Control of flying height

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GPHYSICS G11Information storage G11BINFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER G11B5/00Recording by magnetisation or demagnetisation of a record carrier Reproducing by magnetic means Record carriers therefor

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G11B5/6011Control of flying height

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Magnetic disk device
- Patent number 12,112,779
- Issue date Oct 8, 2024
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Toru Watanabe
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Active spacing control for contactless tape recording
- Patent number 12,051,453
- Issue date Jul 30, 2024
- L2 Drive Inc.
- Karim Kaddeche
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Continuous dual path resistance detection for resistive temperature...
- Patent number 11,961,542
- Issue date Apr 16, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- John Contreras
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Slider with bond pad arrangements
- Patent number 11,935,569
- Issue date Mar 19, 2024
- Seagate Technology LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Method of processing a slider
- Patent number 11,636,875
- Issue date Apr 25, 2023
- Seagate Technology LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- B24 - GRINDING POLISHING
Information Patent Grant
Slider air bearing designs with higher pressure and higher thermal...
- Patent number 11,594,247
- Issue date Feb 28, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Biao Sun
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device writing to defective data sector for fly height...
- Patent number 11,404,079
- Issue date Aug 2, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Joey M. Poss
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Selectively activating microactuators on a head gimbal assembly
- Patent number 11,393,496
- Issue date Jul 19, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Hassene Atitallah
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device calibrating fly height actuator for multiple he...
- Patent number 11,295,774
- Issue date Apr 5, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sandy Xianghui Xiao
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Method of processing a slider
- Patent number 11,037,585
- Issue date Jun 15, 2021
- Seagate Technology LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
Information Patent Grant
Load/unload ramp mechanism for reduced cracking
- Patent number 10,943,614
- Issue date Mar 9, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Jianqian Xu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device reverse biasing head element to counter electro...
- Patent number 10,825,474
- Issue date Nov 3, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Joey M. Poss
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat si...
- Patent number 10,796,717
- Issue date Oct 6, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Suping Song
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat si...
- Patent number 10,789,975
- Issue date Sep 29, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Suping Song
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
High power ratio mode for TAMR drives
- Patent number 10,679,653
- Issue date Jun 9, 2020
- SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
- Qinghua Zeng
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Magnetic recording and reading apparatus and magnetic recording method
- Patent number 10,672,419
- Issue date Jun 2, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Takuya Matsumoto
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Bumper pad design for TAMR drives
- Patent number 10,629,233
- Issue date Apr 21, 2020
- SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
- Siu Yin Ngan
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device reverse biasing head element to counter electro...
- Patent number 10,566,018
- Issue date Feb 18, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Joey M. Poss
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Magnetic head control capable of avoidance media bumps during seeki...
- Patent number 10,431,247
- Issue date Oct 1, 2019
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Tetsuo Kuribayashi
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Methods, devices, and systems for establishing fly-height parameter...
- Patent number 10,311,905
- Issue date Jun 4, 2019
- Seagate Technology LLC
- ChengYi Guo
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device using performance margin to back off fly height
- Patent number 9,997,186
- Issue date Jun 12, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Puneet Bhargava
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Heat assisted magnetic recording slider having a consistent close p...
- Patent number 9,978,405
- Issue date May 22, 2018
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Zoran Jandric
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Bond pad sharing for powering multiple writers of a recording head
- Patent number 9,934,807
- Issue date Apr 3, 2018
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Declan Macken
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Electronic system with head management mechanism and method of oper...
- Patent number 9,842,617
- Issue date Dec 12, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Phillip Scott Haralson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Writing adjacent tracks with different widths by varying fly height...
- Patent number 9,830,944
- Issue date Nov 28, 2017
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Riyan Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Determining gamma of a read/write head based on active gain control...
- Patent number 9,818,439
- Issue date Nov 14, 2017
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Jason Riddering
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Resistive temperature sensors for improved asperity, head-media spa...
- Patent number 9,812,161
- Issue date Nov 7, 2017
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Manuel Charles Anaya-Dufresne
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head o...
- Patent number 9,786,309
- Issue date Oct 10, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Bernhard E. Knigge
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measurin...
- Patent number 9,786,310
- Issue date Oct 10, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hans J. Richter
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Head-medium contact detection using an oscillating electromagnetic...
- Patent number 9,721,603
- Issue date Aug 1, 2017
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Daniel W. Olson
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
ACTIVE SPACING CONTROL FOR CONTACTLESS TAPE RECORDING
- Publication number 20240386912
- Publication date Nov 21, 2024
- L2 Drive Inc.
- Karim Kaddeche
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE
- Publication number 20240321307
- Publication date Sep 26, 2024
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Toru Watanabe
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE
- Publication number 20240321305
- Publication date Sep 26, 2024
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Masaya OHTAKE
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SLIDER WITH BOND PAD ARRANGEMENTS
- Publication number 20230230615
- Publication date Jul 20, 2023
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ACTIVE SPACING CONTROL FOR CONTACTLESS TAPE RECORDING
- Publication number 20230223045
- Publication date Jul 13, 2023
- L2 Drive Inc.
- Karim Kaddeche
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DUAL PURPOSE BOND PADS FOR HEAD SLIDERS AND METHODS OF PROCESSING A...
- Publication number 20210295863
- Publication date Sep 23, 2021
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC RECORDING AND READING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD
- Publication number 20200176020
- Publication date Jun 4, 2020
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Takuya Matsumoto
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE REVERSE BIASING HEAD ELEMENT TO COUNTER ELECTRO...
- Publication number 20200168247
- Publication date May 28, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Joey M. POSS
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DUAL PURPOSE BOND PADS FOR HEAD SLIDERS
- Publication number 20190333532
- Publication date Oct 31, 2019
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- James Gary Wessel
- B24 - GRINDING POLISHING
Information Patent Application
DATA STORAGE DEVICE REVERSE BIASING HEAD ELEMENT TO COUNTER ELECTRO...
- Publication number 20190295580
- Publication date Sep 26, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Joey M. POSS
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE AND MAGNETIC HEAD CONTROL METHOD
- Publication number 20190088277
- Publication date Mar 21, 2019
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Tetsuo Kuribayashi
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FULLERENE THIN FILM, RECO...
- Publication number 20170263277
- Publication date Sep 14, 2017
- SHOWA DENKO K.K.
- Sho TONEGAWA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT AND MITIGATE CONTAMINATION BETWEEN A...
- Publication number 20160275978
- Publication date Sep 22, 2016
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Qun Zang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC TAPE PROCESSING
- Publication number 20160196839
- Publication date Jul 7, 2016
- HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
- Mike Alan Holmberg
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM
- Publication number 20160133289
- Publication date May 12, 2016
- Elwha LLC
- Roderick A. Hyde
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ANALOG FRONT END FOR PROXIMITY SENSING OF TUNNELING CURRENT
- Publication number 20140368944
- Publication date Dec 18, 2014
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- ARUP POLLEY
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
HEAD TRANSDUCER WITH MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HE...
- Publication number 20140355150
- Publication date Dec 4, 2014
- Michael Thomas Johnson
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
HEAD TRANSDUCER WITH MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HE...
- Publication number 20140347760
- Publication date Nov 27, 2014
- Michael Thomas Johnson
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
Hard Disk Drive Bypass Channel Having A Close-Sided Voice Coil Motor
- Publication number 20140300988
- Publication date Oct 9, 2014
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Hajime Eguchi
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HEAD-MEDIA AND ASPERITY DETECTION
- Publication number 20140268410
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Gary Joseph Kunkel
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM
- Publication number 20140269239
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Elwha LLC
- Roderick A. Hyde
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ASPERITY AND HEAD-MEDIA CONTACT DETECTION USING MULTI-STAGE TEMPERA...
- Publication number 20140268419
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Gary Joseph Kunkel
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM
- Publication number 20140269243
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Elwha LLC
- Roderick A. Hyde
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM
- Publication number 20140254340
- Publication date Sep 11, 2014
- Roderick A. Hyde
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Contact Detection
- Publication number 20140254344
- Publication date Sep 11, 2014
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Dongming Liu
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
FLY HEIGHT CONTROL FOR HARD DISK DRIVES
- Publication number 20140185158
- Publication date Jul 3, 2014
- LSI Corporation
- Yan Li
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING VARIABLE-WIDTH TRACKS AND METHO...
- Publication number 20140153135
- Publication date Jun 5, 2014
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Masatoshi SAKURAI
- B82 - NANO-TECHNOLOGY
Information Patent Application
REFERENCE CIRCUIT WITH CURVATURE CORRECTION USING ADDITIONAL COMPLE...
- Publication number 20140022662
- Publication date Jan 23, 2014
- LSI Corporation
- Matthew Bibee
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
COVALENTLY BOUND MONOLAYER FOR A PROTECTIVE CARBON OVERCOAT
- Publication number 20130337194
- Publication date Dec 19, 2013
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Paul M. Jones
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DRIVE COMPRISING EXTENDED RANGE HEAD PROXIMITY SENSOR
- Publication number 20130301158
- Publication date Nov 14, 2013
- WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- DENNIS W. HOGG
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Control of flying height

Industry

Parent Industries

Current Industry

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Magnetic disk device

Active spacing control for contactless tape recording

Continuous dual path resistance detection for resistive temperature...

Slider with bond pad arrangements

Method of processing a slider

Slider air bearing designs with higher pressure and higher thermal...

Data storage device writing to defective data sector for fly height...

Selectively activating microactuators on a head gimbal assembly

Data storage device calibrating fly height actuator for multiple he...

Method of processing a slider

Load/unload ramp mechanism for reduced cracking

Data storage device reverse biasing head element to counter electro...

Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat si...

Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with heater and heat si...

High power ratio mode for TAMR drives

Magnetic recording and reading apparatus and magnetic recording method

Bumper pad design for TAMR drives

Data storage device reverse biasing head element to counter electro...

Magnetic head control capable of avoidance media bumps during seeki...

Methods, devices, and systems for establishing fly-height parameter...

Data storage device using performance margin to back off fly height

Heat assisted magnetic recording slider having a consistent close p...

Bond pad sharing for powering multiple writers of a recording head

Electronic system with head management mechanism and method of oper...

Writing adjacent tracks with different widths by varying fly height...

Determining gamma of a read/write head based on active gain control...

Resistive temperature sensors for improved asperity, head-media spa...

Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head o...

Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measurin...

Head-medium contact detection using an oscillating electromagnetic...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

ACTIVE SPACING CONTROL FOR CONTACTLESS TAPE RECORDING

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE

MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE

SLIDER WITH BOND PAD ARRANGEMENTS

ACTIVE SPACING CONTROL FOR CONTACTLESS TAPE RECORDING

DUAL PURPOSE BOND PADS FOR HEAD SLIDERS AND METHODS OF PROCESSING A...

MAGNETIC RECORDING AND READING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD

DATA STORAGE DEVICE REVERSE BIASING HEAD ELEMENT TO COUNTER ELECTRO...

DUAL PURPOSE BOND PADS FOR HEAD SLIDERS

DATA STORAGE DEVICE REVERSE BIASING HEAD ELEMENT TO COUNTER ELECTRO...

MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE AND MAGNETIC HEAD CONTROL METHOD

RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FULLERENE THIN FILM, RECO...

METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT AND MITIGATE CONTAMINATION BETWEEN A...

MAGNETIC TAPE PROCESSING

TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM

ANALOG FRONT END FOR PROXIMITY SENSING OF TUNNELING CURRENT

HEAD TRANSDUCER WITH MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HE...

HEAD TRANSDUCER WITH MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HE...

Hard Disk Drive Bypass Channel Having A Close-Sided Voice Coil Motor

RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR HEAD-MEDIA AND ASPERITY DETECTION

TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM

ASPERITY AND HEAD-MEDIA CONTACT DETECTION USING MULTI-STAGE TEMPERA...

TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM

TOPOGRAPHIC FEEDFORWARD SYSTEM

Contact Detection

FLY HEIGHT CONTROL FOR HARD DISK DRIVES

MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING VARIABLE-WIDTH TRACKS AND METHO...

REFERENCE CIRCUIT WITH CURVATURE CORRECTION USING ADDITIONAL COMPLE...

COVALENTLY BOUND MONOLAYER FOR A PROTECTIVE CARBON OVERCOAT

DISK DRIVE COMPRISING EXTENDED RANGE HEAD PROXIMITY SENSOR