzer system comprises a radiation targeting assembly to target radiation onto a surface, a reflected radiation collecting assembly that collects radiation reflected from the surface, and a signal processing module. The signal process... | 07/08/2008 |
