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Examiner: Chen, Tianjie


Primary examiner statistics: 554 patents; average approval time: 555 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 109 patents; average approval time: 1055 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7595961 Base member and information storage apparatus
7596073 Method and system for fluid mediated disk activation and deactiva...
7594240 Disk drive apparatus
7587727 Pickup device
7583476 Tolerance ring for data storage with cut-out feature for mass con...
7583473 Air bearing with both low altitude and speed sensitivities
7580225 Tolerance ring having variable height and/or assymmetrically loca...
7581235 Chucking apparatus
7576944 Shielding function for magnetic head in magnetic disk device
7577966 Disk apparatus
7576951 Perpendicular magnetic write head having a magnetic write pole wi...
7574717 Actuator for pickup, pickup device, recording medium drive device...
7573671 Disk device with reduced flutter
7573679 Magnetic head suspension
7570453 Method and apparatus reducing data damage from mechanical shock i...
7564646 Recording medium drive including electrostatic actuator between h...
7558027 Magnetic field sensor provided with an upper shield layer having ...
7555764 Cartridge and shutter used in the same
7554774 Magnetic resistance device and method of manufacturing the same
7554771 Tolerance ring for data storage with overlapping tab feature for ...
7551395 Main pole structure coupled with trailing gap for perpendicular r...
7551402 Magnetic disk drive and ramp
7552453 Disk driving apparatus
7551406 Dual electrical lapping guides with common bonding pad
7551400 Head suspension with vibration damping for a data storage device
7548399 Head stack assembly protecting member and method for installing h...
7545601 Magnetic disk drive with line contact
7546616 Optical storage media with embedded security device
7542242 FPC with via holes with filler being welded to suspension and dri...
7542244 Magnetic head to prevent undesired data erasure and magnetic disk...
7543316 Antenna designs for radio frequency identification tags
7543312 Optical pickup device
7542232 Motor unit including spindle motor and recording-disk-driving dev...
7540003 Optical pickup device, disk drive unit, and disk drive device
7538987 CPP spin-valve element
7538974 Apparatus of dynamic anti-vibration for storage device
7538976 Trailing shield design for reducing wide area track erasure (wate...
7538982 Adjustment system using ball-ended guide rods to align tape drive...
7535682 Magneto-resistance element and thin film magnetic head with impro...
7535669 Detection of data cartridges in an automated data storage library

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7414813 Vibration damped flexible circuit for use in a hard disk drive
6751182 Head feed mechanism for disk drive apparatus
6728188 Recording and/or playback apparatus of a recording medium with a ...
6721149 Tunneling magnetoresistance spin-valve read sensor with LaNiO3 sp...
6667860 Integrated, on-board device and method for the protection of ...
6611404 Disk apparatus having voice coil motor with two coils having diff...
6608733 Two-plane balance for spindle motors
6603634 Compressive spring sleeve for reducing disc slippage
6600701 Stacking unit for an electronic device with electromechanical swi...
6597548 Magnetoresistive element and magnetic head
6594115 Suspension with chamfered edge for disc drive
6594107 Magnetic disc apparatus having wiring on the outer bottom
6590745 Magnetic head, method of manufacturing same, and magnetic disk ap...
6587315 Magnetoresistive-effect device with a magnetic coupling junction
6587419 Electronic apparatus and apparatus for recording and/or playback ...
6577475 Thin-film magnetic head having reduced yoke length and method of ...
6574179 Disk adapter carried away from a mounted disk
6570739 Magnetic head having write head element with high aspect ratio co...
6563785 Method of manufacturing rounded edge recording head
6560186 Apparatus and method with a driving mechanism for opening a shutt...
6560192 Method and apparatus for dampening disk vibrations
6549368 Segmented plate hub hold down system for recording medium
6545839 Ergonomic safety mechanism for handling micro-sized computer hard...
6542342 Magnetoresistive effect transducer having longitudinal bias layer...
6542322 Rotary head apparatus with high rate of data transfer
6538971 Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and method fo...
6538849 Diamond-pattern directed tipping slip magnetic head
6535363 Magnetic resistance effect type thin-film magnetic head and metho...
6535364 Magnetic resistance element having four magnetization states and ...
6535349 Tape transfer with laterally moving head
6535471 Mechanism for loading disk into disk drive apparatus with shifted...
6526016 Transport mechanism for optical disc cartridge
6519220 Disk device with eliminatable gaps
6519113 Spindle motor assembly with polymeric motor shaft and hub for rot...
6515834 Side-arm microactuator with piezoelectric adjuster
6515945 Recording media library apparatus with a function to detect a pos...
6512727 Talking straw with guide ridge
6512728 Optical storage device and cartridge loading mechanism
6510131 Data storage disk cartridge including a shutter assembly with a s...
6510122 Disk drive device
 
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